There is general agreement that ongoing environmental changes and global warming are leading to increased frequencies and intensities of extreme weather and climate events. Such extreme events include, e.g., temperature extremes and droughts, heavy precipitation, storms, pluvial floods and river floods. Scientific studies on possible effects of the increasing frequency and/or intensity of such extreme weather and climate events on geomorphic processes and related earth surface systems are of utmost importance as they are addressing key challenges related to the environment in which we live. Geomorphic processes refer to the generation, mobilisation, transfer and possible deposition of material. Responses of geomorphic and hazardous processes to extreme weather and climate events span the full range of terrestrial surface environments on Earth.
This session invites contributions from earth scientists that may include a wide spectrum of processes, approaches, methods and techniques, like, e.g., dating, sedimentary records, GIS, remote sensing, observational records, monitoring, experimental studies, and modelling. We particularly invite studies that have wider systematic relevance and implications. Most welcome are scientific presentations that highlight contributions of geomorphological research to the ongoing debates on the effects of global environmental changes on geomorphic processes and natural and anthropogenically modified earth surface systems, and for the development of suitable and sustainable mitigation, management and adaption strategies and actions.