Effects and Atmospheric Processes of Disaster Weather in the Context of Global Climate Change, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 554
Special Issue Editors
Interests: synoptic meteorology; mesoscale meteorology; climate change; energy conversion; cyclones and vortices; multiscale interaction; numerical prediction systems
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Interests: synoptic meteorology; mesoscale meteorology; weather forecating; climate change; weather and climate in Qinghai Xizang Plateau; rinstorm and severe convective weather; mesoscale weather analysis
Interests: renewable energy resource assessment; renewable energy power forecast; electricity meteorology research and application
Interests: land-air interaction; regional climate simulation; simulation of climatic water effect of human activities
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, as global climate change intensifies rapidly, the natural environment continues to deteriorate notably. In this context, disaster weather (i.e., weather that seriously threatens people’s lives and property and causes heavy losses to industry, agriculture, transportation, etc.) tends to appear with a higher frequency and a larger intensity, which poses a serious threat to the safety of people's lives and property. In order to reach the Sustainable Development Goals of the world, for most countries, there are growing demands (i) to evaluate the impacts of disaster weathers on the environment, industry, agriculture, and society in the context of global climate change, (ii) understand the formation/maintenance mechanisms of the disaster weathers, and (iii) develop methods to improve the forecast level of disaster weather. As disaster weather includes many types of weather (i.e., torrential rainfall, high winds, tornado, hail, cold wave, etc.) and they can occur all year round in every region all over the world, it is important to reach a comprehensive understanding of their effects under the influence of climate change and determine the key atmospheric processes governing their evolution, which is challenging.
Here, we would like to extend this invitation to potentially interested researchers in the field of disaster weather, global climate change, sustainable development, etc. The title of this Special Issue, ‘Effects and Atmospheric Processes of Disaster Weather in the Context of Global Climate Change’, tries to partly address the issues discussed above, which will be useful complements to existing studies. The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following relevant themes:
- Variational trends in extreme precipitation under global climate change and their underlying mechanisms;
- Variational trends in persistent heavy rainfall under global climate change and their possible mechanisms;
- Impacts of extreme weather and climate events and global change on the operation of renewable energy;
- Changes in renewable energy in the context of global climate change;
- Regional simulations of disaster weather in warm/cold seasons;
- Variational trends in high winds under global climate change and their associated mechanisms;
- Mesoscale vortex- or extratropical cyclone-associated disaster weather;
- Structural features and evolutions of the mesoscale convective systems that produce disaster weather;
- Changes in the environmental conditions of disaster weather under global climate change.
Prof. Dr. Shenming Fu
Dr. Yun Chen
Prof. Bo Wang
Dr. Liang Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- heavy rainfall
- high wind
- tornado
- hail
- cold wave
- mesoscale vortex
- extratropical cyclone
- dense fog
- mesoscale convective systems
- thunderstorms
- renewable energy
- climate change
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