DWD: Severe Weather Warnings

16. Jan 2024 | General

Snow and icy conditions are expected in the southern half of Germany tomorrow, January 17. The German Weather Service (DWD) has issued an official severe weather warning for ice and slippery conditions. Particularly in southern Germany, prolonged rainfall with...

Un-Spider Bonn International Conference on Space-based Solutions for Disaster Management – “Early Warning for All” #2

16. Jan 2024 | General

The UN-SPIDER programme of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs will be organizing the “UN-SPIDER Bonn International Conference Space-based Solutions for Disaster Management:  Early Warnings for All”.  This conference will be held in the...

Politics, Climatecrisis and Civil Protection

15. Jan 2024 | Climate Crisis meets Civil Protection

Based on the previous events, which examined the challenges and implications of the climate crisis for civil protection from multiple perspectives and on the basis of broad expertise, the penultimate event in the “Climate crisis meets civil protection”...

Member contribution on the physics behind cold and floods

12. Jan 2024 | General

Long periods of continuous rain, followed by several days of sub-zero temperatures. In the report Irre? “It’s physics.” After the floods may come the cold – and that threatens the building fabric, reports DKKV member Norbert Gebbeken, an...

Risk communication and societal adaptation

12. Jan 2024 | Climate Crisis meets Civil Protection, General

What is the difference between weather and climate and how are they connected? What are the interactions? How does effective risk communication work, and can we as a society still adapt to the consequences of the climate crisis? We addressed all of these questions...