Extreme Natural Events

Section I - Climate Extremes



Chapter 1: CORDEX Southeast Asia: Providing Regional Climate Change Information for

Enabling Adaptation - Fredolin Tangang, Chung Jing Xiang, Faye Cruz, Supari, Jerasorn

Santisirisomboon, Thanh Ngo-Duc, Liew Juneng, Ester Salimun, Gemma Narisma, Julie

Dado, Tan Phan-Van, Mohd Syazwan Faisal Mohd, Patama Singhruck, John L. Mc Gregor,

Edvin Aldrian, Dodo Gunawan and Ardhasena Spaheluwakan (Malaysia)



Chapter 2: Technical and Infrastructure Modality for Extreme Climate Early Warning in

Indonesia - Edvin Aldrian, Sheila Dewi Ayu Kusumaningtyas, Supari, Danang Eko

Nuryanto, Ardhasena Sopaheluwakan and Dwikorita Karnawati (Indonesia)



Chapter 3: Discussion of Extreme Weather Events in Egypt - Mounir W. Labib (Egypt)



Chapter 4: Impact Assessment and Mitigation Measures of Climatic Variation on Paddy

Production: Case Study in Ampara District, Sri Lanka - A. Narmilan, A.N.M. Asmath,

N. Puvanitha (Sri Lanka)



Section II - Extreme Rainfall Events and Thunderstorms



Chapter 5: Thermodynamic Changes in the Atmosphere Associated with Pre-Monsoon

Thunderstorms over Eastern and North-Eastern India - Bhishma Tyagi, Rajesh Kumar

Sahu, Manoj Hari and Naresh Krishna Vissa (India)



Chapter 6: Real-Time Detection of Tornado Induced Ionospheric Disturbances by Stand-Alone

GNSS Receiver - Batakrushna Senapati, Dibyashakti Panda, Bhaskar Kundu and BhishmaTyagi (India)





Chapter 7: Statistical Characteristics of Extreme Rainfall Events over the Indian Sub-Continent

- PC Anandh, Naresh Krishna Vissa and Bhishma Tyagi (India)



Chapter 8: Complexities of Extreme Rainfall in the Philippines - Lyndon Mark P. Olaguera, Faye

Dr. A.S. Unnikrishnan obtained his Doctorate from Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France in 1985. Subsequently, he joined CSIR - National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Goa, India. He has worked in the Physical Oceanography Division in various capacities including as a Group Leader during 2009-2012 and superannuated as Chief Scientist (2015). He also worked as Consultant at NIO, Goa (2015-2017). His field of interests are: sea level variability (tides, storm surges and long-term changes) along the Indian coast and estuarine studies using observations and modelling. His work includes extreme events such as extreme sea level using analysis of data and modelling. He had a minute contribution to IPCC's winning of Nobel Prize for Peace in 2007 jointly with Mr. Al Gore.
Dr. Fredolin Tangang is a Professor of Climatology in the Department of Earth Sciences and Environment, Faculty of Science and Technology at the National University of Malaysia, where he also currently serves as Head of Department and has been with the University for 35 years. Prof. Tangang obtained his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia, Canada in 1997 where he developed a model to forecast El Niño. In 2011 he was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences, Malaysia. From 2008 - 2015 during the AR5 Cycle, Prof. Tangang served as the Vice-Chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 1. In the IPCC AR6 Cycle, he served as a Review Editor of Chapter 10. Prof. Tangang is also a Scientific Team Member (SAT) of CORDEX, an international programme under the World Meteorological Organization. He leads and coordinates the CORDEX Southeast Asia. Prof. Tangang has completed more than 30 research projects and published more than 100 scientific papers in international journals.
Prof. Raymond Durrheim (Ph.D., Witwatersrand, 1990) holds the South African Research Chair in Exploration, Earthquake and Mining Seismology at the University of the