Drought and Extreme Events Caused by Climate Changes
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water and Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 3708
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues
Extreme meteorological events deeply impact economies and societies. Weather-related disasters are already increasingly undermining economic growth and threatening human lives in populations around the world. Moreover, due to the variations of climate conditions, droughts are expected to increase in frequency and intensity globally because of climate change. It is hence fundamental for climate change adaptation plans to define new approaches for the attribution, localization and identification of extreme events.
The major difficulty arises from the intrinsic variability of the climate system. In fact, a change in the frequency and magnitude of extremes can be detected only over a large enough sample, i.e., a sample that represents the climatology. The climatological conditions are generally calculated over 30 years; over a shorter time-scale, a fluctuation of the climate system might be confused with a systematic change in the frequency of extremes. It is indeed necessary to develop theoretical methods to spot statistically significant changes in extreme events.
Within this framework, the definition of new methodologies for extreme event detection, location, attribution and assessment is necessary. At the same time, the development of new indexes for identification of droughts and other climate extremes is essential in order to take into consideration the effects due to the combination of contemporaneous events which can results in extremes.
In the water sector, as in others, the application of novel theories and approaches founded on mathematical analysis and new artificial intelligence techniques are strongly encouraged for extreme event detection and localization.
Therefore, the present Special Issue entitled “Drought and Extreme Events Caused by Climate Changes” aims to publish original research or review papers on identification, localization, attribution and measurement of extreme events caused by climate change and associated methodologies and techniques.
The overall scope includes up-to-date developments on the current state of knowledge of theoretical, applied, observational and methodological studies in which novel approaches and strong results are presented and discussed. Specifically, the topics of this Special Issue include, but are not restricted to, the following:
- Drought and its relationship to climate change;
- Extreme event identification, localization and attribution;
- Artificial intelligence techniques applied to drought and extreme events;
- Extreme events in climate change and water cycle dynamics;
- Theoretical approaches for extreme event statistics in climate science.
Looking forward to receiving your contribution.
Dr. Marcello Petitta
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- extreme events
- drought
- water
- tipping points
- machine learning
- mathematical modelling of extremes
- water cycle
- precipitation extremes
- extreme events statistical methods
