Australian Hydroclimate Extremes in a Changing Climate
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Climatology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 308
Special Issue Editor
Interests: tropical variability; hydroclimate extremes; compound events; droughts; floods; ocean–atmosphere–land interaction; climate modeling; climate prediction; climate change; regional impacts
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Australia has become a hotspot of hydroclimate extremes and compounding hazards that trigger severe social distress in impacted communities and huge revenue losses. Some recent examples are the widespread 2021-22 flooding in the East Coast preconditioned by triple-dip persistent rain induced by La Nina and saturated catchment conditions, and the unprecedented 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires caused by concurrent drought and extreme heat combined with high wind and dry fuel loading. Given the exposure to frequent heatwaves, droughts, floods, bushfires, and cyclones, which are projected to intensify in a warmer climate, such cascading events will become more prevalent under climate change. However, scientific understanding, based on the complexity of identifying, simulating, predicting, or attributing the changes of such cascading events under climate change, remains limited. This Special Issue of Atmosphere aims to collate the contributions from hydrology and climate science communities on recent research advances in hydroclimate events and their impacts in regional Australia from compounding hazards in a changing climate. Original research articles on key characteristics and regional impacts based on observations, novel techniques (including machine learning), and underlying physical processes (including ocean–atmosphere–land interactions, hydrological/water cycles, climate modeling, event attribution, and CMIP-style future projections across various spatio-temporal scales), among other things, are invited.
Dr. Sur Sharmila
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- compound events
- climate change
- extreme event attribution
- hydroclimate extremes
- hydrological cycle
- land–atmosphere interaction
- regional impacts
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