Compound droughts and hot extremes: Characteristics, drivers, changes, and impacts

Z Hao, F Hao, Y **a, S Feng, C Sun, X Zhang, Y Fu… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Compound droughts and hot events or extremes (CDHEs) may lead to larger repercussions
than do individual extremes. Due to the disastrous impacts and increased risk of these …

Consideration of compound drivers and impacts in the disaster risk reduction cycle

BJJM van den Hurk, CJ White, AM Ramos, PJ Ward… - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Consideration of compound drivers and impacts are often missing from applications within
the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) cycle, leading to poorer understanding of risk and …

[HTML][HTML] Heatwaves, droughts, and fires: Exploring compound and cascading dry hazards at the pan-European scale

SJ Sutanto, C Vitolo, C Di Napoli, M D'Andrea… - Environment …, 2020 - Elsevier
Compound and cascading natural hazards usually cause more severe impacts than any of
the single hazard events alone. Despite the significant impacts of compound hazards, many …

ERA5‐HEAT: a global gridded historical dataset of human thermal comfort indices from climate reanalysis

C Di Napoli, C Barnard, C Prudhomme… - Geoscience data …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The mean radiant temperature (MRT) and the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) are
widely used as human biometeorology parameters to assess the linkages between outdoor …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of the ERA5 reanalysis-based Universal Thermal Climate Index on mortality data in Europe

A Urban, C Di Napoli, HL Cloke, J Kyselý… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Air temperature has been the most commonly used exposure metric in assessing
relationships between thermal stress and mortality. Lack of the high-quality meteorological …

[HTML][HTML] GIS-based methodology for prioritization of preparedness interventions on road transport under wildfire events

E Arango, M Nogal, HS Sousa, JC Matos… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Climate change is leading to a rise in the occurrence and intensity of wildfires, exacerbated
by the growing encroachment of communities into the natural environment, posing …

Towards improved understanding of cascading and interconnected risks from concurrent weather extremes: Analysis of historical heat and drought extreme events

L Niggli, C Huggel, V Muccione, R Neukom… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Weather extremes can affect many different assets, sectors and systems of the human
environment, including human security, health and well-being. Weather extremes that …

[HTML][HTML] Hotspots, co-occurrence, and shifts of compound and cascading extreme climate events in Eurasian drylands

H Yu, N Lu, B Fu, L Zhang, M Wang, H Tian - Environment International, 2022 - Elsevier
Eurasian drylands are the regions that are most vulnerable to climate change. Climate
extremes have caused enormous or even devastating impacts on ecosystems and the social …

Climate change, forest fires, and territorial dynamics in the Amazon rainforest: an integrated analysis for mitigation strategies

N Celis, A Casallas, EA Lopez-Barrera… - … International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Recent times have witnessed wildfires causing harm to both ecological communities and
urban–rural regions, underscoring the necessity to comprehend wildfire triggers and assess …

[HTML][HTML] Combined and delayed impacts of epidemics and extreme weather on urban mobility recovery

H Liu, J Wang, J Liu, Y Ge, X Wang, C Zhang… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The ever-increasing pandemic and natural disasters might spatial-temporal overlap to
trigger compound disasters that disrupt urban life, including human movements. In this …