Climate change and weather extremes in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East

G Zittis, M Almazroui, P Alpert, P Ciais… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Observation‐based and modeling studies have identified the Eastern Mediterranean and
Middle East (EMME) region as a prominent climate change hotspot. While several initiatives …

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 …

Weather and climate extreme events in a changing climate

SI Seneviratne, X Zhang, M Adnan, W Badi… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
Caption: Table A. 11. 2. Synthesis table summarising assessments presented in Tables 11.4-
11.21 for hot extremes (HOT EXT.), heavy precipitation (HEAVY PRECIP.), agriculture and …

Attribution of the heavy rainfall events leading to severe flooding in Western Europe during July 2021

JS Tradowsky, SY Philip, F Kreienkamp, SF Kew… - Climatic Change, 2023 - Springer
In July 2021 extreme rainfall across Western Europe caused severe flooding and substantial
impacts, including over 200 fatalities and extensive infrastructure damage within Germany …

Convection‐permitting modeling with regional climate models: Latest developments and next steps

P Lucas‐Picher, D Argüeso, E Brisson… - Wiley …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Approximately 10 years ago, convection‐permitting regional climate models (CPRCMs)
emerged as a promising computationally affordable tool to produce fine resolution (1–4 km) …

Europe (Chapter 13)

B Bednar-Friedl, R Biesbroek, DN Schmidt… - 2022 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
Our current 1.1° C warmer world is already affecting natural and human systems in Europe
(very high confidence1). Since AR5, there has been a substantial increase in detected or …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change in the Baltic Sea region: a summary

HEM Meier, M Kniebusch, C Dieterich… - Earth System …, 2022 - esd.copernicus.org
Abstract Based on the Baltic Earth Assessment Reports of this thematic issue in Earth
System Dynamics and recent peer-reviewed literature, current knowledge of the effects of …

The first multi-model ensemble of regional climate simulations at kilometer-scale resolution part 2: historical and future simulations of precipitation

E Pichelli, E Coppola, S Sobolowski, N Ban, F Giorgi… - Climate Dynamics, 2021 - Springer
This paper presents the first multi-model ensemble of 10-year,“convection-permitting”
kilometer-scale regional climate model (RCM) scenario simulations downscaled from …

21st Century alpine climate change

S Kotlarski, A Gobiet, S Morin, M Olefs, J Rajczak… - Climate Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
A comprehensive assessment of twenty-first century climate change in the European Alps is
presented. The analysis is based on the EURO-CORDEX regional climate model ensemble …

Attributing and projecting heatwaves is hard: We can do better

GJ Van Oldenborgh, MF Wehner, R Vautard… - Earth's …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
It sounds straightforward. As the Earth warms due to the increased concentration of
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, global temperatures rise and so heatwaves become …