Understanding and attribution of extreme heat and drought events in 2022: current situation and future challenges

L Zhang, X Yu, T Zhou, W Zhang, S Hu… - Advances in Atmospheric …, 2023 - Springer
Extreme weather events and their consequential impacts have been a key feature of the
climate in recent years in many parts of the world, with many partly attributed to ongoing …

Dynamic pathway linking Pakistan flooding to East Asian heatwaves

ZH Fu, W Zhou, SP **e, R Zhang, X Wang - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
In July to August 2022, Pakistan suffered historic flooding while record-breaking heatwaves
swept southern China, causing severe socioeconomic impacts. Similar extreme events have …

East Asian summer monsoon delivers large abundances of very short-lived organic chlorine substances to the lower stratosphere

LL Pan, EL Atlas, SB Honomichl, WP Smith… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Deep convection in the Asian summer monsoon is a significant transport process for lifting
pollutants from the planetary boundary layer to the tropopause level. This process enables …

Windows of opportunity for predicting seasonal climate extremes highlighted by the Pakistan floods of 2022

N Dunstone, DM Smith, SC Hardiman, P Davies… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Skilful predictions of near-term climate extremes are key to a resilient society. However,
standard methods of analysing seasonal forecasts are not optimised to identify the rarer and …

An energetics tale of the 2022 mega-heatwave over central-eastern China

T Zhang, Y Deng, J Chen, S Yang, Y Dai - npj Climate and Atmospheric …, 2023 - nature.com
It remains a major challenge to attribute heatwave's lifecycle characteristics quantitatively to
interwoven atmospheric and surface actions. By constructing a process-resolving …

Disentangling the unprecedented Yangtze River basin extreme high temperatures in summer 2022: Combined impacts of the reintensified La Niña and strong positive …

H Huang, Z Zhu, J Li - Journal of Climate, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract During July and August of 2022, the Yangtze River Basin (YRB) experienced its
most extreme high temperature (EHT) event since 1979, resulting in large numbers of …

Unraveling the Indian monsoon's role in fueling the unprecedented 2022 Marine Heatwave in the Western North Pacific

Q Song, C Wang, Y Yao, H Fan - Npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2024 - nature.com
An unprecedented marine heatwave (MHW) event occurred in the middle-high latitudes of
the western North Pacific during the summer of 2022. We demonstrate that excessive …

The extreme heat wave in China in August 2022 related to extreme northward movement of the eastern center of SAH

B Zhou, S Hu, J Peng, D Li, L Ma, Z Zheng… - Atmospheric Research, 2023 - Elsevier
This study reveals the causes of extreme high temperatures in China in August 2022 and the
role of South Asian high (SAH) anomaly. The 2022 extreme heat events in the Tibetan …

Multiscale causes of the 2022 Yangtze mega-flash drought under climate change

X Yuan, Y Wang, S Zhou, H Li, C Li - Science China Earth Sciences, 2024 - Springer
The 2022 Yangtze mega-flash drought is characterized by strong intensity and rapid
development both in time and space, accompanied by a persistent anticyclonic circulation …

Compound successive dry-hot and wet extremes in China with global warming and urbanization

K He, X Chen, J Zhou, D Zhao, X Yu - Journal of Hydrology, 2024 - Elsevier
Global warming has accelerated the interregional hydrological cycle, resulting in a
significant increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme events worldwide. These …