Tropical Cyclones and Associated Impacts

Gabriele Villarini is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and at the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2008 and his Executive MBA in 2018 from the University of Iowa. His research interests focus on flood hydrology, hydroclimatology, and climate predictions and projections. He has received several awards, including the “Hydrological Sciences Outstanding Young Scientist Award” by the European Geosciences Union (2013), and the James B. Macelwane Medal by the American Geophysical Union (2016). He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2016). Prior to coming to Princeton University in 2023, he was a professor at the University of Iowa, and the Director of IIHR—Hydroscience & Engineering. Gabriel Vecchi is Knox Taylor Professor of Geosciences and the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. Since July 2021 he has been Director of the High Meadows Environmental Institute. He is also the Deputy Director of the Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System (CIMES), a joint institute between Princeton University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and has received several awards including the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the AMS’s Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award, and the Ascent Award from the Atmospheric Sciences Section of the American Geophysical Union. His research focuses on understanding short- and long-term changes to the oceans and atmosphere, including the monsoons, El Niño, and the impact of climate on tropical cyclones, weather extremes, and global patterns of rainfall and drought. Prior to coming to Princeton University in 2017, he was a Research Oceanographer and the Head of the Climate Variations and Predictability Group at the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), where he was from 2003. Enrico Scoccimarro is Senior Scientist at Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC), and Director of the Climate Variability and Prediction division at CMCC. He has 25 years of experience in climate modelling with a special focus on the coupling between the atmosphere and ocean components of General Circulation Models (GCMs). During this period, he has contributed to the development of several GCMs (e.g., INGV-SXG, CMCC-Med, CMCC-CM CMCC-CM2, CMCC-CM3) and has performed a number of climate scenario simulations and projections participating to the different Coupled Model Intercomparison Projects (CMIP3, CMIP5, CMIP6) providing climate data for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Reports. He has been partner in several international projects mainly dealing with high resolution modelling and impacts associated to extreme events. His main research interest is on extreme events such as tropical cyclones with particular focus on their interaction with the climate system.

1. Overview of tropical cyclones and historical perspective 2. Tropical cyclones and flooding 3. Impacts of tropical cyclones in urban areas 4. Tropical cyclones and storm surge 5. Tropical cyclones and compound riverine / coastal flooding 6. Tropical cyclones and wind damage 7. Managing the risks associated with tropical cyclones 8. Tropical cyclones and the energy sector 9. Tropical cyclones and human health 10. Forecasting the impacts associated with tropical cyclones 11. Projecting changes in the impacts of tropical cyclones 12. Attribution of impacts associated with tropical cyclones to climate change 13. A paleoclimatological perspective on tropical cyclones