An overview of climate change in Iran: facts and statistics

MR Mansouri Daneshvar, M Ebrahimi… - Environmental Systems …, 2019 - Springer
Background The climate change fact is intensive among the Middle East countries and
especially Iran. Among the Middle East countries, Iran will experience an increase of 2.6° C …

Indices for monitoring changes in extremes based on daily temperature and precipitation data

X Zhang, L Alexander, GC Hegerl… - Wiley …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Indices for climate variability and extremes have been used for a long time, often by
assessing days with temperature or precipitation observations above or below specific …

Innovative trend analysis of annual and seasonal rainfall in the Yangtze River Delta, eastern China

Y Wang, Y Xu, H Tabari, J Wang, Q Wang, S Song… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - Elsevier
Trend detection in hydro-climatological time series is a prime task under the context of
climate changes. Rainfall is a key component of the water cycle and its variability can …

[HTML][HTML] Strongly increasing heat extremes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in the 21st century

J Lelieveld, Y Proestos, P Hadjinicolaou, M Tanarhte… - Climatic Change, 2016 - Springer
The ensemble results of CMIP5 climate models that applied the RCP4. 5 and RCP8. 5
scenarios have been used to investigate climate change and temperature extremes in the …

On the measurement of heat waves

SE Perkins, LV Alexander - Journal of climate, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
Despite their adverse impacts, definitions and measurements of heat waves are ambiguous
and inconsistent, generally being endemic to only the group affected, or the respective study …

Increasing frequency, intensity and duration of observed global heatwaves and warm spells

SE Perkins, LV Alexander… - Geophysical Research …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Using the latest HadGHCND daily temperature dataset, global trends in observed
summertime heatwaves and annually calculated warm spells for 1950–2011 are analysed …

21 世纪初极端天气气候事件研究进展

胡宜昌, 董文杰, 何勇 - 地球科学进展, 2007 - adearth.ac.cn
由于极端天气气候事件的严重影响, 越来越多的研究开始关注其变化情况.
从观测分析到模拟研究, 几乎都发现极端气温, 降水事件发生了显著变化, 而且在全球变暖的大 …

Intensification of extreme precipitation in arid Central Asia

J Yao, Y Chen, J Chen, Y Zhao, D Tuoliewubieke… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes in total and extreme precipitation are expected to intensify under climate
warming. As Central Asia is among the driest regions in the world, more information is …

Global observed changes in daily climate extremes of temperature and precipitation

LV Alexander, X Zhang, TC Peterson… - Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
A suite of climate change indices derived from daily temperature and precipitation data, with
a primary focus on extreme events, were computed and analyzed. By setting an exact …

Climate change and impacts in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East

J Lelieveld, P Hadjinicolaou, E Kostopoulou… - Climatic change, 2012 - Springer
Abstract The Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East (EMME) are likely to be greatly
affected by climate change, associated with increases in the frequency and intensity of …