We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
WEATHER RECORDS: A WORLDWIDE VIEW.
- Authors
Condurache-Bota, Simona; Voiculescu, Mirela; Condurache-Bota, Gică
- Abstract
Weather conditions and climate influence human activities and their health, from changing the occurrence of respiratory diseases up till even changing birth rate and mortality. Weather extremes have fast and strong social and economic consequences. Therefore, people must learn to manage them, in order to diminish their impact and the vulnerability to them. Nowadays, climate change and global warming are widely-circulated issues in the world and extreme weather events are considered to be strongly related to them. Still, when considering these issues, one also has to take into account the internal variability of the terrestrial environment, as well as the variability of any system with dynamic components. This paper analyses records of worldwide extreme weather events as they are observed in various atmospheric parameters (temperature, pressure, rainfall, hail, aridity, wind, tornadoes and cyclones), as identified by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The study is conducted in terms of the spatial and temporal occurrence of such phenomena. Their causes, their impact and their relationship with climate change are also addressed.
- Subjects
WEATHER records; CLIMATE change; PRECIPITATION variability; SOLAR radiation management; ANTHROPOGENIC effects on nature
- Publication
Annals of the University Dunarea de Jos of Galati: Fascicle II, Mathematics, Physics, Theoretical Mechanics, 2016, Vol 39, Issue 1, p26
- ISSN
2067-2071
- Publication type
Article