1. Understanding Weather and Climate Extremes 2. The Role of Climate Datasets in Understanding Climate Extremes 3. Advances in Weather and Climate Extremes 4. Uncertainties in daily rainfall over West Africa: Assessment of Gridded Products 5. Features of Regional Indian Monsoon Rainfall Extremes 6. Historical Changes in Maximum Precipitation Events over Iran 7. Intensification of precipitation extremes in the United States under global warming 8. Historical changes in Hydroclimatic Extreme events over Europe 9. Meteorological Droughts in Semi-arid Eastern Kenya 10. Drought across East Africa under Climate Variability 11. Revisiting the impacts of Tropical Cyclone Idai in Southern Africa 12. Impacts of Climate Extremes over Arctic and Antarctic 13. The Degradation of the Amazon Rainforest: Regional and Global Climate Implications 14. Farmers' Perceptions of Climate Hazards and Coping Mechanisms in Fiji 15. People's Management of Risks from Extreme Weather Events in the Pacific Island Region 16. Management of Extreme Hydrological Events