The past 15 years has been characterized by a high density of record-breaking weather extremes in Europe. These include … 2009/2010 and 2010/2011. Inspired by the rising trends in weather-related damages worldwide and the studies on the topic … carried out in overseas, the EC funded the sister projects such as Weather Extremes-Assessing the Impacts on Transport and …

weather phenomena and their projections to the future in relation to their impacts and implications to the European transport … present within the European area. The three projects (that ran from 2009 and 2012) are as follows: (1) EWENT (Extreme Weather …—<ExternalRef> <RefSource>www.ecconet.eu</RefSource> <RefTarget Address="http://www.ecconet.eu" TargetType="URL"/> </ExternalRef>); (3) WEATHER …

WISE project. This project aims at investigating the effects and the impacts of extreme weather events, particularly very … the perception of weather impacts through questionnaire survey to the general public. With regard to the individuals … impacts of weather extremes on their daily habits at work, at home, in their leisure activities, on their transport patterns …

2015). In the literature, so far, impacts of extreme weather events were estimated by using (1) Disaster Impact Models (DIM … to assess economic effects in detail (2). In our approach we integrate recurring extreme weather events as “shocks” into … the model to answer the question if and how a rising number of extreme weather events in the future may influence Germany …

estimates of the income and short run weather sensitivity of air conditioner adoption across urban areas for 29 Chinese … provincial entities. We show that the adoption decision displays significant income and weather sensitivity in the short run …