Climate change and weather extremes in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East

G Zittis, M Almazroui, P Alpert, P Ciais… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Observation‐based and modeling studies have identified the Eastern Mediterranean and
Middle East (EMME) region as a prominent climate change hotspot. While several initiatives …

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 …

Increased occurrence of high impact compound events under climate change

NN Ridder, AM Ukkola, AJ Pitman… - Npj Climate and …, 2022 - nature.com
While compound weather and climate events (CEs) can lead to significant socioeconomic
consequences, their response to climate change is mostly unexplored. We report the first …

Global drought trends and future projections

SM Vicente-Serrano… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Drought is one of the most difficult natural hazards to quantify and is divided into categories
(meteorological, agricultural, ecological and hydrological), which makes assessing recent …

Changes in temporal inequality of precipitation extremes over China due to anthropogenic forcings

W Duan, S Zou, N Christidis, N Schaller… - npj Climate and …, 2022 - nature.com
Based on the Gini-coefficients, this study has presented an analysis of the impacts of
anthropogenic forcing on the temporal inequality (ie, increase in unevenness or disparity) of …

Dynamics and characteristics of dry and moist heatwaves over East Asia

KJ Ha, YW Seo, JH Yeo, A Timmermann… - npj Climate and …, 2022 - nature.com
The increasing frequency of heatwaves over East Asia (EA) is impacting agriculture, water
management, and people's livelihood. However, the effect of humidity on high-temperature …

What does global land climate look like at 2° C warming?

T Park, H Hashimoto, W Wang, B Thrasher… - Earth's …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Constraining an increase in global mean temperature below 2° C compared to pre‐
industrial levels is critical to limiting dangerous and cascading impacts of anthropogenic …

Drivers of accelerated warming in Mediterranean climate-type regions

D Urdiales-Flores, G Zittis, P Had**icolaou… - npj Climate and …, 2023 - nature.com
The near-surface temperature in Mediterranean climate-type regions has increased overall
similarly or more rapidly than the global mean rates. Although these regions have …

Meteorological flash droughts risk projections based on CMIP6 climate change scenarios

V Sreeparvathy, VV Srinivas - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2022 - nature.com
Meteorological flash droughts (MFDs) are sub-seasonal-to-seasonal drought phenomena
characterized by rapid onset/intensification. This study assesses the changes in trends and …

Extreme precipitation indices over India using CMIP6: A special emphasis on the SSP585 scenario

NM Reddy, S Saravanan - Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023 - Springer
In this study, a comparison of 17 Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6)
data sets with Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) data in terms of finding out extreme …