Climate Extremes, the Past and the Future

Dear Colleagues,

Extreme weather and climate events are already happening, with changing regularity worldwide, because of climate change. As the climate has warmed, some types of extreme weather have become more frequent and severe: Heat waves are longer and hotter, heavy precipitation and flooding are more frequent, drought is more intense and more widespread.

In addition to advanced weather and climate extremes studies, there are many more challenges in optimally analyzing extreme climate observations and their impacts. This is because there are various shortcomings associated with observed and projected discrepancies of extreme climate data.

This Special Issue aims to summarize the current state-of-the-art in climate extremes by recording and understanding extremes, as well as proposing advance adaptation for managing risk of extreme events. Moreover, this Special Issue will consist of papers that integrate different approaches for evaluating characteristics of extremes or changes in extremes.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Changes in weather and climate extremes

            Temperature: heat waves, frost, etc.

            Precipitation: heavy precipitation, drought, floods, wind, etc.

• Risks of weather and climate extreme events and disasters
• Climate extremes and impacts
• Observed and projected changes in climate extremes
• Changes in phenomena related to climate extremes (monsoon, tropical cyclones, waves, etc.)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Christina Anagnostopoulou
Guest Editor

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