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 …

Prediction and projection of heatwaves

DIV Domeisen, EAB Eltahir, EM Fischer… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Heatwaves constitute a major threat to human health and ecosystems. Projected increases
in heatwave frequency and severity thus lead to the need for prediction to enhance …

[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 …

Classic and exertional heatstroke

A Bouchama, B Abuyassin, C Lehe, O Laitano… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
In the past two decades, record-breaking heatwaves have caused an increasing number of
heat-related deaths, including heatstroke, globally. Heatstroke is a heat illness characterized …

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 …

Increasing probability of record-shattering climate extremes

EM Fischer, S Sippel, R Knutti - Nature Climate Change, 2021 - nature.com
Recent climate extremes have broken long-standing records by large margins. Such
extremes unprecedented in the observational period often have substantial impacts due to a …

The 2021 western North America heat wave among the most extreme events ever recorded globally

V Thompson, AT Kennedy-Asser, E Vosper, YTE Lo… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
In June 2021, western North America experienced a record-breaking heat wave outside the
distribution of previously observed temperatures. While it is clear that the event was extreme …

Globally unequal effect of extreme heat on economic growth

CW Callahan, JS Mankin - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
Increased extreme heat is among the clearest impacts of global warming, but the economic
effects of heat waves are poorly understood. Using subnational economic data, extreme …

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) …

[PDF][PDF] Europe: from Chapters and Cross-Chapter Papers

B Bednar-Friedl, GR Biesbroek, DN Schmidt… - Climate Change 2022 …, 2022 - edepot.wur.nl
Our current 1.1 C warmer world is already affecting natural and human systems in Europe
(very high confidence1). Since AR5, there has been a substantial increase in detected or …