
Climate Extremes and Their Implications for Impact and Risk Assessment
Description
Key Features
- Provides an overview about past, present and future changes in climate and weather extremes and how to connect that knowledge to impact and risk assessment under global warming
- Presents different approaches to assess societal-relevant impacts and risk of climate and weather extremes, including compound events, and the complexity of risk cascades and the interconnectedness of societal risk
- Features applications across a diversity of sectors, including agriculture, health, ecosystem services and urban transport
Readership
Professionals in climate and impact science and practice, risk assessment professionals as well as graduate students in the physical and social sciences in the context of climate change
Table of Contents
1. Climate extremes and their implications for impact modeling: A short introduction
Jana Sillmann and Sebastian Sippel
2. Climate scenarios and their relevance and implications for impact studies
Claudia Tebaldi and Brian O'Neill
3. Changes in climate extremes in observations and climate model simulations. From the past into the future
Markus Donat, Jana Sillmann and Erich Fischer
4. Multivariate extremes and compound events
Jakob Zscheischler, Bart van den Hurk, Philip Ward and Seth Westra
5. Bias-correction of climate model output for impact models
Alex J. Cannon, Claudio Piani and Sebastian Sippel
6. Anthropogenic changes in tropical cyclones and its impacts
Michael Wehner
7. Machine Learning Applications for Agricultural Impacts Under Extreme Events
Carlos Felipe Gaitan
8. Assessing the F rance 2016 extreme wheat production loss – evaluating our operational capacity to predict complex compound events
Marijn Van der Velde, Rémi Lecerf, Raphaël d’Andrimont and Tamara Ben-Ari
9. Probabilistic drought risk analysis for even-aged forests
Marcel Van Oijen and Miguel Angel de Zavala
10. Projecting health impacts of climate extremes: a methodological overview
Ana Maria Vicedo-Cabrera, Francesco Sera and Antonio Gasparrini
11. Climate extremes and their implications for impact modelling in transport
Maria Pregnolato, David Jaroszweski, Alistair Ford and Richard Dawson
12. Assessing Vulnerability and Risk of Climate Change
Bapon SHM Fakhruddin, Kate Boylan, Alec Wild and Rebekah Robertson
13. Data challenges limit our global understanding of humanitarian disasters triggered by climate extremes
Miguel D. Mahecha, Debarati Guha-Sapir, Jeroen Smits, Fabian Gans and Guido Kraemer
14. Adaptive capacity of coupled socio-ecological systems to absorb climate extremes
Anja Rammig, Michael Bahn, Carolina Vera, Thomas Knoke, Carola Paul, Björn Vollan, Karlheinz Erb, Richard Bardgett, Stefan Liehr, Sandra Lavorel and Kirsten Thonicke
15. Impacts of Extreme Events on Medieval Societies: Lesson from Climate History
Martin Bauch
16. Climate Extremes and Conflict Dynamics
Jürgen Scheffran
17. Avoiding impacts and impacts avoided - new frontiers in impact science for adaptation research and policy relevant assessments
Carl-Friedrich Schleussner and Benoit P. Guillod
18. Outlook: Challenges for societal resilience under climate extremesOutlook
Markus Reichstein, Dorothea Frank, Jana Sillmann and Sebastian Sippel
Product details
- No. of pages: 376
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2019
- Published: November 19, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780128148969
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128148952
About the Editors
Jana Sillmann
Affiliations and Expertise
Sebastian Sippel
Affiliations and Expertise
Simone Russo
Affiliations and Expertise
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