Climate and Weather Extremes

Jennifer Collins; Charles M. Paxton; Thomas Wahl; Christopher T. Emrich

doi:10.17125/fci2017.ch20

Climate and Weather Extremes

Jennifer Collins, Charles M. Paxton, Thomas Wahl, Christopher T. Emrich

School of Geosciences

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This chapter examines Floridaís extreme weather hazards: 1) why they happen, 2) their relation to interannual to multidecadal climate variability, and 3) the potential of each hazard and spatial variability across the state. The weather hazards indicated are under these broad categories: precipitation (rainfall, flooding, droughts), thunderstorms (lightning, hail, convective wind, tornadoes), tropical weather (tropical storms and hurricanes), and temperatures (extreme highs and lows). The conclusions section mainly addresses the challenge of attributing extreme events to human-induced climate change.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Florida's Climate: Changes, Variations, Impacts
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.17125/fci2017.ch20
State	Published - Jan 1 2017

Keywords

Weather extremes
Seasonality
Climate variability
Frequencies
Attribution

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Earth Sciences

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