Extreme Weather

by Philip John Sallis

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Title Statements

Full title :Extreme Weather

Summary

The term extreme weather normally conjures up thoughts of massive storms or heat waves or overtly cold temperatures. These are all examples of what we might consider as weather events that occur out of the ordinary or what is regarded as the normal pattern of calm, heat, cold, dry, or wet conditions for one season of the year or another. The point is that if we consider an oscillation of data points in a weather pattern and plot a mean through it, extreme weather can be observed as a perturbation in a distribution of climatic events over time. These events may be short-lived, such as a wind gust occurrence, or of longer duration, such as heavy rain leading to flooding. Importantly, once initiated, a perturbation event has an associated consequence, which usually requires human intervention to rectify the event's consequences.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2018.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):InTech
Language:eng
Publication Date:2018.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781789236125, 1789236126, 9781789236132, 1789236134, 9781838816568, 1838816569
oclc:on1325766333
LC Classification:QC981.8.C53
Dewey Decimal:304.25