HR: 0800h
AN: A41A-06    [Abstracts]
TI: Development of a World Extreme Weather Archive
AU: * Cerveny, R S
EM: cerveny@asu.edu
AF: Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-0104, United States
AB: At a task meeting of the WMO OPAG 2 group, members unanimously agreed that the creation of a world archive for verifying, certifying and storing world weather extremes was useful and necessary. Consequently, the initial set of world records created by the WMO rapporteur for climate extremes includes the following global values: hottest temperature, coldest temperature, highest pressure, lowest pressure, greatest 1-minute, 1-hour, 12-hour, 24-hour and 1 year precipitation, greatest annual precipitation, heaviest hailstone, longest dry period, and maximum surface wind gust (non-tornado). In addition, a variety of official hemispheric and continental records are established. Finally, records for characteristics of tropical cyclones (e.g., deadliest, highest wind speed, largest eye, etc.) and tornadoes (e.g., deadliest, longest track, etc.) are also established.
DE: 1600 GLOBAL CHANGE
DE: 1616 Climate variability (1635, 3305, 3309, 4215, 4513)
DE: 1637 Regional climate change
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2007 Joint Assembly