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Projected Changes in Extreme Weather and Climate Events in Europe

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Extreme Weather Events and Public Health Responses

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Extreme weather and climate events have wide ranging impacts on society as well as on biophysical systems. That society, on occasions, is unable to cope with extreme weather and climate events is concerning, especially as increases in the frequency and intensity of certain events are predicted by some global climate change projections. Extreme events come in many different shapes and sizes. The multitude of extreme event types has also led to a proliferation of definitions appropriate for different applications at different times and places.

Conceptually, climate change may lead to an alteration of extreme weather and climate events across Europe. Trends in time series of observed extreme weather and climate indices are suggestive of changes in the climatology of extreme events over Europe. This paper reviews theoretical approaches associated with the scientific assessment of extreme weather events.

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  1. The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Road, B15 2TT, UK-Birmingham, UK

    Dr. Glenn R. McGregor (Reader in Synoptic Climatology)

  2. Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Earley Gate, RG6 6BB, UK-Reading, UK

    Christopher A. T. Ferro & Dr. David B. Stephenson

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  1. European Public Health Association (EUPHA), Germany

    Wilhelm Kirch (Past President) (Past President)

  2. Public Health Research Association Saxony, Medical Faculty, Technical University Dresden, Fiedlerstr. 27, D-01307, Dresden, Germany

    Wilhelm Kirch (Past President) (Past President)

  3. Special Programme on Health and Environment, WHO Regional Office for Europe, WHO European Centre for Environment and Health, Via Francesco Crispi, 10, I-00187, Rome, Italy

    Roberto Bertollini

  4. Global Change and Health, WHO Regional Office for Europe, WHO European Centre for Environment and Health, Via Francesco Crispi, 10, I-00187, Rome, Italy

    Bettina Menne

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McGregor, G.R., Ferro, C.A.T., Stephenson, D.B. (2005). Projected Changes in Extreme Weather and Climate Events in Europe. In: Kirch, W., Bertollini, R., Menne, B. (eds) Extreme Weather Events and Public Health Responses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28862-7_2

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