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 …

A review of recent advances in research on extreme heat events

RM Horton, JS Mankin, C Lesk, E Coffel… - Current Climate Change …, 2016 - Springer
Reviewing recent literature, we report that changes in extreme heat event characteristics
such as magnitude, frequency, and duration are highly sensitive to changes in mean global …

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 …

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 …

Changes in annual extremes of daily temperature and precipitation in CMIP6 models

C Li, F Zwiers, X Zhang, G Li, Y Sun… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Changes in Annual Extremes of Daily Temperature and Precipitation in CMIP6 Models in: Journal
of Climate Volume 34 Issue 9 (2021) Jump to Content Logo Logo Logo Logo Logo Logo …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of the CMIP6 multi-model ensemble for climate extreme indices

YH Kim, SK Min, X Zhang, J Sillmann… - Weather and Climate …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study evaluates global climate models participating in the Coupled Model
Intercomparison Project phase 6 (CMIP6) for their performance in simulating the climate …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding, modeling and predicting weather and climate extremes: Challenges and opportunities

J Sillmann, T Thorarinsdottir, N Keenlyside… - Weather and climate …, 2017 - Elsevier
Weather and climate extremes are identified as major areas necessitating further progress in
climate research and have thus been selected as one of the World Climate Research …

The performance of CMIP6 versus CMIP5 in simulating temperature extremes over the global land surface

X Fan, C Miao, Q Duan, C Shen… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Simulations from the models participating in the sixth phase of the Coupled Model
Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), which represent the most recent generation of climate …

Understanding human influence on climate change in China

Y Sun, X Zhang, Y Ding, D Chen, D Qin… - National science …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
China's climate has been warming since the 1950s, with surface air temperature increasing
at a rate higher than the global average. Changes in climate have exerted substantial …

Characterization of long period return values of extreme daily temperature and precipitation in the CMIP6 models: Part 1, model evaluation

M Wehner, P Gleckler, J Lee - Weather and Climate Extremes, 2020 - Elsevier
Using a non-stationary Generalized Extreme Value statistical method, we calculate selected
extreme daily temperature and precipitation indices and their 20 year return values from the …