The Newcastle team draws on expertise from the Centre for Climate and Environmental Resilience — of which Prof. Fowler is Director — and Prof. Fowler’s Extreme Weather research group, which is based in the School of Engineering at Newcastle University. The Centre for Climate and Environmental Resilience is a world-leading, transdisciplinary centre of excellence which promotes solutions-driven research to increase societal resilience to increasing climate and environmental risks. The Extreme Weather group has a long-term strategic partnership with the UK Met Office and expertise in a wide range of extreme weather phenomena across mid-latitude and tropical regions.