[HTML][HTML] Heat waves in summer 2022 and increasing concern regarding heat waves in general

R Lu, K Xu, R Chen, W Chen, F Li, C Lv - Atmospheric and Oceanic …, 2023 - Elsevier
The year 2022 featured an unprecedented hot summer that has attracted worldwide
attention. Abnormal warming spread over most of the Eurasian continent and North America …

[HTML][HTML] Local mechanisms for global daytime, nighttime, and compound heatwaves

S Wu, M Luo, R Zhao, J Li, P Sun, Z Liu… - npj Climate and …, 2023 - nature.com
Heatwaves impose serious impacts on ecosystems, human health, agriculture, and energy
consumption. Previous studies have classified heatwaves into independent daytime …

Amplified urban heat islands during heat wave periods

S Jiang, X Lee, J Wang, K Wang - Journal of Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Heat waves and urban heat islands (UHIs) may interact together, but the dependence of
their interaction on background climate is unclear. Hourly meteorological observations in …

Research progress on the synergies between heat waves and canopy urban heat island and their driving factors

T Shi, L Liu, XC Wen, P Qi - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Under the background of global warming and accelerating urbanization, the interaction
between heat waves (HWs) and canopy urban heat island (CUHI) has become one of the …

The unprecedented 2023 North China heatwaves and their S2S predictability

H **ao, P Xu, L Wang - Geophysical Research Letters, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study unravels the characteristics, mechanisms, and predictability of four consecutive
record‐breaking heatwaves hitting North China in June and July 2023. The first three …

Marine heatwave events near Weizhou Island, Beibu Gulf in 2020 and their possible relations to coral bleaching

Y Feng, BJ Bethel, C Dong, H Zhao, Y Yao… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are events of anomalously high sea surface temperatures lasting
for five days or more and have recently been linked to widespread environmental stress on …

Regional climate modeling for Asia

DK Lee, DH Cha - Geoscience Letters, 2020 - Springer
The regional climate model (RCM) with higher resolution and sophisticated physical
processes can reproduce and project fine-scale climate information, which cannot be …

Contrasting interactions between urban heat islands and heat waves in Seoul, South Korea, and their associations with synoptic patterns

K Park, HG **, JJ Baik - Urban Climate, 2023 - Elsevier
This study investigates the interactions between urban heat islands (UHIs) and heat waves
in Seoul, South Korea, using 25-year (1997–2021) observations. Under heat waves, South …

Does the meteorological origin of heat waves influence their impact on health? A 6-year morbidity and mortality study in Madrid (Spain)

R Ruiz-Páez, J Díaz, JA López-Bueno… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Background In Spain, two synoptic-scale conditions influence heat wave formation.
The first involves advection of warm and dry air masses carrying dust of Saharan origin …

Analysis of urban heat island and heat waves using Sentinel-3 images: a study of Andalusian Cities in Spain

DH García - Earth Systems and Environment, 2022 - Springer
At present, understanding the synergies between the Surface Urban Heat Island (SUHI)
phenomenon and extreme climatic events entailing high mortality, ie, heat waves, is a great …