CMCC scientist Enrico Scoccimarro’s book, in collaboration with scientists from Princeton University, offers a comprehensive overview of tropical cyclones and their impacts worldwide, from physical processes to risks for societies and ecosystems.
What are the causes and patterns behind tropical cyclones and how do their consequences impact societies and ecosystems around the world? Edited by Gabriele Villarini, Gabriel A. Vecchi and CMCC scientist Enrico Scoccimarro, Tropical Cyclones and Associated Impacts: A Global Perspective brings together state‑of‑the‑art knowledge on how these extreme events form, evolve and interact with the climate system.
“This book gathers a huge amount of literature and information from different sectors dealing with tropical cyclones, not only from a physical perspective, but also providing a reference for the association of tropical cyclone activity to different kind of impacts,” says Scoccimarro.
The volume gives a qualitative and quantitative overview of tropical cyclone activity in the past and describes the current ability to forecast, project and attribute tropical cyclone activity to climate change. It focuses on tropical cyclone impacts at the global scale – such as floods, storm surge, wind damage and compound events – and explores how these storms affect risk management, the energy sector, urban environments and human health.
“This work can be considered a reference on state of the art tropical cyclones research, not only from the physical point of view (including forecasting, projections and attribution) but also from the impact point of view,” explains Scoccimarro. The editors bring together contributions that are relevant for a broad audience, from researchers and students to practitioners and agencies dealing with disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation.
The book builds on and complements CMCC’s long‑standing research on tropical cyclones and climate.
Observed tropical cyclone genesis locations, tracks, intensities and annual cycles of frequency from the IBTrACS v4 dataset (1980–2021), for the globe and the seven main tropical cyclone basins. Source: Tropical Cyclones and Associated Impacts: A Global Perspective
“Together with Gabriel Vecchi and Gabriele Villarini, I started working on hurricane research over 15 years ago in the context of the Hurricane Working Group of the CLIVAR effort,” recalls Scoccimarro. “This book represents our strong relationship, consolidated through the signature of a memorandum of understanding between CMCC and Princeton University.”
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Tropical Cyclones and Associated Impacts: A Global Perspective
