Climate Impacts on Extreme Weather
eBook - ePub

Climate Impacts on Extreme Weather

Current to Future Changes on a Local to Global Scale

  1. 300 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Climate Impacts on Extreme Weather

Current to Future Changes on a Local to Global Scale

About this book

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. - Offers comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of climate research related to extremes - Includes both regional and global case studies for applying research to practice, providing a deeper understanding of the science - Presents both observed and projected findings using primary research and models

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Information

Publisher
Elsevier
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9780323884563
eBook ISBN
9780323904209
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Environmental Science
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Copyright
  5. Contributors
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. List of Tables
  8. Chapter 1 : Understanding weather and climate extremes
  9. Chapter 2 : The role of climate datasets in understanding climate extremes
  10. Chapter 3 : Advances in weather and climate extremes
  11. Chapter 4 : Uncertainties in daily rainfall over West Africa: Assessment of gridded products and station gauges
  12. Chapter 5 : Features of regional Indian monsoon rainfall extremes
  13. Chapter 6 : Historical changes in hydroclimatic extreme events over Iran
  14. Chapter 7 : Intensification of precipitation extremes in the United States under global warming
  15. Chapter 8 : A review on observed historical changes in hydroclimatic extreme events over Europe
  16. Chapter 9 : Meteorological droughts in semi-arid Eastern Kenya
  17. Chapter 10 : Drought across East Africa under climate variability
  18. Chapter 11 : Revisiting the impacts of tropical cyclone Idai in Southern Africa
  19. Chapter 12 : Impacts of climate extremes over Arctic and Antarctic
  20. Chapter 13 : The degradation of the Amazon rainforest: Regional and global climate implications
  21. Chapter 14 : Farmers’ perceptions of climate hazards and coping mechanisms in Fiji
  22. Chapter 15 : People's management of risks from extreme weather events in the Pacific Island region
  23. Chapter 16 : Management of extreme hydrological events
  24. Index
  25. A

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