
Extreme Weather Forecasting
Description
Key Features
- Reviews recent developments in numerical prediction for better forecasting of extreme weather events
- Covers causes and mechanisms of high impact extreme events and how to account for these variables when forecasting
- Includes numerous case studies on successful forecasting, outlining why they worked
Readership
Atmospheric Sciences. Earth Sciences, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Sciences
Table of Contents
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1. Overview of extreme weather events, impacts and forecasting techniques.
1. Definition of extreme weather events
Marina Astitha and Efthymios Nikolopoulos
2. Weather forecasting
Marina Astitha, Linus Magnusson, Efthymios Nikolopoulos
3. Extreme weather forecasting in urban areas
Mukul Tewari, Zhihua Wang, Dan Chen, Quang-Van Doan, Hiroyuki Kusaka, Prathap Ramamurthy and Pallav Ray
4. Wildfires and weather
Branko Kosovíc, Timothy W. Juliano, Amy DeCastro, Maria Frediani, Amanda Siems-Anderson, Pedro Jimenez, Domingo Muñoz-Esparza, Jason C. Knievel and Masih Eghdami2. Operational multiscale predictions of hazardous events
Linus Magnusson, C. Prudhomme, F. Di Giuseppe, C. Di Napoli and F. Pappenberger
1. Introduction
2. Example case: 2015 European heatwave
3. Key factors of predictability
4. Hazard forecasting
5. Evaluation of hazardous events
6. Conclusion
7. Summary3. Forecasting extreme weather events and associated impacts: Case Studies
1. Extreme heat
Martina Calovi, Weiming Hu, Laura Clemente and Guido Cervone
2. Atmospheric rivers
Forest Cannon and Luca Delle Monache
3. The hydrological Hillslope-Link Model for space-time prediction of streamflow: insights and applications at the Iowa Flood Center
Ricardo Mantilla, Witold F. Krajewski, Nicolas Velasquez, Scott Small, Tibebu Ayalew, Felipe Quintero, Navid Jadidoleslam and Morgan Fonley
4. Social impacts: integrating dynamic social vulnerability in impact-based weather forecasting
Galateia Terti, Sandrine Anquetin and Isabelle Ruin
5. Landslides and debris flows
Dalia B. Kirschbaum and Sana Khan
6. Weather-induced power outages
Diego Cerrai and Emmanouil Anagnostou
Product details
- No. of pages: 358
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2022
- Published: October 11, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780128202432
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128201244