Weather and Climate Extremes: Current Status and Emerging Challenges
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Meteorology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban and coastal extremes; meso-tropical; regional climate; interdisciplinary studies
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With record-breaking extreme weather events impacting vulnerable communities, the challenges posed by weather and climate extremes are significant. The total economic losses from natural disasters are globally increasing every year. This Special Issue is focused primarily on addressing the current status and future challenges with cutting-edge research, innovative approaches and transdisciplinary studies to enhance our understanding of extreme events, their links to our changing climate, the broader implications for society and the environment.
The special collection welcomes contributions from attribution studies, regional or global scale perspectives, modeling and forecasting efforts and socioecological impact assessments. Research topics include, but are not limited to, extreme rainfall, heatwaves, tropical storms, floods, wildfires, agriculture, food security, urban resilience, public health and livelihoods, as well as emerging challenges such as the integration of machine-learning techniques, compound and cascading extremes, climate-driven migration, infrastructure vulnerabilities, water–energy–food system stresses and the disproportionate impacts of climate extremes on communities.
Dr. Sen Chiao
Dr. Seung Hee Kim
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- weather and climate extremes
- extreme weather events
- climate-driven disasters
- compound and cascading extremes
- socioecological impacts
- vulnerable communities
- machine learning in atmospheric sciences
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