How is science helping us to improve life in the city? How does it help us to predict high-impact weather events, which today influence all of our lifes by strongly influencing travel, by strong dependence of renewable energy on clouds and winds, and by the dependence of agriculture and so many other parts of or modern society on the atmosphere, precipitation, rivers, clouds and wind?

Basic Science. First, basic science aims to understand the processes which are relevant to a particular event or phenomenon. For example, there is cloud microphysics, which describes how clouds are built. It combines physical and chemical insight with meteorological knowledge, and in all of it models are formulated and tested based in the language of mathematics.