All Earth

Frontiers in Extreme Weather and Climate Events

Extreme events such as floods, tropical cyclones, heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires are of major concern due to their strong impacts on society, the economy, and the environment. Despite significant progress, gaps remain in understanding their drivers, variability, and predictability. Therefore, understanding their behavior, causes, and evolution remains a challenging area of active research.

This Article Collection brings together short, letter-style contributions presenting new and novel results on extreme events. We welcome cutting-edge studies based on observations, analytical approaches, and numerical modeling that improve our understanding of these events.

Main themes include, but are not limited to:

• Predictability: advances in forecasting extreme events, early warning approaches, and risk estimation
• Physics and dynamics: mechanisms driving extremes, including atmospheric, oceanic, land-surface, and human-related influences
• Characteristics and variability: spatial and temporal patterns, trends, and regional-scale behavior of extreme events

The focus is on concise, high-impact studies that provide new insights into extreme events and their role in society and the environment. Manuscripts should be in the ‘Rapid Communications’ format: short and focused with rapid dissemination of results. Further information about the Rapid Communications article type can be found here.

Article Collection Guest Advisor

Sridhara Nayak is Chief Scientist at the Japan Meteorological Corporation, specializing in extreme weather, numerical weather prediction, and climate modeling. He serves as a section editor for Extreme Event Communications in All Earth and an associate editor for Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk. Dr. Nayak is active in societies such as AGU, EGU, JpGU, AOGS, IEEE, SAMA, and MSJ. He leads the “Extreme Events: Observations and Modeling” at major conferences worldwide and integrates research and applied science to bridge knowledge and practice.

Further Information

Please review the journal scope and author submission instructions prior to submitting a manuscript.

The deadline for submitting manuscripts is 31 January 2027

Please contact Alex Johnson at [email protected] with any questions about this Article Collection, or to request a discount code.

Please be sure to select the appropriate Article Collection from the drop-down menu in the submission system.

Please select Extreme Event Communications from the list of available sections during submission. Failure to select the appropriate Article Collection or Section name can result in delays.