
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
Introduction
Marina Astitha and Efthymios I. Nikolopoulos
1. Definition of extreme weather events and forecasting techniques
Marina Astitha and Efthymios I. Nikolopoulos
1.1 Definition of extreme weather events
Marina Astitha and Efthymios I. Nikolopoulos
1.2 Forecasting techniques
Marina Astitha and Efthymios I. Nikolopoulos
1.3 Extreme weather forecasting in urban areas
Mukul Tewari
1.4 Review of wildfire prediction
Branko Kosovic
2. Operational multi-scale predictions of hazardous events
Linus Magnusson
3. Forecasting extreme weather events and associated impacts: Case Studies
3.1 Extreme heat
Martina Calovi, Weiming Hu, Guido Cervone and Laura Clemente-Harding
3.2 Atmospheric Rivers
Forest Cannon
3.3 The Hydrological Hillslope-Link Model for Space-Time Prediction of Streamflow: Insights and Applications at the Iowa Flood Center
Ricardo Mantilla
3.4 Social Impacts: Integrating dynamic social vulnerability in impact-based weather forecasting
Isabelle Ruin and Galateia Terti
3.5 Landslides/debris flows
Dalia Kirschbaum
3.6 Weather-induced Power outages
Diego Cerrai and Emmanouil Anagnostou
4. Summary and the path forward
Marina Astitha and Efthymios I. Nikolopoulos
Product details
- No. of pages: 680
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2022
- Published: June 30, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128201244