Future climate risk from compound events

J Zscheischler, S Westra, BJJM Van Den Hurk… - Nature climate …, 2018 - nature.com
Floods, wildfires, heatwaves and droughts often result from a combination of interacting
physical processes across multiple spatial and temporal scales. The combination of …

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 …

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 …

An evaluation of ERA5 precipitation for climate monitoring

DA Lavers, A Simmons, F Vamborg… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A key aim of climate monitoring is to place the current conditions of climate variables, such
as surface air temperature and precipitation, in their historical context. In Europe, a leading …

More extreme precipitation in the world's dry and wet regions

MG Donat, AL Lowry, LV Alexander… - Nature Climate …, 2016 - nature.com
Intensification of the hydrological cycle is expected to accompany a warming climate,. It has
been suggested that changes in the spatial distribution of precipitation will amplify …

A hierarchical approach to defining marine heatwaves

AJ Hobday, LV Alexander, SE Perkins, DA Smale… - Progress in …, 2016 - Elsevier
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) have been observed around the world and are expected to
increase in intensity and frequency under anthropogenic climate change. A variety of …

Bias correction of GCM precipitation by quantile map**: how well do methods preserve changes in quantiles and extremes?

AJ Cannon, SR Sobie, TQ Murdock - Journal of Climate, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
Quantile map** bias correction algorithms are commonly used to correct systematic
distributional biases in precipitation outputs from climate models. Although they are effective …

Future changes to the intensity and frequency of short‐duration extreme rainfall

S Westra, HJ Fowler, JP Evans… - Reviews of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Evidence that extreme rainfall intensity is increasing at the global scale has strengthened
considerably in recent years. Research now indicates that the greatest increases are likely …

[HTML][HTML] Recent climate and hydrological changes in a mountain–basin system in **njiang, China

J Yao, Y Chen, X Guan, Y Zhao, J Chen, W Mao - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
**njiang, China, is a representative arid region in Central Asia that is characterized by a
unique mountain–basin structure and fragile mountain–oasis–desert ecosystems. Climate …

Climate extremes indices in the CMIP5 multimodel ensemble: Part 2. Future climate projections

J Sillmann, VV Kharin, FW Zwiers… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This study provides an overview of projected changes in climate extremes indices defined
by the Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices (ETCCDI). The temperature …