Dryland climate change: Recent progress and challenges

J Huang, Y Li, C Fu, F Chen, Q Fu, A Dai… - Reviews of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Drylands are home to more than 38% of the world's population and are one of the most
sensitive areas to climate change and human activities. This review describes recent …

The global monsoon across time scales: Mechanisms and outstanding issues

PX Wang, B Wang, H Cheng, J Fasullo, ZT Guo… - Earth-Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
The present paper addresses driving mechanisms of global monsoon (GM) variability and
outstanding issues in GM science. This is the second synthesis of the PAGES GM Working …

Different mechanisms for the extremely hot central-eastern China in July–August 2022 from a Eurasian large-scale circulation perspective

Z Wang, H Luo, S Yang - Environmental Research Letters, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract In July and August of 2022, unprecedented and long-lasting heatwaves attacked
central and eastern China (CEC); and the most affected area was in the Yangtze River (YR) …

Extremely hot East Asia and flooding western South Asia in the summer of 2022 tied to reversed flow over Tibetan Plateau

C He, T Zhou, L Zhang, X Chen, W Zhang - Climate Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
In the summer (July and August) of 2022, unprecedented heat wave occurred along the
Yangtze River Valley (YRV) over East Asia while unprecedented flood occurred over …

[HTML][HTML] Why is the Mediterranean a climate change hot spot?

A Tuel, EAB Eltahir - Journal of Climate, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Why Is the Mediterranean a Climate Change Hot Spot? in: Journal of Climate Volume 33
Issue 14 (2020) Jump to Content Logo Logo Logo Logo Logo Logo JOURNALS Artificial …

Observational and model evidence together support wide-spread exposure to noncompensable heat under continued global warming

CM Powis, D Byrne, Z Zobel, KN Gassert, AC Lute… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
As our planet warms, a critical research question is when and where temperatures will
exceed the limits of what the human body can tolerate. Past modeling efforts have …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding future change of global monsoons projected by CMIP6 models

B Wang, C Jin, J Liu - Journal of Climate, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Understanding Future Change of Global Monsoons Projected by CMIP6 Models in: Journal of
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Future temperature in southwest Asia projected to exceed a threshold for human adaptability

JS Pal, EAB Eltahir - Nature climate change, 2016 - nature.com
A human body may be able to adapt to extremes of dry-bulb temperature (commonly
referred to as simply temperature) through perspiration and associated evaporative cooling …

Emergence of the modern global monsoon from the Pangaea megamonsoon set by palaeogeography

Y Hu, X Li, WR Boos, J Guo, J Lan, Q Lin, J Han… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Geologic evidence and palaeoclimate simulations have indicated the existence of an
extensive, interconnected megamonsoon system over the Pangaea supercontinent …

Quantifying the physical processes leading to atmospheric hot extremes at a global scale

M Röthlisberger, L Papritz - Nature Geoscience, 2023 - nature.com
Heat waves are among the deadliest climate hazards. Yet the relative importance of the
physical processes causing their near-surface temperature anomalies (𝑇′)—advection of …