Weather and Climate Extremes | Journal - ScienceDirect
Weather and Climate Extremes provides academics, decision makers, international development agencies, nongovernmental organizations and civil society with publications on different aspects of research in weather and climate extremes, monitoring and early warning systems, assessment of vulnerability and impacts, developing and implementing ...
Extreme Weather and Climate Change - Science@NASA
As Earth’s climate changes, it is impacting extreme weather across the planet. Record-breaking heat waves on land and in the ocean, drenching rains, severe floods, years-long droughts, extreme wildfires, and widespread flooding during hurricanes are all …
2024: An active year of U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate ...
Jan 10, 2025 · The intensification of these and other more extreme weather-climate events are intersecting with areas experiencing high levels of health disparities, social vulnerabilities, and increased exposure due to population growth in hazard-prone areas. This convergence is resulting in prolonged and overlapping periods of disaster recovery.
Weather and Climate Extremes - Nature
Jun 30, 2023 · Weather and climate extremes have become more frequent and more intense under anthropogenic climate change. Such extremes have broad implications on a multitude of sectors, ranging from human...
Extreme weather and climate | npj Climate and Atmospheric …
Dec 10, 2018 · Humans and ecosystems struggle to cope with extreme weather and climate conditions. The articles in this collection examine a range of weather and climate phenomena that are extreme either...
Chapter 11: Weather and Climate Extreme Events in a Changing Climate …
This chapter assesses changes in weather and climate extremes on regional and global scales, including observed changes and their attribution, as well as projected changes.
World Weather and Climate Extremes Archive
The WMO World Weather and Climate Extremes Archive is a living source of information and provides historical and geographical perspectives of observed limits of extreme weather and climate events.
A decade of weather extremes | Nature Climate Change
Mar 25, 2012 · Here, we review the evidence and argue that for some types of extreme — notably heatwaves, but also precipitation extremes — there is now strong evidence linking specific events or an increase in...
Extreme weather - World Meteorological Organization
Nov 11, 2024 · Extreme temperatures of 40+°C and even 50°C are becoming increasingly frequent worldwide. Limiting global warming to 1.5°C instead of 2°C could significantly reduce the number of people affected by extreme weather. Every degree of global warming is projected to cause a 7% increase in extreme daily rainfall.
Global concurrent climate extremes exacerbated by ... - Science
Mar 10, 2023 · Here, we develop a statistical framework to test for spatial dependence and show widespread dependence of temperature and precipitation extremes in observations and model simulations, with more frequent than expected concurrence of extremes around the world.