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Contents below:
· General informatiaon
· Institutions
~ Governmental
~ Research & informational
~ NGOs & networks
· Heat
· Flooding
· Hurricanes
General information
Current Results: Weather & science facts
Extreme Weather & Climate Change @ C2ES
United States of Climate Change
Weather Related Fatality and Injury Statistics [USA]
Institutions ~ Governmental
European Drought Observatory (EDO)
Extreme weather @ USDA Climate Hubs
· "...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 @ USNOAA Climate.gov
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
Institutions ~ NGOs & networks
Communities Responding to Extreme Weather (CREW)
Heat
Extreme Heat Resilience Alliance (EHRA)
Lives Saved Calculator @ Climate Impacts Lab
Flooding
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
· 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
Extreme weather & flooding
