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Climate Extremes
Climate extremes may be defined inclusively as severe hydrological or weather events, as well as significant regional changes in hydrometeorology, which are caused or exacerbated by climate change and which may in turn cause severe stresses on regional resources, economy, and the environment. While regional warming and heat waves, and perhaps heavy precipitation, can be attributed to climate change with a degree of credibility and projected relatively reliably, significant uncertainties continue to exist for regional hydrology, including floods and soil moisture, as well as tropical cyclones or hurricanes and droughts. Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Extremes 2012 (SREX) has adopted an event-based definition of climate extremes. It defines...
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Henderson, H. et al. (2017). Climate Extremes and Informing Adaptation. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_1632
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