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 …

The objective of this paper is to review statistical methods, dynamics, modeling efforts, and
trends related to temperature extremes, with a focus upon extreme events of short duration …

Conservation agriculture, drought tolerant maize, and improved legume varieties are key
climate change management strategies for smallholder farmers in southern Africa. Their …

Compound drought and heat event (CDHE) causes severe impacts on agriculture,
ecosystem, and human health. Based on daily maximum surface air temperature and …

Droughts and heatwaves can have profound impacts on society and the environment, which
can be exacerbated by their co-occurrence. However, in China, co-occurrence of droughts …

More Frequent, Longer, and Hotter Heat Waves for Australia in the Twenty-First Century in:
Journal of Climate Volume 27 Issue 15 (2014) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation …

While numerous studies have addressed changes in climate extremes, analyses of
concurrence of climate extremes are scarce, and climate change effects on joint extremes …

Africa is one of the most vulnerable continents to climate change. In the upcoming decades
the occurrence of longer, hotter and more frequent heat waves could have a strong impact …

Wheat grain quality, an important determinant for human nutrition, is often overlooked when
improving crop production for stressed environments. Climate change makes this task more …

Heat waves (HWs) can have disastrous impacts on human activities and natural systems,
and are one of the current foci of scientific research, particularly in the context of global …