Weather and Climate Extreme Events in a Changing Climate (Chapter 11)

• Main Authors: Seneviratne, S.I., Zhang, X., Adnan, M., Badi, W., Dereczynski, C., Di Luca, A., Ghosh, S., Iskander, I., Kossin, J., Lewis, S., Otto, F., Pinto, I., Satoh, M., Vicente-Serrano, S.M., Wehner, M., Zhou, B.
• Other Authors: Masson-Delmotte, V., Zhai, P., Pirani, A., Connors, S.L., Péan, C., Berger, S., Caud, N., Chen, Y., Goldfarb, L., Gomis, M.I, Huang, M., Leitzell, K., Lonnoy, E., Matthews, J.B.R., Maycock, T.K., Waterfield, T., Yelekçi, K., Yu, R., Zhu, B.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2021
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/19093/; https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/; https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/19093/1/IPCC_AR6_WGI_Chapter11.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009157896.013

This chapter assesses changes in weather and climate extremes on regional and global scales, including observed changes and their attribution, as well as projected changes. The extremes considered include temperature extremes, heavy precipitation and pluvial floods, river floods, droughts, storms (including tropical cyclones), as well as compound events (multivariate and concurrent extremes). The assessment focuses on land regions excluding Antarctica.