Description
1. Overview of extreme weather events, impacts and forecasting techniques. 1. Definition of extreme weather events Marina Astitha and Efthymios Nikolopoulos 2. Weather forecasting Marina Astitha, Linus Magnusson, Efthymios Nikolopoulos 3. Extreme weather forecasting in urban areas Mukul Tewari, Zhihua Wang, Dan Chen, Quang-Van Doan, Hiroyuki Kusaka, Prathap Ramamurthy and Pallav Ray 4. Wildfires and weather Branko Kosovc, Timothy W. Juliano, Amy DeCastro, Maria Frediani, Amanda Siems-Anderson, Pedro Jimenez, Domingo Muoz-Esparza, Jason C. Knievel and Masih Eghdami 2. Operational multiscale predictions of hazardous events Linus Magnusson, C. Prudhomme, F. Di Giuseppe, C. Di Napoli and F. Pappenberger 1. Introduction 2. Example case: 2015 European heatwave 3. Key factors of predictability 4. Hazard forecasting 5. Evaluation of hazardous events 6. Conclusion 7. Summary 3. Forecasting extreme weather events and associated impacts: Case Studies 1. Extreme heat Martina Calovi, Weiming Hu, Laura Clemente and Guido Cervone 2. Atmospheric rivers Forest Cannon and Luca Delle Monache 3. The hydrological Hillslope-Link Model for space-time prediction of streamflow: insights and applications at the Iowa Flood Center Ricardo Mantilla, Witold F. Krajewski, Nicolas Velasquez, Scott Small, Tibebu Ayalew, Felipe Quintero, Navid Jadidoleslam and Morgan Fonley 4. Social impacts: integrating dynamic social vulnerability in impact-based weather forecasting Galateia Terti, Sandrine Anquetin and Isabelle Ruin 5. Landslides and debris flows Dalia B. Kirschbaum and Sana Khan 6. Weather-induced power outages Diego Cerrai and Emmanouil Anagnostou
