Prediction and projection of heatwaves

DIV Domeisen, EAB Eltahir, EM Fischer… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Heatwaves constitute a major threat to human health and ecosystems. Projected increases
in heatwave frequency and severity thus lead to the need for prediction to enhance …

Heat waves: Physical understanding and scientific challenges

D Barriopedro, R García‐Herrera… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Heat waves (HWs) can cause large socioeconomic and environmental impacts. The
observed increases in their frequency, intensity and duration are projected to continue with …

Keeping pace with marine heatwaves

NJ Holbrook, A Sen Gupta, ECJ Oliver… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are prolonged extreme oceanic warm water events. They can
have devastating impacts on marine ecosystems—for example, causing mass coral …

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 …

Identifying key driving processes of major recent heat waves

K Wehrli, BP Guillod, M Hauser… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Heat waves lead to major impacts on human health, food production, and ecosystems. To
assess their predictability and how they are projected to change under global warming, it is …

The role of latent heating in atmospheric blocking dynamics: a global climatology

D Steinfeld, S Pfahl - Climate Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
Atmospheric blocking represents an important aspect of the mid-latitude weather variability,
but the different processes contributing to its formation and maintenance are not yet fully …

Processes determining heat waves across different European climates

P Zschenderlein, AH Fink, S Pfahl… - Quarterly Journal of the …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This study presents a comprehensive analysis of processes determining heat waves across
different climates in Europe for the period 1979–2016. Heat waves are defined using a …

Everything hits at once: How remote rainfall matters for the prediction of the 2021 North American heat wave

A Oertel, M Pickl, JF Quinting, S Hauser… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In June 2021, Western North America experienced an intense heat wave with
unprecedented temperatures and far‐reaching socio‐economic consequences. Anomalous …

On the local warming potential of urban rooftop photovoltaic solar panels in cities

A Khan, M Santamouris - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding and evaluating the implications of photovoltaic solar panels (PVSPs)
deployment on urban settings, as well as the pessimistic effects of densely populated areas …

[HTML][HTML] The extratropical transition of tropical cyclones. Part II: Interaction with the midlatitude flow, downstream impacts, and implications for predictability

JH Keller, CM Grams, M Riemer… - Monthly Weather …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Extratropical Transition of Tropical Cyclones. Part II: Interaction with the Midlatitude Flow,
Downstream Impacts, and Implications for Predictability in: Monthly Weather Review Volume …