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Revision as of 21:44, 14 July 2014
A subset of "Hazard" and "Threat" to CI comprise Extreme Weather Events (EWE) which causes a CI disruption or, even more often, a Common cause failure of multiple CI.
EWE comprise:
- long duration drought
- extreme precipitation in a short period of time (e.g., flash floods, water bombs)
- (extreme) cold wave / cold snaps / ice & snow storms
- (extreme) heat wave
- extreme wind (hurricanes, tornadoes, Derecho, etc.)
Contents
Definitions
International Definitions
IPCC
Extreme Weather Event (EWE) is an event that is rare within its statistical reference distribution at a particular place [1]
Definitions of “rare” vary but an EWE would normally be as rare or rarer than the 10th or 90th percentile’
National Definitions
Standard Definition
Discussion
See also
