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Extreme Environmental Events – A Proposed Classification (Based on the Example of Central Europe)

Quaestiones Geographicae

Volume 44 (2025): Issue 3 (September 2025)

By: Zbigniew Ustrnul and Tadeusz Niedźwiedź

Open Access

|Sep 2025

Figures & Tables

Simple taxonomy of extreme weather and climate events according to Stephenson (2008).

Intensity and duration of various extreme events according to Starkel (1999). A – short, sudden episodes; B – events that slowly build up and proceed quickly; C – events that appear suddenly and then spread further, 1 and 2 – differentiated reaction trajectories; D – events that slowly build up and disappear just as slowly.

Spatial and temporal scales for different extreme events according to Starkel (2003).

Types of hazard maps presented in the ISOK project.

General concept of extreme event classification_

Main categories	Meteorological	Hydrological	Geomorphological	Oceanographical	Other
Main categories	[M]	[H]	[G]	[O]	[X]
Types and subtypes	M-1	H-1	G-1	O-1	X-1
	M-2	H-2	G-2	O-2	X-2
	M-3	H-3	G-3	O-3	X-3
	…	…	…	…	…
	M-n	H-n	G-n	O-n	X-n
Events	Combined/Synergistic

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14746/quageo-2025-0033 | Journal eISSN: 2081-6383 | Journal ISSN: 2082-2103

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Language: English

Page range: 175 - 185

Submitted on: Jun 10, 2025

Published on: Sep 30, 2025

Published by: Adam Mickiewicz University

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

Keywords:

extreme events,

extreme phenomena,

natural environment,

natural disasters,

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