Weather and climate extreme events in a changing climate (Chapter 11)

SI Seneviratne, X Zhang, M Adnan, W Badi… - 2021 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
This chapter assesses changes in weather and climate extremes on regional and global
scales, including observed changes and their attribution, as well as projected changes. The …

Insight from CMIP6 SSP-RCP scenarios for future drought characteristics in China

B Su, J Huang, SK Mondal, J Zhai, Y Wang, S Wen… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, future drought characteristics (frequency, duration and intensity) over China
are analysed by using four climate models from CMIP6 under the seven SSP-RCP (shared …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of extreme precipitation climate indices and their projected changes for Brazil: From CMIP3 to CMIP6

FJ de Medeiros, CP de Oliveira, A Avila-Diaz - Weather and Climate …, 2022 - Elsevier
Extreme events usually cause numerous economic and social losses, especially in
vulnerable countries, such as Brazil. Understanding whether the evolution of Earth System …

Drylands face potential threat of robust drought in the CMIP6 SSPs scenarios

H Li, Z Li, Y Chen, Y Xiang, Y Liu… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
In an increasingly globalized and warming world, drought can have devastating impacts on
regional agriculture, water resources, and the ecological environment. Reliable prediction of …

Biases beyond the mean in CMIP6 extreme precipitation: A global investigation

HM Abdelmoaty, SM Papalexiou, CR Rajulapati… - Earth's …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Climate models are crucial for assessing climate variability and change. A reliable model for
future climate should reasonably simulate the historical climate. Here, we assess the …

Evaluation of CMIP6 global climate models for simulating land surface energy and water fluxes during 1979–2014

J Li, C Miao, W Wei, G Zhang, L Hua… - Journal of Advances …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This study examined the overall performance of the climate models in Phase 6 of the
Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) in simulating the key energy and water …

Projected changes in temperature and precipitation over mainland Southeast Asia by CMIP6 models

S Supharatid, J Nafung, T Aribarg - Journal of Water and Climate …, 2022 - iwaponline.com
Five mainland SEA countries (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, and Thailand) are
threatened by climate change. Here, the latest 18 Coupled Model Intercomparison Project …

[HTML][HTML] Increases in extreme precipitation over the Northeast United States using high-resolution climate model simulations

BT Jong, TL Delworth, WF Cooke, KC Tseng… - npj Climate and …, 2023 - nature.com
Extreme precipitation is among the most destructive natural disasters. Simulating changes in
regional extreme precipitation remains challenging, partially limited by climate models' …

[HTML][HTML] Regional extreme precipitation index: Evaluations and projections from the multi-model ensemble CMIP5 over Thailand

S Rojpratak, S Supharatid - Weather and Climate Extremes, 2022 - Elsevier
Various climate extreme events in Thailand such as more recurrent and more intense floods,
droughts, tropical storms, and extreme rainfall events pose increasing threats to the …

A vine copula‐based polynomial chaos framework for improving multi‐model hydroclimatic projections at a multi‐decadal convection‐permitting scale

B Zhang, S Wang, Y Qing, J Zhu… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Physically based hydrologic models have been extensively used for hydroclimatic
projections, but key challenges remain owing to the heavy computational burden and …