Beating the urban heat: Situation, background, impacts and the way forward in China

BJ He, J Wang, J Zhu, J Qi - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper reviews urban heat (UrHT) challenges following the SBAR (situation,
background, assessment and recommendation) framework. The results indicate that …

Why was the heat wave in the Yangtze River valley abnormally intensified in late summer 2022?

D Zhang, L Chen, Y Yuan, J Zuo… - Environmental Research …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
A record-breaking heat wave hit the Yangtze River valley during the boreal summer of 2022,
and caused severe social and economic losses. One prominent feature of this long-lived …

Anthropogenic forcing has increased the risk of longer-traveling and slower-moving large contiguous heatwaves

M Luo, S Wu, GNC Lau, T Pei, Z Liu, X Wang… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Heatwaves are consecutive hot days with devastating impacts on human health and the
environment. These events may evolve across both space and time, characterizing a …

[HTML][HTML] Local mechanisms for global daytime, nighttime, and compound heatwaves

S Wu, M Luo, R Zhao, J Li, P Sun, Z Liu… - npj Climate and …, 2023 - nature.com
Heatwaves impose serious impacts on ecosystems, human health, agriculture, and energy
consumption. Previous studies have classified heatwaves into independent daytime …

Opportunities to reduce heat damage in rain-fed wheat crops based on plant breeding and agronomic management

JR Hunt, PT Hayman, RA Richards, JB Passioura - Field Crops Research, 2018 - Elsevier
High temperatures can substantially reduce the yield of rain-fed wheat at any stage of crop
development. They can result in poor establishment, poor floral fertility, inopportune …

Future population exposure to daytime and nighttime heat waves in South Asia

S Ullah, Q You, D Chen, DA Sachindra… - Earth's …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is expected to result in more frequent and intense heat waves (HWs) in
South Asia (SA). The simultaneous increases in temperature and population will exacerbate …

Heatwaves in Southeast Asia and their changes in a warmer world

Z Dong, L Wang, Y Sun, T Hu, A Limsakul… - Earth's …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Based on the observational dataset SA‐OBS and model outputs from the Community Earth
System Model Large Ensemble project, this study investigates heatwaves in Southeast Asia …

An observational investigation of spatiotemporally contiguous heatwaves in China from a 3D perspective

M Luo, NC Lau, Z Liu, S Wu… - Geophysical Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the evolution of heatwaves is important for their prediction, mitigation, and
adaptation. While most studies focused on either their temporal variability at individual …

Rapid rises in the magnitude and risk of extreme regional heat wave events in China

J Wang, Z Yan - Weather and Climate Extremes, 2021 - Elsevier
Increasing occurrence of extreme heat waves poses serious risks to human society and
ecosystems. Past studies generally examined the changes in heat wave characteristics at …

Trends in heat wave related indices in Pakistan

N Khan, S Shahid, T Ismail, K Ahmed… - … research and risk …, 2019 - Springer
Increased frequency and severity of heat wave is one of the immediate and certain impacts
of rising temperature due to global warming. A number of heat wave related indices …