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 …

Anthropogenic forcing has increased the risk of longer-traveling and slower-moving large contiguous heatwaves

M Luo, S Wu, GNC Lau, T Pei, Z Liu, X Wang… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Heatwaves are consecutive hot days with devastating impacts on human health and the
environment. These events may evolve across both space and time, characterizing a …

Compound hydrometeorological extremes: drivers, mechanisms and methods

W Zhang, M Luo, S Gao, W Chen, V Hari… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Compound extremes pose immense challenges and hazards to communities, and this is
particularly true for compound hydrometeorological extremes associated with deadly floods …

[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 …

An observational investigation of spatiotemporally contiguous heatwaves in China from a 3D perspective

M Luo, NC Lau, Z Liu, S Wu… - Geophysical Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the evolution of heatwaves is important for their prediction, mitigation, and
adaptation. While most studies focused on either their temporal variability at individual …

[HTML][HTML] Different mechanisms for daytime, nighttime, and compound heatwaves in southern China

M Luo, NC Lau, Z Liu - Weather and Climate Extremes, 2022 - Elsevier
Heatwaves often cause immense stress on human society and the natural environment.
While heatwaves can be classified into daytime, nighttime, and compound daytime-nighttime …

Heat waves accelerate the spread of infectious diseases

X Lian, J Huang, H Li, Y He, Z Ouyang, S Fu… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
COVID-19 pandemic appeared summer surge in 2022 worldwide and this contradicts its
seasonal fluctuations. Even as high temperature and intense ultraviolet radiation can inhibit …

Intensification of heatwaves in China in recent decades: Roles of climate modes

J Wei, W Han, W Wang, L Zhang… - npj Climate and …, 2023 - nature.com
Modes of climate variability can affect weather extremes, posing intractable challenges to
our environment. However, to what extent climate modes can modulate heatwaves in China …

The interactions between urban heat island and heat waves amplify urban warming in Guangzhou, China: Roles of urban ventilation and local climate zones

F Luo, Y Yang, L Zong, X Bi - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Under the background of global warming, interaction between heat waves (HWs) and urban
heat island (UHI) has led to trends of increase in the intensity, frequency, and duration of …

Amplified intensity and duration of heatwaves by concurrent droughts in China

Z Shi, G Jia, Y Zhou, X Xu, Y Jiang - Atmospheric Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Compound hot-dry climate extremes could lead to severer natural disasters and socio-
economic impacts compared to individual events. An improved understanding of historical …