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     · General informatiaon

       · Institutions

                ~ Governmental

                ~ Research & informational

                ~ NGOs & networks

         · Heat

           · Flooding

             · Hurricanes

               · Select readings on climate change & extreme weather

General information

Current Results: Weather & science facts

Extreme Weather & Climate Change  @ C2ES

Extreme weather @ CarbonBrief

Severe Weather Europe

Weather Channel

     The Climate 25

     United States of Climate Change

Weather Related Fatality and Injury Statistics [USA]

Institutions ~ Governmental

European Drought Observatory (EDO)

Extreme weather @ USDA Climate Hubs

ExtremeEarth

     · "...Environmental extremes are responsible for thousands of casualties and billions of € in

       damages in Europe annually. Societal risks associated with many of these extremes are poorly

       understood in today’s climate – even more so as climate changes. Knowledge gaps arise from

       the inadequacy of existing models, which are unable to capture keyphysical processes and  

       hence cannot fully incorporate an expanding palette of observations. ExtremeEarth will  

       deliver the methods needed to achieve a step change in simulation accuracy and data

       integration, to allow scientiststo understand the drivers of extremes and application communities

       to anticipate their impact. ExtremeEarth will develop the technologies for a required thousand-fold

       increase in computation, and fundamentally redesign workflows to dynamically expose the full

       information content of a new generation of models and data to users. "

Increased extreme weather events due to climate change @

US National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration

     NOAA Climate.gov

     National Weather Service

          NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction

               Climate Prediction Center

Institutions ~ Research & informational

Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes @ Scripps Institution of Oceanography            

Disaster Research Center @ University of Delaware

      Coastal Hazard, Equity, Economic Prosperity, and Resilience Hub

STORMS Extratropical Cyclone Atlas

Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive (IGRA)

The Observing System Research and Predictability Experiment (THORPEX)

     Wikipedia entry

World Weather Attribution

     · "...Working with scientists around the world, WWA quantifies how climate change influences the

       intensity and likelihood of an extreme weather event in the immediate aftermath of the extreme

       event using weather observations and computer modelling.... Since its inception in 2014, WWA has

       now performed more than 80 attribution studies on heatwaves, drought, wildfire, storms and

       extreme rainfall events around the world."

WXshift

Institutions ~ NGOs & networks

Communities Responding to Extreme Weather (CREW)

This is our story

Heat

Extreme Heat Resilience Alliance (EHRA)

Lives Saved Calculator @ Climate Impacts Lab

Flooding

Buy-In Community Planning

Flood-prepared communities @ Pew

Hurricanes

Category 5 hurricanes 1969-2018

Select readings on climate change & extreme weather

     · In reverse chronological order.

Experience of extreme weather affects climate change mitigation and adaptation responses

     · 2016  ~  Demski, C. et al.  ~  Climatic Change

     · Explores how the lived experience of dealing with extreme weather events can influence the

       salience

       of climate change and change attitudes towards methods of addressing climate change

     · Uses data on people who have experienced flooding and then turned to support more climate

       change-oriented policies, even ones not directly related to flooding

Attribution of extreme weather and climate-related events

     · 2015  ~  Stott, Peter A, et. al.   ~  WIREs Climate Change

     · Focuses on potential weaknesses in reliability of event attribution studies and how to address

       them

     · Discusses how event attribution studies can be applied to stakeholders or to making decisions at a

       state level

Human Contribution to the European Heatwave of 2003  

     · 2004  ~  Stott, P., Stone, D. & Allen, M.  ~  Nature

     · Regarded as one of the first official endeavors into event attribution studies

     · Discusses how anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions increased risk of an extreme weather event

       (heatwave) occurring

The potential impacts of climate variability & change on health impacts of extreme weather

   events in the United States

     · 2001  ~  G. Greenoughet al.  ~  Environmental Health Perspectives

     · Emphasizes the ways state infrastructure and human health are influenced and affected by

       extreme weather events

     · Discusses resource allocation methods and planning for extreme weather events on a national level

Trends in Extreme Weather and Climate Events

     · Subtitle: Issues Related to Modeling Extremes in Projections of Future Climate Change

     · 2000 ~  Gerald A. Meehl et al.  ~  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Association

     · Important resource detailing changes in extreme weather using future climate modeling computations

     · Acts as warning for need to change infrastructure to deal with extreme weather events