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“It Was Raining All the Time!”: Ex Post Tourist Weather Perceptions

Atmosphere, 2016
The importance of weather for tourism is now widely recognized. However, no research has so far addressed weather events from retrospective viewpoints, and, in particular, the role of “extreme” events in longer-term holiday memories. To better understand
Stefan Gössling, Bruno Abegg, Robert Steiger   +2 more
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Economics of extreme weather events: Terminology and regional impact models

Weather and Climate Extremes, 2015
Impacts of extreme weather events are relevant for regional (in the sense of subnational) economies and in particular cities in many aspects. Cities are the cores of economic activity and the amount of people and assets endangered by extreme weather ...
Malte Jahn
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Geoarchaeological evidence of the AD 1642 Yellow River flood that destroyed Kaifeng, a former capital of dynastic China

, 2020
Rising global temperatures will increase the number of extreme weather events, creating new challenges for cities around the world. Archaeological research on the destruction and subsequent reoccupation of ancient cities has the potential to reveal ...
Cao, J., Chen, P., Ge, Q., Liu, H., Lu, P., Park, E., Qin, Z., Storozum, M., Wan, J., Wang, H., Wang, S., Yang, R.   +11 more
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The effect of extreme weather events on breeding parameters of the White Stork Ciconia ciconia [PDF]

, 2015
Capsule: Although the White Stork avoids adverse weather conditions by modifying its arrival and breeding, it cannot avoid extreme weather events during the breeding season.
Bairlein F., Coumou D., Denac D., Dolata P.T., IPCC, Kania W., Katarzyna M. Zolnierowicz, Klosowski G., Kosicki J.Z., Kosicki J.Z., Kuźniak S., Marcin Tobolka, Moreno J., Naninkov D.N., Nicola F. Reeve, Profus P., Sasvári L., Tortosa F.S., Tryjanowski P., Tsachalidis E.P.   +19 more
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The Influence of Weather Patterns and the Madden‐Julian Oscillation on Extreme Precipitation Over Sri Lanka

Geophysical Research Letters, 2023
Sri Lanka is affected by extreme precipitation events every year, which cause floods, landslides and tremendous economic losses. We use the ERA5 reanalysis data set to understand the association of extreme precipitation events with 30 weather patterns ...
Akshay Deoras, Andrew G. Turner, Kieran M. R. Hunt, I. M. Shiromani Priyanthika Jayawardena   +3 more
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Extreme Weather Impacts on Inland Waterways Transport of Yangtze River

Atmosphere, 2019
The impact of extreme weather events on the navigation environment in the inland waterways of the Yangtze River is an interdisciplinary hotspot in subjects of maritime traffic safety and maritime meteorology, and it is also a difficult point for the ...
Lijun Liu, Yuanqiao Wen, Youjia Liang, Fan Zhang, Tiantian Yang   +4 more
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How the Black Swan damages the harvest: Extreme weather events and the fragility of agriculture in development countries.

PLoS ONE, 2022
Climate change constitutes a rising challenge to the agricultural base of developing countries. Most of the literature has focused on the impact of changes in the means of weather variables on mean changes in production and has found very little impact ...
Nadine Marmai, Maria Franco Villoria, Marco Guerzoni   +2 more
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Extreme Weather Events and Asthma. [PDF]

Immunol Allergy Clin North Am
The objective of this article is to review recent literature on the implications of extreme weather events such as thunderstorms, wildfires, tropical cyclones, freshwater flooding, and temperature extremes in relationship to asthma symptoms. Several studies have shown worsening of asthma symptoms with thunderstorms, wildfires, tropical cyclones ...
Luedders J, Poole JA, Rorie AC.
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Weather data analysis and building performance assessment during extreme climate events: A Canadian AMY weather file data set

Data in Brief
The increasing intensity and frequency of extreme weather events resulting from climate change have led to grid outages and other negative consequences.
Milad Rostami, Santinah Green-Mignacca, Scott Bucking   +2 more
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EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS OF MARCH 2013 IN OLTENIA [PDF]

Aerul şi Apa: Componente ale Mediului, 2016
Heavy snow associated with low temperatures and wind intensification are phenomena typically manifested during winter, in southwestern Romania. The occurrence of such events in the last decade of the month of March, when spring should already be ...
F. SFÎRLEAZĂ, C. MĂNESCU, A. BĂCESCU, M. IORDĂCHESCU, M. BĂCESCU   +4 more
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