Recent heatwaves as a prelude to climate extremes in the western Mediterranean region

E Tejedor, G Benito, R Serrano-Notivoli… - npj Climate and …, 2024 - nature.com
The 2022 and 2023 western Mediterranean summer temperatures exceeded millennial
natural variability, reaching unprecedented anomalies of+ 3.6° C and+ 2.9° C respectively …

Pyrenean glaciers are disappearing fast: state of the glaciers after the extreme mass losses in 2022 and 2023

E Izagirre, J Revuelto, I Vidaller… - Regional Environmental …, 2024 - Springer
Given rapid glacier thinning and retreat observed in the Pyrenees in recent decades, an
updated glacier inventory and continuous mass balance assessments are important to …

Enhancing the performance of syngas-diesel dual-fuel engines by optimizing injection regimes: From comparative analysis to control strategy proposal

VG Bui, TMT Bui, MT Nguyen, PN Do, NAH Tran… - Process Safety and …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study introduced an innovative technology of syngas direct injection through the
twinning injector system. This technology can simultaneously adjust the equivalence ratio …

[HTML][HTML] Defining weather scenarios for simulation-based assessment of thermal resilience of buildings under current and future climates: A case study in Brazil

AF Krelling, R Lamberts, J Malik, W Zhang… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2024 - Elsevier
In response to increasingly severe weather conditions, optimization of building performance
and investment provides an opportunity to consider co-benefits of thermal resilience during …

[HTML][HTML] Recent summer warming over the western Mediterranean region is unprecedented since medieval times

U Büntgen, F Reinig, A Verstege, A Piermattei… - Global and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Contextualising anthropogenic warming and investigating linkages between past climate
variability and human history require high-resolution temperature reconstructions that …

Major role of marine heatwave and anthropogenic climate change on a Giant hail Event in Spain

ML Martín, C Calvo‐Sancho, M Taszarek… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A severe hailstorm that occurred in Spain on 30 August 2022, caused material and human
damage, including one fatality due to giant hailstones up to 12 cm in diameter. By applying a …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring indoor thermal comfort and its causes and consequences amid heatwaves in a Southern European city—An unsupervised learning approach

J Gamero-Salinas, D López-Hernández… - Building and …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study investigates indoor thermal comfort during heatwaves in dwellings of the
Southern European city of Pamplona, Spain. Utilizing K-means and Hierarchical clustering …

[HTML][HTML] Heat index historical trends and projections due to climate change in the Mediterranean basin based on CMIP6

I Alvarez, A Diaz-Poso, MN Lorenzo, D Roye - Atmospheric Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Air temperature and relative humidity can be considered as two essential meteorological
parameters in the determination of heat stress. The heat index (HI) includes both of them …

Unravelling the atmospheric dynamics involved in flash drought development over Spain

I Noguera, F Domínguez‐Castro… - International Journal …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Flash droughts (FDs) are distinguished by a rapid development associated with strong
precipitation deficits and/or increases in atmospheric evaporative demand in the short‐term …

[HTML][HTML] The 2022 record-high heat waves over southwestern Europe and their underlying mechanism

JH Kim, SH Nam, MK Kim, R Serrano-Notivoli… - Weather and Climate …, 2024 - Elsevier
Recently, the intensity and frequency of heat waves (HWs) have been increased worldwide.
Particularly in 2022, Europe was severely affected by unprecedented HWs, which caused …