Modelling and Forecasting Extreme Climate Events

A special issue of Earth (ISSN 2673-4834).

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Dear Colleagues,

As the world’s climate changes, extreme events are becoming more frequent and intense. Nowadays, the current state-of-the-art climate models consist of fundamental tools for analyzing and predicting climate and weather extremes. The accuracy of climate models’ simulations is high for long-duration extremes (mainly monthly or seasonal scales). In contrast, there is great insufficiency due to uncertainty around high-resolution and short-timescale extreme events. Hence, understanding the mechanisms leading to the occurrence of climate and weather extremes will be the basis for assessing their predictability and enabling their prediction.

This Special Issue of Climate is devoted to promoting advances in understanding, modeling, and predicting climate extremes. Pertinent examples of topics for this Special Issue include types of extreme; the frequency, intensity and duration of climate extremes; observed and projected climate extremes; short- and medium-range forecasts of weather extremes; modeling impacts of weather and climate extremes; statistical aspects of extremes; case studies of extreme events; and sensitivity experiments for extremes prediction.

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Keywords

  • extreme weather
  • climate change
  • extreme climate indices
  • extreme temperature
  • extreme precipitation
  • storms
  • heatwaves
  • drought
  • floods
  • hurricanes
  • extreme value theory

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Estimating the Statistical Significance of Cross–Correlations between Hydroclimatic Processes in the Presence of Long–Range Dependence
by Aristotelis Koskinas, Eleni Zaharopoulou, George Pouliasis, Ilias Deligiannis, Panayiotis Dimitriadis, Theano Iliopoulou, Nikos Mamassis and Demetris Koutsoyiannis
Earth 2022, 3(3), 1027-1041; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/earth3030059 - 15 Sep 2022
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Hydroclimatic processes such as precipitation, temperature, wind speed and dew point are usually considered to be independent of each other. In this study, the cross–correlations between key hydrological-cycle processes are examined, initially by conducting statistical tests, then adding the impact of long-range dependence, [...] Read more.
Hydroclimatic processes such as precipitation, temperature, wind speed and dew point are usually considered to be independent of each other. In this study, the cross–correlations between key hydrological-cycle processes are examined, initially by conducting statistical tests, then adding the impact of long-range dependence, which is shown to govern all these processes. Subsequently, an innovative stochastic test that can validate the significance of the cross–correlation among these processes is introduced based on Monte-Carlo simulations. The test works as follows: observations obtained from numerous global-scale timeseries were used for application to, and a comparison of, the traditional methods of validation of statistical significance, such as the t-test, after filtering the data based on length and quality, and then by estimating the cross–correlations on an annual-scale. The proposed method has two main benefits: it negates the need of the pre-whitening data series which could disrupt the stochastic properties of hydroclimatic processes, and indicates tighter limits for upper and lower boundaries of statistical significance when analyzing cross–correlations of processes that exhibit long-range dependence, compared to classical statistical tests. The results of this analysis highlight the need to acquire cross–correlations between processes, which may be significant in the case of long-range dependence behavior. Full article
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