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Title Climate extremes and their implications for impact and risk assessment / edited by Jana Sillmann, Sebastian Sippel and Simone Russo
Published Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Cambridge, MA : Elsevier, [2020]

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Contents 1. Climate extremes and their implications for impact modeling: A short introduction / Jana Sillmann and Sebastian Sippel -- 2. Climate scenarios and their relevance and implications for impact studies / Claudia Tebaldi and Brian O'Neill -- 3. Changes in climate extremes in observations and climate model simulations. From the past into the future / Markus Donat, Jana Sillmann and Erich Fischer -- 4. Multivariate extremes and compound events / Jakob Zscheischler, Bart van den Hurk, Philip Ward and Seth Westra -- 5. Bias-correction of climate model output for impact models / Alex J. Cannon, Claudio Piani and Sebastian Sippel -- 6. Anthropogenic changes in tropical cyclones and its impacts / Michael Wehner -- 7. Machine Learning Applications for Agricultural Impacts Under Extreme Events / Carlos Felipe Gaitan -- 8. Assessing the F rance 2016 extreme wheat production loss -- evaluating our operational capacity to predict complex compound events / Marijn Van der Velde, Rémi Lecerf, Raphaël d'Andrimont and Tamara Ben-Ari -- 9. Probabilistic drought risk analysis for even-aged forests / Marcel Van Oijen and Miguel Angel de Zavala -- 10. Projecting health impacts of climate extremes: a methodological overview / Ana Maria Vicedo-Cabrera, Francesco Sera and Antonio Gasparrini -- 11. Climate extremes and their implications for impact modelling in transport / Maria Pregnolato, David Jaroszweski, Alistair Ford and Richard Dawson -- 12. Assessing Vulnerability and Risk of Climate Change</p> <p><i>Bapon SHM Fakhruddin, </i><i>Kate Boylan, Alec Wild and Rebekah Robertson -- 13. Data challenges limit our global understanding of humanitarian disasters triggered by climate extremes / Miguel D. Mahecha, Debarati Guha-Sapir, Jeroen Smits, Fabian Gans and Guido Kraemer -- 14. Adaptive capacity of coupled socio-ecological systems to absorb climate extremes / Anja Rammig, Michael Bahn, Carolina Vera, Thomas Knoke, Carola Paul, Björn Vollan, Karlheinz Erb, Richard Bardgett, Stefan Liehr, Sandra Lavorel and Kirsten Thonicke -- 15. Impacts of Extreme Events on Medieval Societies: Lesson from Climate History / Martin Bauch -- 16. Climate Extremes and Conflict Dynamics / Jürgen Scheffran -- 17. Avoiding impacts and impacts avoided -- new frontiers in impact science for adaptation research and policy relevant assessments / Carl-Friedrich Schleussner and Benoit P. Guillod -- 18. Outlook: Challenges for societal resilience under climate extremesOutlook / Markus Reichstein, Dorothea Frank, Jana Sillmann and Sebastian Sippel
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 13, 2020)
Subject Climatic extremes -- Social aspects
Natural disasters -- Social aspects
Natural disasters -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Sillmann, Jana
Sippel, Sebastian
Russo, Simone
ISBN 9780128148969
0128148969