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 …

The unprecedented Pacific northwest heatwave of June 2021

RH White, S Anderson, JF Booth, G Braich… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
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 …

Development of an updated global land in situ‐based data set of temperature and precipitation extremes: HadEX3

RJH Dunn, LV Alexander, MG Donat… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We present the second update to a data set of gridded land‐based temperature and
precipitation extremes indices: HadEX3. This consists of 17 temperature and 12 precipitation …

Abrupt shift to hotter and drier climate over inner East Asia beyond the tip** point

P Zhang, JH Jeong, JH Yoon, H Kim, SYS Wang… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Unprecedented heatwave-drought concurrences in the past two decades have been
reported over inner East Asia. Tree-ring–based reconstructions of heatwaves and soil …

Unprecedented 21st century heat across the Pacific Northwest of North America

KJ Heeter, GL Harley, JT Abatzoglou… - npj Climate and …, 2023 - nature.com
Extreme summer temperatures are increasingly common across the Northern Hemisphere
and inflict severe socioeconomic and biological consequences. In summer 2021, the Pacific …

The pace of change of summertime temperature extremes

KA McKinnon, IR Simpson, AP Williams - Proceedings of the National …, 2024 - pnas.org
Summer temperature extremes can have large impacts on humans and the biosphere, and
an increase in heat extremes is one of the most visible symptoms of climate change. Multiple …

Temporally compound heat wave events and global warming: An emerging hazard

JW Baldwin, JB Dessy, GA Vecchi… - Earth's Future, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The temporal structure of heat waves having substantial human impact varies widely, with
many featuring a compound structure of hot days interspersed with cooler breaks. In …

How unexpected was the 2021 Pacific Northwest heatwave?

KA McKinnon, IR Simpson - Geophysical Research Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The 2021 Pacific Northwest heatwave featured record‐smashing high
temperatures, raising questions about whether extremes are changing faster than the mean …

2021 North American heatwave amplified by climate change-driven nonlinear interactions

S Bartusek, K Kornhuber, M Ting - Nature Climate Change, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Heat conditions in North America in summer 2021 exceeded previous heatwaves
by margins many would have considered impossible under current climate conditions …

Widespread changes in surface temperature persistence under climate change

J Li, DWJ Thompson - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Climate change has been and will be accompanied by widespread changes in surface
temperature. It is clear that these changes include global-wide increases in mean surface …