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 …

Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene

BI Cook, JE Smerdon, ER Cook, AP Williams… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Exceptional drought events, known as megadroughts, have occurred on every continent
outside Antarctica over the past~ 2,000 years, causing major ecological and societal …

El Niño–southern oscillation complexity

A Timmermann, SI An, JS Kug, FF Jin, W Cai… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
El Niño events are characterized by surface warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean and
weakening of equatorial trade winds that occur every few years. Such conditions are …

Global impacts of recent Southern Ocean cooling

SM Kang, Y Yu, C Deser, X Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Since the beginning of the satellite era, Southern Ocean sea surface temperatures (SSTs)
have cooled, despite global warming. While observed Southern Ocean cooling has …

[HTML][HTML] Tropical cyclones and climate change assessment: Part II: Projected response to anthropogenic warming

T Knutson, SJ Camargo, JCL Chan… - Bulletin of the …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change Assessment: Part II: Projected Response to
Anthropogenic Warming in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Volume 101 …

Strengthening tropical Pacific zonal sea surface temperature gradient consistent with rising greenhouse gases

R Seager, M Cane, N Henderson, DE Lee… - Nature Climate …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract As exemplified by El Niño, the tropical Pacific Ocean strongly influences regional
climates and their variability worldwide,–. It also regulates the rate of global temperature rise …

The influence of Arctic amplification on mid-latitude summer circulation

D Coumou, G Di Capua, S Vavrus, L Wang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Accelerated warming in the Arctic, as compared to the rest of the globe, might have profound
impacts on mid-latitude weather. Most studies analyzing Arctic links to mid-latitude weather …

The teleconnection of El Niño Southern Oscillation to the stratosphere

DIV Domeisen, CI Garfinkel… - Reviews of Geophysics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
El Niño and La Niña events in the tropical Pacific have significant and disrupting impacts on
the global atmospheric and oceanic circulation. El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) …

Interbasin and interhemispheric impacts of a collapsed Atlantic Overturning Circulation

B Orihuela-Pinto, MH England, AS Taschetto - Nature Climate Change, 2022 - nature.com
Climate projections suggest a weakening or collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning
Circulation (AMOC) under global warming, with evidence that a slowdown is already …

ENSO atmospheric teleconnections and their response to greenhouse gas forcing

SW Yeh, W Cai, SK Min, MJ McPhaden… - Reviews of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
El Niño and Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the most prominent year‐to‐year climate
fluctuation on Earth, alternating between anomalously warm (El Niño) and cold (La Niña) …