Seminar and short-course at the University of León

From July 14 to 16, 2025, I had the opportunity to participate as a guest lecturer in the summer course “Mapping the Future: Geospatial Programming for Global Challenges”, organized by the University of León (Spain). The course brought together students and professionals interested in using programming tools to address environmental and societal challenges.

 I led two sessions on climate change attribution and atmospheric circulation analogues:

•  Climate change and extreme events: attribution methods and recent case studies

This lecture introduced the scientific basis of climate attribution, presenting an overview of methodologies used to assess the influence of climate change on recent heatwaves, droughts, and precipitation extremes. I showcased several case studies combining observational datasets and modeling approaches.

• Workshop: Attributing an extreme event to climate change using the analogue method

This hands-on session focused on the flow-analogue technique, where participants applied the R package climattR I developed to reconstruct a historical extreme event under different climatic backgrounds. We explored how atmospheric patterns can be matched to estimate changes in frequency and intensity due to climate warming.