Christoph von Matt

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Klimafolgenforschung

E-Mail
christoph.vonmatt@unibe.ch
Büro
512
Postadresse
Universität Bern
Geographisches Institut
Klimafolgen
Hallerstrasse 12
CH-3012 Bern

Droughts such as in recent years over Switzerland (e.g. 2015, 2018 and 2022) can have substantial impacts on a wide variety of sectors (e.g. agriculture). Drought indices for meteorological, agricultural and hydrological drought all point towards an increase of summer drought severity in Switzerland (CH2018-project).  Further, drought impacts can become disproportionally large when multiple regions or sectors are affected simultaneously. As droughts - compared to other natural hazards - tend to evolve over longer time scales, there is however also potential for taking effective adaptation measures.

Within the COM-DROUGHTS project, my research focuses on the simultaneous occurrence of multiple drought types across Switzerland in a compound-event framework based on the Swiss hydrological climate scenarios (Hydro-CH2018 project). The main goal is to provide crucial information on the occurrence of compound drought events in Switzerland to provide valuable information for drought adaptation measures.