Special Issue "Assessment, Simulations, and Prediction of Climate Extremes"
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Climatology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2023 | Viewed by 755
Special Issue Editor
Interests: hydrological modelling; climate extremes; drought; uncertainty analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The world is living through climate change, and some of that evidence comes from computer models, from improved physical understanding of various planetary processes, and from direct observations of the way in which the world has changed thus far. A wide range of climate extreme events have occurred, causing deep global concern. Some typical examples of such events are the European heatwaves in 2010, 2015, 2017, and 2019; the Amazon droughts in 2010; the UK storm in early 2014; the extremely heavy rainfall in China in 2021; and the flood in Pakistan in 2022. What is more, the rarer the event, the higher the likelihood that it will become more frequent under the condition of continuous temperature rise in the future.
The Sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC warns that, even at 1.5 °C warming, we will witness climate extreme events, such as heavy rainfalls, floods, heatwaves, droughts, etc., that are more severe than any that have been observed before. This is true at a global level as well as a regional one. Climate extremes will probably become more variable within seasons, years, and regions. Assessment, simulations, and prediction of climate extremes play a crucial role in understanding and mitigating the impacts of climate change.
For this Special Issue, we welcome papers that focus on the assessment, simulations, and prediction of climate extremes. Contributions include but are not limited to:
- Drought and flood assessment, simulations, and predictions
- New modelling approaches of climate extremes
- Climate extremes modelling using big data or multisource data
- Uncertainties in modelling and prediction of climate extremes
Dr. Zhanling Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- climate extremes
- flood
- drought
- climate change
- heavy rainfall
- hydrological modelling
- uncertainty analysis
- big data
