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 …

Background Climate change is one of the great challenges of our time. The consequences
of climate change on exposed biological subjects, as well as on vulnerable societies, are a …

In late June 2021 a heatwave of unprecedented magnitude impacted the Pacific Northwest
region of Canada and the United States. Many locations broke all-time maximum …

In June 2021, western North America experienced a record-breaking heat wave outside the
distribution of previously observed temperatures. While it is clear that the event was extreme …

Abstract During the period 2018–2020, Europe experienced a series of hot and dry weather
conditions with significant socioeconomic and environmental consequences. Yet, the …

The physical understanding and timely prediction of extreme weather events are of
enormous importance to society due to their associated impacts. In this article, we highlight …

Disastrous bushfires during the last months of 2019 and January 2020 affected Australia,
raising the question to what extent the risk of these fires was exacerbated by anthropogenic …

Compound droughts and hot events or extremes (CDHEs) may lead to larger repercussions
than do individual extremes. Due to the disastrous impacts and increased risk of these …

Unprecedented heatwave-drought concurrences in the past two decades have been
reported over inner East Asia. Tree-ring–based reconstructions of heatwaves and soil …

In recent decades, an increasing persistence of atmospheric circulation patterns has been
observed. In the course of the associated long-lasting anticyclonic summer circulations …