Extreme Storms

Increasing Frequency of Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storms in the North Indian Ocean by Anthropogenic Warming and Southwest Monsoon Weakening

“…Changes in extremely severe and higher category cyclonic storms (ESCS), defined as tropical storms with lifetime maximum winds greater than 46 ms −1 , over the North Indian Ocean (NIO) have received considerable attention recently (Mohapatra, 2016; Murakami et al., 2017; Vellore et al., 2020). Storm surge and coastal flooding caused by the increase in ESCS can lead to loss of lives and enormous property damage along densely populated coastal regions (Sahoo et al., 2021).…”

Ranking and characterization of precipitation extremes for the past 113 years for Indian western Himalayas

“…Precipitation extremes have become a severe concern in recent decades in the IWH region. Moreover, the region is experiencing frequent cloudbursts events which are also a source of short‐term precipitation extremes and lead to precipitation disasters due to the higher vulnerability of the society to such events (Das and Meher, 2019; Sabin et al ., 2020; Vellore et al ., 2020).…”

“…The combination of these highly energetic phenomena and the pronounced orography often results in sudden precipitation extremes (Nandargi and Dhar, 2011) that cannot be predicted effectively. While daily and sub‐daily precipitation extremes usually result in urban and small stream flash flooding, long‐duration precipitation episodes can lead to large‐scale river floods, inducing major socio‐economic impacts (Shukla et al ., 2019a; Shukla et al ., 2019b; Kumari et al ., 2019; Vellore et al ., 2020) and other adverse consequences such as deep landslide movements (Ozturk et al ., 2018). Precipitation extremes have become a severe concern in recent decades in the IWH region.…”