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 …

Extreme weather and climate change: population health and health system implications

KL Ebi, J Vanos, JW Baldwin, JE Bell… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Extreme weather and climate events, such as heat waves, cyclones, and floods, are an
expression of climate variability. These events and events influenced by climate change …

Accelerated western European heatwave trends linked to more-persistent double jets over Eurasia

E Rousi, K Kornhuber, G Beobide-Arsuaga… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Persistent heat extremes can have severe impacts on ecosystems and societies, including
excess mortality, wildfires, and harvest failures. Here we identify Europe as a heatwave …

Global concurrent climate extremes exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change

S Zhou, B Yu, Y Zhang - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Increases in concurrent climate extremes in different parts of the world threaten the
ecosystem and our society. However, spatial patterns of these extremes and their past and …

Weather and climate extreme events in a changing climate

SI Seneviratne, X Zhang, M Adnan, W Badi… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
Caption: Table A. 11. 2. Synthesis table summarising assessments presented in Tables 11.4-
11.21 for hot extremes (HOT EXT.), heavy precipitation (HEAVY PRECIP.), agriculture and …

[HTML][HTML] Extreme weather impacts of climate change: an attribution perspective

B Clarke, F Otto, R Stuart-Smith… - Environmental Research …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Extreme event attribution aims to elucidate the link between global climate change, extreme
weather events, and the harms experienced on the ground by people, property, and nature …

Risks of synchronized low yields are underestimated in climate and crop model projections

K Kornhuber, C Lesk, CF Schleussner… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Simultaneous harvest failures across major crop-producing regions are a threat to global
food security. Concurrent weather extremes driven by a strongly meandering jet stream …

[HTML][HTML] A framework for complex climate change risk assessment

NP Simpson, KJ Mach, A Constable, J Hess, R Hogarth… - One Earth, 2021 - cell.com
Real-world experience underscores the complexity of interactions among multiple drivers of
climate change risk and of how multiple risks compound or cascade. However, a holistic …

Different mechanisms for the extremely hot central-eastern China in July–August 2022 from a Eurasian large-scale circulation perspective

Z Wang, H Luo, S Yang - Environmental Research Letters, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract In July and August of 2022, unprecedented and long-lasting heatwaves attacked
central and eastern China (CEC); and the most affected area was in the Yangtze River (YR) …

A typology of compound weather and climate events

J Zscheischler, O Martius, S Westra… - Nature reviews earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Compound weather and climate events describe combinations of multiple climate drivers
and/or hazards that contribute to societal or environmental risk. Although many climate …