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# Global Extremes Platform (GEP)

## Sitemaps

- [XML Sitemap](https://gep.wcrp-rifs.org/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website.

## Pages

- [Home](https://gep.wcrp-rifs.org/) - Global Extremes Platform Builds upon and integrates activities on weather and climate extremes across WCRP Global Extremes Indices The Global Extreme Indices Data Portal is online, providing indices at regional scale. News The GEP Working Group on the Annual Assessment of Weather and Climate Extremes (AWCE) held its first in-person meeting from May
- [Coordinating Group](https://gep.wcrp-rifs.org/coordinating-group/) - Coordinating Group A Coordinating Group, which currently consists of GEP co-chairs, the director of GEP-SU, co-chairs of GEP working groups, and a representative from RIfS SSG, manages the daily activities of GEP. The members include: GEP co-chairs: Xuebin Zhang, Sonia I. Seneviratne GEP-SU director: Botao Zhou Co-chairs of GEP working groups: Event Attribution Working
- [Event Attribution](https://gep.wcrp-rifs.org/event-attribution/) - Working Group on Event Attribution Facing the increasing demand for event attribution information, our Working Group on Event Attribution has a mandate to lead strategic discussion within the community on the direction of event attribution research, to review existing literature and practices, and to develop technical guidance on the methods and interpretation of event
- [News & Opportunities](https://gep.wcrp-rifs.org/news/) - Opportunities 2026 Share Your Insights – Complete the WCRP GEP Survey on Extreme Event Attribution! This survey is now closed. The GEP Working Group on the Annual Assessment of Weather and Climate Extremes (AWCE) held its first in-person meeting from May 26 to 28 in ETH Zurich, Switzerland. The 1st Pan-RIfS Workshop was successfully
- [Annual assessment of Weather and Climate Extremes (AWCE)](https://gep.wcrp-rifs.org/awce/) - Working Group on Annual assessment of Weather and Climate Extremes (AWCE) In view of the current state-of-the-art, there is a need for a new type of policy-relevant retrospective scientific syntheses on the state of weather and climate extremes and their attribution and with a comprehensive global focus, better encompassing the Global South than existing
- [EEA survey](https://gep.wcrp-rifs.org/eea-survey/) - WCRP GEP Survey on Extreme Event Attribution The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Working Group on Event Attribution under the Global Extremes Platform (GEP) of Regional Information for Society (RIfS) is conducting a survey of those involved in extreme event attribution (EEA). The study aim is to understand who is working on EEA and
- [Open Call for Self-Nomination for the Membership of the Global Extremes Platform (GEP) Working Group on Event Attribution](https://gep.wcrp-rifs.org/open-call-working-group-on-event-attribution/) - Open Call for Self-Nomination for the Membership of the Global Extremes Platform (GEP) Working Group on Event Attribution This call is now closed. This is an open call to fill vacant position(s) within the GEP Working Group on Event Attribution. This open call is targeted at the Global South and/or other underrepresented regions. GEP
- [Climate Indices Review](https://gep.wcrp-rifs.org/climate-indices-review/) - Climate Indices Review WMO (the World Meteorological Organization) and WCRP (the World Climate Research Program) have jointly formed an ad-hoc scientific working group to review the use of climate indices. The team is formed jointly by experts from the two organisations with a steering group currently consisting of seven members: Blair Trewin (Australian Bureau of Meteorology, WMO)
- [Contact Group](https://gep.wcrp-rifs.org/contact-group/) - Contact Group for Weather and Climate Extremes Research on weather and climate extremes spreads across (almost) all WCRP Core Projects and Lighthouse Activities, but there is no effective communication mechanism among groups on relevant activities. To foster communication within WCRP on activities related to weather and climate extremes, GEP has newly established a Contact
- [Support Unit](https://gep.wcrp-rifs.org/support-unit/) - Support Unit With support from the Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology (NUIST), the WCRP Global Extremes Platform Support Unit (GEP-SU) was officially set up on November 28, 2022 in Nanjing, China. Apart from NUIST, it is also financially supported by the State Key Laboratory of Climate System Prediction and Risk Management. GEP-SU
- [Working Group on Event Attribution-Terms of Reference](https://gep.wcrp-rifs.org/tor-event-attribution/) - Global Extremes Platform (GEP) Working Group on Event Attribution Draft Terms of Reference The Working Group on Event Attribution aims to support activities that will: Provide best practice guidelines to ensure that event attribution information globally, particularly in an operational context, is clear, robust, traceable, and consistently interpreted Increase the capacity for event attribution in
- [Leadership](https://gep.wcrp-rifs.org/leadership/) - Leadership A Coordinating Group, which currently consists of GEP co-chairs, the director of GEP-SU, co-chairs of GEP working groups, and a representative from RIfS SSG, manages the daily activities of GEP.
- [Concept note for Working Group for Annual Updates in Weather and Climate Extremes under the Global Extremes Platform (GEP Annual Updates Working Group)](https://gep.wcrp-rifs.org/awce_concept/) - Concept note for Working Group for Annual Updates in Weather and Climate Extremes under the Global Extremes Platform (GEP Annual Updates Working Group) Sonia I. Seneviratne, Dominik Schumacher, Mathias Hauser, Qiaohong Sun, Xuebin Zhang Climate impacts are largely driven by weather and climate extremes such as floods, droughts, and heatwaves. Human-induced greenhouse gas emissions have
- [About](https://gep.wcrp-rifs.org/about/) - About GEP The Global Extremes Platform (GEP) builds upon and integrates activities on weather and climate extremes across WCRP. It is designed to make a contribution to improving the ways of delivering science, information, and data concerning extremes in a well-synthesized format for the climate research community, policymakers, and other users of climate science.
- [Open Call for Self-Nomination for the Membership of the Global Extremes Platform (GEP) Working Group on Annual assessment of Weather and Climate Extremes (AWCE)](https://gep.wcrp-rifs.org/open-call-working-group-on-awce/) - Open Call for Self-Nomination for the Membership of the Global Extremes Platform (GEP) Working Group on Annual assessment of Weather and Climate Extremes (AWCE) GEP overview The Global Extremes Platform (GEP, https://gep.wcrp-rifs.org) builds upon and integrates activities on weather and climate extremes across the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). It is designed to contribute
- [Global Extreme Indices](https://gep.wcrp-rifs.org/global-extreme-indices/) - Global Extreme Indices Data Portal The Global Extreme Indices Data Portal is created and maintained by the Support Unit of Global Extremes Platform (GEP), supported by Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST). The portal provides access to ETCCDI extreme indices data products derived from station observations, reanalysis datasets, CMIP6 model outputs, and potentially
- [Workshops](https://gep.wcrp-rifs.org/workshops/) - Workshops, Meetings and Seminars International Workshop on Weather and Climate Extreme Events, 25 November 2024 in Nanjing, China Inaugural Meeting of the WCRP GEP Working Group on Event Attribution, 26-29 November 2024 in Nanjing, China (Read the Workshop Summary) Extreme Weather and Climate Seminar for Climate Change Adaptation, 3 June 2023 in Nanjing, China Workshop
- [Contact Us](https://gep.wcrp-rifs.org/contact-us/) - Contact Us For all general inquiries, please contact us at GEP-SU@nuist.edu.cn.
- [Activities](https://gep.wcrp-rifs.org/activities/) - What kind of activities does GEP do?
- [Working Groups](https://gep.wcrp-rifs.org/working-groups/) - GEP has newly constituted a Working Group on Event Attribution.

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## Block Library

- [page_contents](https://gep.wcrp-rifs.org/bg-block/page_contents/) - Pre-workshop readingFind a few short readings, to set a common foundation.Invitation to discussion forumIntroduce yourself and get to know the other workshop participants.Submit narrativesDo you have a practical experience coming across a non-congruence in regional climate information? What did you learn from this?