Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Climatology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (7 March 2023) | Viewed by 4996
Special Issue Editors
Interests: statistics of extremes; risk; multi-hazard; compound effect; aggregation
Interests: coastal storm hazards; probabilistic hazard analysis; flood risk assessment; coastal-inland compound flooding; extreme storm climatology; climate change; stochastic engineering design
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is commonly known today that weather and climate extremes are at the top of the list of global risks in terms of their likelihood and their impact on both the environment and human activity. Weather and climate variables such as temperature, rainfall and atmospheric pressure are drivers for hazards such as floods, tropical and extratropical cyclones, heat spells, droughts and fires, etc. The extreme state can be due to a single variable, but in some—if not most—cases, it is the result of a combination of variables, not all of which are necessarily extreme. Here, the combination of events/hazards that lead to an extreme impact is referred to as a compound event/multi-hazard. It is therefore useful to examine the safety of strategic structures and facilities based on a multi-hazard approach, considering the extreme events the structures and facilities could be subjected to during their lifetime. The probabilistic multi-hazard assessment of the risk is therefore a key issue in structural and environmental safety.
The overall aim of this Special Issue is to investigate and bring together the most recent research studies and models focused on multi-hazard and compound weather events (e.g., coastal–fluvial–pluvial floods, heat spells–droughts–fires, etc.).
Obviously, the impact of climate change and variability makes this especially challenging. The warming observed over the past few decades is unprecedented in climate records all over the world and some recent observational studies point to increasing trends in weather mean and extreme events, while projections seem to indicate that the frequency, intensity and duration of climate and hydrometeorological hazards will increase in the future.
Research, applications, technology, and innovation in the field of weather and climate multi-hazards are therefore needed now more than ever to mitigate and solve this issue. For this Special Issue, we invite hydrologists and scientists working in climatology hydrometeorology to contribute original research articles, as well as reviews, relating to extreme weather and climate events in a multi-hazard framework. This Special Issue aims to gather contributions in the areas of understanding and modeling the compound events. Submissions are encouraged to cover a wide range of topics, which may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Extreme temperatures and heat spells;
- Droughts;
- Coastal, fluvial and pluvial floods;
- Combining surges and waves to characterize coastal risks;
- High wind.
Dr. Yasser Hamdi
Dr. Norberto C. Nadal-Caraballo
Dr. Sylvie Parey
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- weather and climate extremes
- compound event
- multi-hazard
- climate change
