Weather and Climate Extremes: Observations, Modeling, and Impacts

Dear Colleagues,

In recent decades, weather and climate extremes have attracted increasing attention because of their large societal impact on multiple sectors such as agriculture, economy, and human health. 

As highlighted in the 6th IPCC report, there is more and more evidence that climate change is associated with extreme events with increasing frequency, duration and intensity. These extreme events often cause significant damages to society and the environment and are considered as some of the most potentially harmful consequences of a changing climate.

Extreme weather and climate events occur in time scales from hours (e.g., convective storms that produce heavy precipitation) to days (e.g., tropical cyclones, heatwaves), seasons or years (e.g., droughts). Significant increasing trends in many extreme climate indicators have been reported over many regions using a variety of datasets and methods.

Studies of past and future changes in weather and climate extremes use various sources of data: observations, including in situ observations; remote sensing data; derived data products such as reanalysis; and ensembles of general or regional circulation models run under various climate scenarios.

This Special Issue covers all topics regarding the practices and challenges of modeling extreme weather climate events intended to enhance our current understanding and prediction of such extremes.

Submissions are encouraged across a wide range of topics, including, but not limited to, the assessment of weather and climatic extremes at local and regional scales and long-term changes and trends by analyzing:

• Historical records or simulations based on climate models;
• Synoptic and seasonal conditions generating climate extremes;
• Social, economic, and environmental impacts.

Dr. Constanta-Emilia Boroneant
Dr. Bogdan Antonescu
Dr. Feifei Shen
Guest Editors

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