Weather extremes have become a universal problem that everyone has to take part in order to prevent it from occurring. In further research to this serious issue, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are trying to develop climate models to identify these weather extremes and their relationships with other climate extremes. These researches use a string of data, advanced mathematical models, and also latest technology and computers to make the models.

These models will help determine how far the connection between human activity and weather extremes is. For now, however, they are focusing on to what extent the recent weather extremes are similar to those recorded between 1940 and 2005, like heat waves and tsunami.

By identifying the relationship between one event and another, climatologists will then be able to forecast whether there will be another major disaster after one strikes or how long the current disaster will last. Forecasting accurately is also a means to save the people, because by alerting them of the imminent disaster, residence will then be able to evacuate to other safer places that are not in the scope of the impact of the disaster. Policies can also be made because as the government knows what will happen next, they can prevent that from occurring by alerting the citizens to work together to save the environment.