A049
Decision-Relevant Understanding of Impactful Weather and Extremes
Decision-Relevant Understanding of Impactful Weather and Extremes
Session ID#: 250920
Session Description:
The frequency and intensity of many impactful weather and extreme phenomena have increased across various timescales. Changing characteristics for extremes lead to changing exposure, resilience, and impacts. Therefore, timely and accurate predictions of these events can potentially reduce exposure, enhance resilience, and mitigate impacts by providing decision support to national and local application sectors. In this session, we invite contributions focusing on high-impact weather extremes research of direct utility to practitioners and their communities. Extremes of interest include but are not limited to, extreme hot/cold temperatures, ice storms, extreme winds, heavy precipitation, droughts, floods, extreme storms, and compound events (e.g., hot-dry events, temporally or spatially compounding events). Research that includes collaborations with operational and application sector users is particularly welcome. Such impacts-relevant research may be operational and observational, involve regional and global datasets, examine prediction, predictability, detection, and attribution of the extreme, and explore changes in the statistics of extremes.
Index Terms:
1803 Anthropogenic effects [HYDROLOGY]
1812 Drought [HYDROLOGY]
1821 Floods [HYDROLOGY]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]
Primary Convener: Abhishekh Kumar Srivastava, University of California Davis, Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States
Conveners: Paul Aaron Ullrich, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, PCMDI, Livermore, United States, Richard Grotjahn, University of California Davis, Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, United States and Seung Hun Baek, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States
Student/Early Career Convener: Raymond Sukhdeo, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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