Enhancing the Output of Climate Models for the Assessment of Climate Change Impacts

Dear Colleagues,

The assessment of climate change impacts involves various research fields including not only climate disciplines but also different engineering branches, like civil, industrial and infrastructure engineering.

Appropriate procedures, able to deal with the inherent uncertainty of climate projections, are needed to assess the evolution over time of climatic variables and provide more sound and robust predictions at local scale. The development of such methodologies is thus fundamental to define adaptation strategies as well as to increase the resilience of structures and infrastructures. As the runs of climate models require huge computational time, the number of available outputs is limited, which makes problematic the direct quantification of relevant statistical parameters and the application of classical methods for the uncertainty quantification. The enhancement of the climate models’ output is therefore a key objective of the modern research on climate change impacts.

In this Special Issue, we are seeking for high-quality original research articles, focused on state-of-the-art and innovative techniques for the analysis of climate models’ output addressing: the estimation of future changes of climate extremes, the major sources of uncertainties in climate projections, the development of suitable adaptation strategies for design of resilient engineering structures and infrastructures, and the assessment of climate change impacts on structural safety and reliability.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• climate change impact studies
• uncertainty in climate projections
• weather generation techniques
• calibration strategies for the analysis of climate model outputs
• evaluation of future climate extremes
• climatic actions on structures
• adaptation strategies for structural design
• reliability of existing structures and infrastructures under changing climate

Dr. Paolo Formichi
Dr. Pietro Croce
Dr. Filippo Landi
Guest Editors

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• climate change
• climate models
• climate impacts
• resilience
• adaptation