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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Overview of extreme weather events, impacts and forecasting techniques.1. Definition of extreme weather eventsMarina Astitha and Efthymios Nikolopoulos2. Weather forecasting Marina Astitha, Linus Magnusson, Efthymios Nikolopoulos3. Extreme weather forecasting in urban areasMukul Tewari, Zhihua Wang, Dan Chen, Quang-Van Doan, Hiroyuki Kusaka, Prathap Ramamurthy and Pallav Ray4. Wildfires and weather Branko Kosovíc, Timothy W. Juliano, Amy DeCastro, Maria Frediani, Amanda Siems-Anderson, Pedro Jimenez, Domingo Muñoz-Esparza, Jason C. Knievel and Masih Eghdami 2. Operational multiscale predictions of hazardous events Linus Magnusson, C. Prudhomme, F. Di Giuseppe, C. Di Napoli and F. Pappenberger1. Introduction2. Example case: 2015 European heatwave3. Key factors of predictability4. Hazard forecasting5. Evaluation of hazardous events 6. Conclusion 7. Summary 3. Forecasting extreme weather events and associated impacts: Case Studies1. Extreme heat Martina Calovi, Weiming Hu, Laura Clemente and Guido Cervone2. Atmospheric riversForest Cannon and Luca Delle Monache3. The hydrological Hillslope-Link Model for space-time prediction of streamflow: insights and applications at the Iowa Flood Center Ricardo Mantilla, Witold F. Krajewski, Nicolas Velasquez, Scott Small, Tibebu Ayalew, Felipe Quintero, Navid Jadidoleslam and Morgan Fonley4. Social impacts: integrating dynamic social vulnerability in impact-based weather forecastingGalateia Terti, Sandrine Anquetin and Isabelle Ruin5. Landslides and debris flows Dalia B. Kirschbaum and Sana Khan6. Weather-induced power outages Diego Cerrai and Emmanouil Anagnostou
