Prof Friederike Otto

@frediotto.bsky.social

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🇬🇧 🇪🇺 physicist, philosopher, lead https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/, author of Climate InJustice https://greystonebooks.com/collections/current-affairs-politics/products/climate-injustice, she/her

Three graphics showing months of the year on the x-axis, burned area on the y-axis for Canada as a whole and Ontario and the Northwest Territories separately. Highlighting the years 2026, 2025, 2024 and 2023 as well as the 2003-2022 mean.
Map of Southern France and Northern Spain with the burnt area in July highlighted as red polygons and the study areas around Madrid and Bordeaux outlined.
Timeseries of the highest 5-day wet bulb globe temperature over a region bounded by the box to 95°W to 67°W and 35°N to 50°N. 2026 by far highest value highlighted in pink.
A map of Europes with dots for all 854 cities analysed, pink dots for the cities that broke humid heat records, grey dots elsewhere. Pink dots conentrated over Southern UK, Germany, Poland and Benelux.
A picture of a bird flying out of a book
Two risk diagrams showing the hat risk for West Asia vis a vis South and South East Asia to highlight how in West Asia the conflict and displacement increases Vulnerability, Exposure and Response options.
two maps and two timeseries showing the extreme heat conditions in South Asia in April 2026.
A table of stadiums with information on the likelihood of games happening under extremely hot conditions.
two images describing the March heat wave, left a map showing temperature anomalies, right, the seasonal cycle and the anomalies this year
Timeseries of February rainfall in Juiz de Fora, highlighting the exceptionally high rain in 2026 of 752 mm, the second highest record in 1979 was only just above 400 mm.
Maps of the rainfall associated with two of the nine storms hitting the Mediterranean in January and February 2026.
a map of southern south America showing the location of burning fires with lots of red dots.
a map of Southern Africa highlighting the area of heavy rain
A map of southeastern Australia showing the temperature anomalies during the heatwave.
a world map with locations of extreme weather event studies by WWA in pink & yellow dots
map of Sri Lanka with heavy rainfall
screenshot of podcast recording with cat
maps of rainfall deficit & agricultural drought for the last 5 years over Iran and the Euphrates and Tigris basin.
maps of rainfall in Mexico during the rainy season and the flood inducing event
The wettest 5-day period in each location between 19-29 October 2025, which is related to the passage of Melissa. The track of Hurricane Melissa at 12 hour intervals is shown as a series of pink points. Data from MSWX
frequency of extreme heat in Mali & Burkina Faso under different warming scenarios
a graph of high temperatures, daily severity rating and radiative power, showing how heat and DSR built up before fires broke out
map of the Aegean coast depicting change in vapour pressure deficit due to climate change
Team Photo of WWA team
Sunset over the sea with a big rock in the sea, distorting the light reflecting from the setting sun
a map of rainfall over the study region
peace palace in the Hague in November in the dark
picture of a landslide in Medellin
bar chart showing deaths associate with extreme heat with and without climate change in 12 European cities
Two foxes in dry grass in early morning sun in London's Burgess Park
Map os South East Australia showing rainfall of over 100mm in the coastal NSW region
A map of very heavy rainfall over the Central Mississippi river valley between April 3rd and April 6th 2025
two graphs showing normal and 2025 weather conditions in South Korea
Book cover of Climateinjustice - why we need to fight global inequality to combat climate change by Friederike Otto. The cover is black with large pink & orange writing.
Joyce Kimutai & Fredi Otto at the beach in Cape Town in 2019 (which is not when we met but can't find photos from the 2016 meeting)
old man sitting in the heat in front of a pretty building in Kazakhstan
Rainfall measured over the orange alert region in Argentina 1-7 March 2025.
Timeseries of the wettest 5-days per year since 1950 in Southern Botswana. The 2025 event is by far the wettest on record.
Woman carrying water on her head
group picture with students at Geomar Kiel