In this series of videos, U-M Professor Perry Samson explores the phenomena of “extreme weather” and how an increase in overall climate temperature would impact those events.
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About the series
What extreme weather event causes the most fatalities every year? And what trends are experts looking at to predict future weather patterns? In this series of videos, U-M Professor Perry Samson explores the phenomena of “extreme weather” and how an increase in overall climate temperature would impact those events. Samson explains how heat waves, hurricanes and tornadoes form, why they are prevalent in certain regions and what they might do in the future.
- Chapter 1: Extreme Weather in a changing climate
- Chapter 2: Heat Waves
- Chapter 3: Hurricanes
- Chapter 4: Tornadoes
- Chapter 5: Is climate change happening?
About the professor
Perry Samson is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Michigan. His research includes chemical meteorology; computer simulation of atmospheric transport and chemistry of contaminants, applications of meteorological and air pollution instrumentation; and educational technology.
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