Disastrous floods have caused millions of fatalities in the twentieth century, tens of billions of
dollars of direct economic loss each year and serious disruption to global trade. In this …

Warming amplification over the Arctic Pole (AP hereafter) and Third Pole (Tibetan Plateau,
TP hereafter) can trigger a series of climate responses and have global consequences …

Simultaneous harvest failures across major crop-producing regions are a threat to global
food security. Concurrent weather extremes driven by a strongly meandering jet stream …

Increasing floods and droughts are raising concerns of an accelerating water cycle,
however, the relative contributions to streamflow changes from climate and land …

In an interconnected world, simultaneous extreme weather events in distant regions could
potentially impose high-end risks for societies,. In the mid-latitudes, circumglobal Rossby …

Compound climate extremes are receiving increasing attention because of their
disproportionate impacts on humans and ecosystems. However, risks assessments …

The summer of 2018 witnessed a number of extreme weather events such as heatwaves in
North America, Western Europe and the Caspian Sea region, and rainfall extremes in South …

In recent years, air pollution has caused more than 1 million deaths per year in China,
making it a major focus of public health efforts. However, future climate change may …

The evidence for anthropogenic climate change continues to strengthen, and concerns
about severe weather events are increasing. As a result, scientific interest is rapidly shifting …

Arctic warming has sparked a growing interest because of its possible impacts on mid-
latitude climate,,,,. A number of unusually harsh cold winters have occurred in many parts of …