Nick Watkins and David Stainforth gave presentations at the EGU General Assembly 2014, Vienna. Nick Watkins’ presentations were entitled ‘On the surprising robustness of the surplus run length and size ratio formulae, and their application to bursts in natural time series’ Abstract; ‘Bayesian analysis of heavy-tailed and long-range dependent Processes’ Abstract. David Stainforth gave three presentations: ‘Putting the weather back into climate’ Abstract; ‘How big should a climate model ensemble be? Lessons from a low dimensional system’ Abstract;  ‘User-relevant, threshold-specific observations of climate change’ Abstract.