Extreme Hydroclimatic Events and Multivariate Hazards in a Changing Environment

Extreme Hydroclimatic Events in a Changing Environment reviews multi-variate hazards in a non-stationary environment. It covers both short and long term predictions from earth observations along with long-term climate dynamics, and models. It provides a detailed overview of remotely sensed observations, current and future satellite missions useful for hydrologic studies and water resources engineering, a review of hydroclimatic hazards. Given these tools, readers can improve their abilities to monitor, model, and predict these extremes with remote sensing.

Extreme Hydroclimatic Events in a Changing Environment additionally covers multi-variate hazards, like landslides, in case studies that analyze the combination of natural hazards and their impact on the natural and built environment using real examples. Additionally, it ties hydroclimatic hazards into the Sendai Framework, providing another set of tools for reducing disaster impacts.

• Emphasizes recent and future satellite missions to study, monitor, and forecast hydroclimatic hazards
• Each chapter includes a chapter summary with key concepts presented in the form of Q&A with answers provided at the end of the book
• Provides a complete overview and differentiation of remotely sensed products useful for monitoring extreme hydroclimatic and related events
• Provides real-life examples and applications of integrating remote sensing products to study complex multi-hydroclimatic hazards

Meteorologists, climatologists, hydrologists, agronomists, geologists, geographers, water resource scientists and managers, scientists and environmental managers focusing on climate change, researchers whose focus is on sustainability, land use, disaster management, risk-assessment, and risk reduction

Part I: Satellite observations for monitoring and forecasting hydroclimatic hazards
1.1 Precipitation (Rain +Snow)
1.2 Soil Moisture
1.3 Water level and storage
1.4 Vegetation
1.5 Topography

Part II: Hydroclimatic hazards
2.1 Floods
2.2 Droughts
2.3 Landslides and debris flow
2.4 Avalanches
2.5 Storm surge and sea level rise
2.6 Water pollution

Part III: Multi-hazards case studies
3.1 Water pollution and drought in California, US
3.2 Storm surge, sea level rise, and inland flooding in Bangladesh
3.3 Typhoon, floods, and landslides in China’s Yangtze River Delta
3.4 Avalanches, landslides, and debris flow in the Alps
3.5 Flash floods and landslides in the Rwenzori Mountains (Congo, Uganda)

Part IV: Hazards and community data
4.1 Communicating hydroclimatic hazards
4.2 Monitoring hazards through citizen science
4.3 Social media and hazards