I am doing research on extreme weather event and relationship with future climate change. Do you know of any publications on extreme weather events and climate change impacts? Any suggestions are welcome
You can start with the SREX report from the IPCC and which will form part of the UNFCCC 5th Assessment Report. That has a lot of background information.
you must go to www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb/bams-sotc/2011-peterson-et-al.pdf and www.giss.nasa.gov and www.pnas.org for get the "Explaining Extreme Events of 2011 from a climate perspective". The abstract of this article can be found in this issue, following the table of contents:
Lot of literature and news may be obtained from searching this topic in Google, but the exact dynamical and physical mechanism of the relation between the changing climate and the extreme events are yet to be unraveled. Very few scientists like Prof Andrew Majda, department of Mathematics, Climate, Atmosphere and Ocean, New York University are working in that line.
Rasmus Benestad from Norwegian meteorological institute is about to publish a new article about this. The upcomming article is about extremeprecipitation and change in mean temperature.
Marcos, M., Chust, G., Jordà, G., Caballero, A., 2012. Effect of sea level extremes on the western Basque coast during the 21st century. Climate Research, 51, 237-248.
It probably also depends on the kind of extreme event you're looking at. I am studying hurricane impacts in North America historically and with hurricanes there is no real consensus in the scientific community yet whether they will become more frequent, or less frequent but stronger with climate change. If you're interested in the hurricane debate I can send you a list of references. Otherwise you may also be interested to know that there is a growing number of Historians in Europe (and North America) who are studying past impacts of climatic extreme events. In other words they research the history of (climatically induced) extreme events/disasters. It is interdisciplinary research done together with historical climatologists and geographers. For example:
Pfister, Christian, and Rudolf Brázdil. "Climatic Variability in Sixteenth-Century Europe and Its Social Dimension: A Synthesis." Climatic Change 43 (1999): 5-53.
Oliver Wetter / Christian Pfister / Rolf Weingartner / Tom Reist / Jürg Trösch / Jürg
Luterbacher, The largest floods in the Upper Rhine catchment basin since 1268 assessed from documentary and instrumental evidence, Hydrological Sciences Journal, published on line 12th July (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02626667.2011.583613)
The vulnerability of past societies to climatic variation: a new focus for Historical
Climatology in the 21st Century, in: Climatic Change.101,1, (2010) 281-310.
Giovanna Battipaglia / David Frank / Ulf Büntgen / Petr Dobrovolný / Rudolf Brázdil /
Christian Pfister / Jan Esper, Five centuries of Central European temperature extremes reconstructed from tree-ring density and documentary evidence, in : Global and Planetary Change 72, (2010) 182-191