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 …

Land–atmospheric feedbacks during droughts and heatwaves: state of the science and current challenges

DG Miralles, P Gentine, SI Seneviratne… - Annals of the New …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Droughts and heatwaves cause agricultural loss, forest mortality, and drinking water scarcity,
especially when they occur simultaneously as combined events. Their predicted increase in …

The global costs of extreme weather that are attributable to climate change

R Newman, I Noy - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Extreme weather events lead to significant adverse societal costs. Extreme Event Attribution
(EEA), a methodology that examines how anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions had …

Extreme heatwave over Eastern China in summer 2022: the role of three oceans and local soil moisture feedback

J Jiang, Y Liu, J Mao, G Wu - Environmental Research Letters, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Eastern China experienced persistent regional extreme heatwaves in the summer of 2022,
with disparate spatial features and formation mechanisms in different months. We …

How unusual is the 2022 European compound drought and heatwave event?

KP Tripathy, AK Mishra - Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The 2022 Compound Drought and Heatwave (CDHW) caused widespread crop
damage, water shortages, and wildfires across Europe. Our study analyzed this event's …

Quantifying the influence of global warming on unprecedented extreme climate events

NS Diffenbaugh, D Singh, JS Mankin… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Efforts to understand the influence of historical global warming on individual extreme climate
events have increased over the past decade. However, despite substantial progress, events …

[HTML][HTML] Temperature and humidity based projections of a rapid rise in global heat stress exposure during the 21st century

ED Coffel, RM Horton… - Environmental Research …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
As a result of global increases in both temperature and specific humidity, heat stress is
projected to intensify throughout the 21st century. Some of the regions most susceptible to …

Attribution of extreme weather and climate‐related events

PA Stott, N Christidis, FEL Otto, Y Sun… - Wiley …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Extreme weather and climate‐related events occur in a particular place, by definition,
infrequently. It is therefore challenging to detect systematic changes in their occurrence …

Attribution of climate extreme events

KE Trenberth, JT Fasullo, TG Shepherd - Nature climate change, 2015 - nature.com
There is a tremendous desire to attribute causes to weather and climate events that is often
challenging from a physical standpoint. Headlines attributing an event solely to either …

A review on the scientific understanding of heatwaves—Their measurement, driving mechanisms, and changes at the global scale

SE Perkins - Atmospheric Research, 2015 - Elsevier
Heatwaves impose disastrous impacts over human, natural and industrial systems across
the globe. Over a relatively short period of time, there has been considerable advancement …