Extreme Weather
eBook - PDF

Extreme Weather

  1. 152 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Extreme Weather

About this book

The term extreme weather normally conjures up thoughts of massive storms or heat waves or overtly cold temperatures. These are all examples of what we might consider as weather events that occur out of the ordinary or what is regarded as the normal pattern of calm, heat, cold, dry, or wet conditions for one season of the year or another. The point is that if we consider an oscillation of data points in a weather pattern and plot a mean through it, extreme weather can be observed as a perturbation in a distribution of climatic events over time. These events may be short-lived, such as a wind gust occurrence, or of longer duration, such as heavy rain leading to flooding. Importantly, once initiated, a perturbation event has an associated consequence, which usually requires human intervention to rectify the event's consequences.

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Table of contents

  1. Extreme Weather
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Chapter 1 Comparison of the Temporal Variability of Maximum Daily Temperatures for Summer Months in Relation to El Nino Events in Southern Québec
  5. Chapter 2 Influence of Climate Regime Shift on the Abrupt Change of Tropical Cyclone Activity in Various Genesis Regions
  6. Chapter 3 The Highest Geomagnetic Storms of the Solar Cycle Observed at Ground Level
  7. Chapter 4 Rainfall Distribution in Landfalling Tropical Cyclones
  8. Chapter 5 Extreme Weather Events in Ukraine: Occurrence and Changes
  9. Chapter 6 Heat Waves: Health Effects, Observed Trends and Climate Change
  10. Chapter 7 Malawi’s Experience with Weather Index Insurance as Agricultural Risk Mitigation Strategy Against Extreme Drought Events