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 …

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 …

Evaluation of the large EURO‐CORDEX regional climate model ensemble

R Vautard, N Kadygrov, C Iles, F Boberg… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The use of regional climate model (RCM)‐based projections for providing regional climate
information in a research and climate service contexts is currently expanding very fast. This …

[HTML][HTML] Regional climate downscaling over Europe: perspectives from the EURO-CORDEX community

D Jacob, C Teichmann, S Sobolowski… - Regional environmental …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The European CORDEX (EURO-CORDEX) initiative is a large voluntary effort that
seeks to advance regional climate and Earth system science in Europe. As part of the World …

Coral reef ecosystem services in the Anthropocene

AJ Woodhead, CC Hicks, AV Norström… - Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Coral reefs underpin a range of ecosystem goods and services that contribute to the well‐
being of millions of people. However, tropical coral reefs in the Anthropocene are likely to be …

Will drought events become more frequent and severe in Europe?

J Spinoni, JV Vogt, G Naumann, P Barbosa, A Dosio - 2018 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
As a result of climate change in recent past and unsustainable land management, drought
became one of the most impacting disasters and, with the projected global warming, it is …

Simulation intelligence: Towards a new generation of scientific methods

A Lavin, D Krakauer, H Zenil, J Gottschlich… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The original" Seven Motifs" set forth a roadmap of essential methods for the field of scientific
computing, where a motif is an algorithmic method that captures a pattern of computation …

A hierarchical approach to defining marine heatwaves

AJ Hobday, LV Alexander, SE Perkins, DA Smale… - Progress in …, 2016 - Elsevier
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) have been observed around the world and are expected to
increase in intensity and frequency under anthropogenic climate change. A variety of …

Extreme heat waves under 1.5 C and 2 C global warming

A Dosio, L Mentaschi, EM Fischer… - Environmental research …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Severe, extreme, and exceptional heat waves, such as those that occurred over the Balkans
(2007), France (2003), or Russia (2010), are associated with increased mortality, human …

[HTML][HTML] Operationalizing Digitainability: Encouraging mindfulness to harness the power of digitalization for sustainable development

S Gupta, J Campos Zeballos, G del Río Castro… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Digitalization is globally transforming the world with profound implications. It has enormous
potential to foster progress toward sustainability. However, in its current form, digitalization …