(1) Significance and Robustness of Climate Change Signals for Extreme Indices over Germany in a Convection-permitting Climate Model Ensemble (2) Advancing Dust Emission Representation for Kilometer-Scale Global Modeling in ICON-HAM-lite (3) Extreme fire weather in a changing climate: Projections for Europe based on bias adjusted EURO-CORDEX simulations (4) Near-real-time probabilistic Hail Detection based on polarimetric radar quantities and environmental conditions using machine learning methods