Weather- and climate-related extremes are intensifying in frequency, severity, and spatial extent, heightening the vulnerability of networked systems. Despite rapid scientific progress, a persistent science-to-operations gap limits the uptake of state-of-the-art hydrometeorological knowledge in planning and operations. This session highlights research that translates advances in computational hydrometeorology into decision-relevant tools that strengthen the resilience of networked systems, including transportation, energy, water, communications, and trade, against myriad of extreme events and their compounding, cascading effects. We invite contributions that (i) advance the fundamental understanding and prediction of extremes across the hydrologic cycle and (ii)operationalize these advances for resilient design, asset management, emergency response, and long-term adaptation across interdependent networks and supply chains.
Topics of interest include:
Improved understanding of physical drivers, interdependence, and nonstationarity of hydroclimatic extremes.
Impacts of extremes on interdependent infrastructure networks (transport, energy, water, communications) and trade networks.
Cascading failures, fragility and functional loss modeling, and recovery dynamics in networked systems.