Extreme Events in a Changing Climate: Impacts, Interactions, and Pathways to Resilience

Session ID#: 282753

Session Description:
Global change is intensifying the frequency, severity, and complexity of extreme weather and climate events, including storms, wildfires, floods, heatwaves, and droughts. These hazards generate cascading impacts across human health, infrastructure, ecosystems, and livelihoods, amplifying risks in interconnected systems.

This session invites interdisciplinary research integrating physical, social, and ecological perspectives to address four key questions: (1) How do compound and cascading hazards amplify vulnerabilities across energy, transport, food, and water systems? (2) How do extreme events interact with urban form and land use to influence health, air quality, and socioeconomic outcomes? (3) How can high-resolution ground observations, satellite data, AI-based emulators, and hybrid machine learning models improve impact prediction? (4) What strategies enhance resilience of critical systems.

We encourage open science and ecosystem–society feedback studies, advancing actionable pathways toward a resilient future.

Index Terms:

3307 Boundary layer processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3322 Land/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3329 Mesoscale meteorology [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3355 Regional modeling [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Primary Convener:  Vivek Kumar Singh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Grid Interactive Controls Group, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners:  Ankur Dixit, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Manmeet Singh, Western Kentucky University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Atmospheric Sciences, Kentucky, United States and Bhartendu Pandey, PhD, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, United States
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