Large-Scale Climate Change and Implications for Weather Extremes
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Climatology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 2979
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Interests: hydroclimatology; hydrometeorology; climatology; hydrology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Large-scale climate change is our current reality; research in this field deals with issues of spatiotemporal climate variation, and the topic should be delved into with a focus on origin, driving force, causes, descriptions, interactions, implications, impact, teleconnections, and responses to global-, continental-, regional-, and local-scale weather extremes (e.g., torrential heavy storms, floods, droughts, heatwaves, and cold spells). The attribution of extreme weather events and their impacts have gained more attention in scientific communities, as well as in the media and public attention. These approaches have the power to bridge the gap between the seemingly abstract concept of climate change and personal and tangible experiences of weather extremes. Recently, we have experienced various weather extremes around the world, from disastrous typhoons in Asia and record-breaking heavy storms in the UK, to wildfires in the US and heatwaves in Pakistan and India. The result is mounting evidence that large-scale climate change is increasing the intensity and frequency of some types of extreme weather, especially those linked to the ocean, atmospheric circulation, and thermal forcing. In recognition of this emphasis, the open access journal Atmosphere is hosting a Special Issue to showcase the most recent findings related to large-scale climate change and extreme weather events in terms of the magnitude of the far-reaching effects, variability, teleconnectivity, and predictability of these events. This topic encompasses various empirical approaches, probabilistic and statistical aspects, and multivariate methods, including extreme value analysis methods, hydrometeorological statistics, comparative analysis on satellite and in situ observation data, and multivariate probability distributions. Topics of interest for the Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Impacts of climate change;
- Mitigation of climate change;
- Adaptation to climate change;
- Extreme weather risk assessments;
- Water resources and climate change;
- Agricultural sustainability and climate change;
- Urban sustainability and storm-water management under climate change;
- Land use and soil erosion under climate change.
Dr. Jai Hong Lee
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- extreme weather events
- large-scale climate change
- teleconnection
- climate indices
- forecasting
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