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Climate Extremes and Their Impacts

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Air, Climate Change and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 5088

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Peihua Qin

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State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (LASG), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
Interests: land surface model; regional and global climate model; groundwater; urbanization; climate extremes
Dr. Zhenhua Di

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State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Interests: evapotranspiration modeling; hydrological process simulation; land-atmosphere interaction; parameter optimization
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Dr. Jing Zou

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Institute of Oceanographic Instrumentation, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Qingdao 266001, China
Interests: regional climate simulation; ocean-atmosphere coupling; land surface simulation; atmospheric duct; dynamic downscaling; global land surface model
Dr. Shuang Liu

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Key Laboratory of Mountain Hazards and Earth Surface Processes, Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China
Interests: climate change; debris-flow monitoring and early warning; land surface model; machine learning
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Dr. Bin Liu

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School of Software Engineering, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu 610225, China
Interests: extreme temperature events; urban climate; land surface model; drought

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Climate extremes have received more attention due to their profound impacts on human safety, economics, and ecological environment. Natural disasters linked to climate extremes and climate-related risks have severe impacts on human safety. Thus, the factors and mechanisms that impact the occurrence, tempo-spatial distribution, intensity and frequency of various weather and climate extremes, such as floods, heat waves, cold spells, heavy precipitation, drought, etc., should be examined and revealed. Besides natural process, climate extremes are also affected by human activities, including human water regulation, crop fertilization and irrigation, fast urbanization, greenhouse gas emissions, etc., which should be addressed at a regional scale or globally. Under global warming conditions, different climate extremes as well as compound extremes present different tempo-spatial characteristics, and more should be done to face possible climate risks in the future. The hazards involved with climate extremes are impacted both by natural hazards and by population exposure to these hazards. To better estimate the effects of these extremes on human society, population exposure to these extremes should also be investigated. This Special Issue entitled “Climate Extremes and Their Impacts” focuses on the performance of climate models in simulating climate extremes, the impacts of human activities on climate extremes, the mechanisms of climate extremes, climate extreme-related nature disasters and detecting changes in future climate extremes.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Performance of climate models in simulating climate extremes;
  • Impacts of human activities on climate extremes;
  • Mechanisms of climate extremes;
  • Detecting changes in future climate extremes;
  • Climate extremes under 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C global warming scenarios;
  • Urban heat islands and climate extremes;
  • Climate extremes related nature disasters.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Peihua Qin
Dr. Zhenhua Di
Dr. Jing Zou
Dr. Shuang Liu
Dr. Bin Liu
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • climate extremes
  • human activities
  • urbanization
  • human water regulation
  • crops fertilization and irrigation
  • population exposure
  • climate drought

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Predicting Changes in Population Exposure to Precipitation Extremes over Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Urban Agglomeration with Regional Climate Model RegCM4 on a Convection-Permitting Scale
by Peihua Qin, Zhenghui Xie, Binghao Jia, Rui Han and Buchun Liu
Sustainability 2023, 15(15), 11923; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151511923 - 3 Aug 2023
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In this study, we have investigated changes in precipitation extremes and the population’s exposure to these extremes during 2091–2099 in China’s Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei (JJJ) region relative to the historical period of 1991–1999. First, the regional climate model RegCM4, with a hydrostatic dynamic core, was [...] Read more.
In this study, we have investigated changes in precipitation extremes and the population’s exposure to these extremes during 2091–2099 in China’s Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei (JJJ) region relative to the historical period of 1991–1999. First, the regional climate model RegCM4, with a hydrostatic dynamic core, was run for east Asia, including China, at a 12 km resolution for 1990–1999 and 2090–2099. This model is forced by global climate model (GCM) MPI-ESM1.2-HR under the middle shared socioeconomic pathways (SSP245). The first year was used as a model spinup. Then, the 12 km results were used to force RegCM4 with a non-hydrostatic dynamic core (RegcM4-NH) at a 3 km convection-permitting scale over the JJJ region during the historical and future periods. Future precipitation extremes were predicted to increase over the whole of China and its four subregions, while decreases were predicted over the JJJ region. This may partly be caused by lower increases in specific humidity over the JJJ region. The percentage contributions of the three components of total population exposure, i.e., changes in exposure due to changes in the population, precipitation extremes and the joint impact of the population and extremes, were then analyzed. Changes in the population and wet extremes were closely related to changes in the total exposure over the JJJ region. The population is the dominant factor that most impacts the total exposure to dry extremes. Finally, changes in future population exposure to precipitation extremes per degree of warming were quantified for the JJJ region. Full article
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The Impact of Climate Change on Financial Stability
by Lingke Wu, Dehong Liu and Tiantian Lin
Sustainability 2023, 15(15), 11744; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151511744 - 30 Jul 2023
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Climate risks and response policies have important impacts on a country’s macroeconomic development and financial stability. Based on the data from 2005 to 2020, this paper takes temperature deviation as the main representative variable of climate risk to study the impact of climate [...] Read more.
Climate risks and response policies have important impacts on a country’s macroeconomic development and financial stability. Based on the data from 2005 to 2020, this paper takes temperature deviation as the main representative variable of climate risk to study the impact of climate change on financial stability. The two-way fixed-effect results show that there is a negative relationship between temperature deviation and financial stability, and the influence of temperature deviation has a lag. However, the effects of temperature deviation on financial stability varied across the samples. The central provinces, non-coastal provinces, non-Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta provinces, and risk zone I had stronger temperature responses and financial stability was affected to a greater extent. The other regions experienced less of an impact. Full article
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