Climate Impacts on Extreme Weather: Current to Future Changes on a Local to Global Scale

Climate Impacts on Extreme Weather: Current to Future Changes on a Local to Global Scale presents fundamentals and advances in the science of weather and climate extremes, building on the existing knowledge by using regional and global case studies. The book provides an analysis of historical and future changes, physical processes, measurements, space-time variability, socioeconomic impact, and risk management. It provides policy makers, researchers and students working in climate change with a thorough reference for understanding the diverse impacts of extreme weather and climate change on varying geographic scales. With contributions from experts across the globe, the book utilizes methods, case studies, modeling, and analysis to present valuable, up-to-date knowledge about the interaction of climate change, weather and the many implications of the changing environment.

• Cover image

• Title page

• Table of Contents

• Copyright

• Contributors

• Chapter 1: Understanding weather and climate extremes

• Abstract

• 1: Understanding weather and climate

• 2: Introduction to weather and climate extremes

• 3: Conclusion

• References

• Further reading

• Chapter 2: The role of climate datasets in understanding climate extremes

• Abstract

• 1: Introduction

• 2: CEIs: Definition, data quality control and methodology

• 3: Historical climate data for assembling the CEIs

• 4: Existing datasets of CEIs: Strengths and limitations

• 5: Conclusion and recommendations

• Appendix

• References

• Chapter 3: Advances in weather and climate extremes

• Abstract

• Acknowledgments

• 1: Introduction

• 2: Evolution of definitions of weather and climate extremes

• 3: Spatiotemporal scales of measurement of weather and climate extremes

• 4: Changes in frequency, intensity, duration of climate extremes

• 5: Innovations in weather and climate extremes prediction

• 6: Conclusion

• References

• Chapter 4: Uncertainties in daily rainfall over West Africa: Assessment of gridded products and station gauges

• Abstract

• 1: Introduction

• 2: Data and methods

• 3: Results and discussion

• 4: Summary and conclusion

• References

• Chapter 5: Features of regional Indian monsoon rainfall extremes

• Abstract

• Acknowledgment

• 1: Introduction

• 2: Data and methods

• 3: Results

• 4: Conclusions

• References

• Chapter 6: Historical changes in hydroclimatic extreme events over Iran

• Abstract

• 1: Introduction

• 2: Materials and methods

• 3: Results and discussion

• 4: Conclusions

• References

• Further reading

• Chapter 7: Intensification of precipitation extremes in the United States under global warming

• Abstract

• 1: Introduction

• 2: Data and methodology

• 3: Results and discussion

• 4: Summary and conclusion

• References

• Chapter 8: A review on observed historical changes in hydroclimatic extreme events over Europe

• Abstract

• 1: Climate variability in the past millennium

• 2: Precipitation extremes

• 3: Glacier mass balances

• 4: Floods

• 5: Droughts

• 6: Summary on past changes in hydroclimatic extremes

• References

• Chapter 9: Meteorological droughts in semi-arid Eastern Kenya

• Abstract

• Acknowledgments

• 1: Introduction

• 2: Materials and methods

• 3: Results and discussions

• 4: Limitations of the study

• 5: Conclusions

• References

• Chapter 10: Drought across East Africa under climate variability

• Abstract

• 1: Introduction

• 2: Materials and methods

• 3: Results and discussion

• 4: Conclusions

• References

• Chapter 11: Revisiting the impacts of tropical cyclone Idai in Southern Africa

• Abstract

• 1: Introduction

• 2: Materials and methods

• 3: Results

• 4: Discussion and conclusion

• References

• Chapter 12: Impacts of climate extremes over Arctic and Antarctic

• Abstract

• Acknowledgments

• 1: Introduction

• 2: The new face of Arctic and Antarctic

• 3: Conclusion

• References

• Chapter 13: The degradation of the Amazon rainforest: Regional and global climate implications

• Abstract

• 1: Introduction

• 2: Methods

• 3: Discussion

• 4: Recommendations

• 5: Conclusion

• References

• Chapter 14: Farmers’ perceptions of climate hazards and coping mechanisms in Fiji

• Abstract

• Acknowledgment

• 1: Introduction

• 2: Background

• 3: Methods

• 4: Results

• 5: Discussion and conclusion

• Appendix

• References

• Chapter 15: People's management of risks from extreme weather events in the Pacific Island region

• Abstract

• 1: Introduction

• 2: Climate change, natural hazards and disasters in Pacific Island countries and territories

• 3: The 2020/2021 cyclone seasons and covid-19 in the Pacific Islands region

• 4: Conclusion

• References

• Chapter 16: Management of extreme hydrological events

• Abstract

• 1: Introduction

• 2: Management measures

• 3: Challenges

• 4: Recommendations and a case study

• References

• Index