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 …

Divergent consensuses on Arctic amplification influence on midlatitude severe winter weather

J Cohen, X Zhang, J Francis, T Jung, R Kwok… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
The Arctic has warmed more than twice as fast as the global average since the late twentieth
century, a phenomenon known as Arctic amplification (AA). Recently, there have been …

Changing state of the climate system

SK Gulev, PW Thorne, J Ahn, FJ Dentener… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
2 Chapter 2 assesses observed large-scale changes in climate system drivers, key climate
indicators and 3 principal modes of variability. Chapter 3 considers model performance and …

Weather and climate extreme events in a changing climate

SI Seneviratne, X Zhang, M Adnan, W Badi… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
Caption: Table A. 11. 2. Synthesis table summarising assessments presented in Tables 11.4-
11.21 for hot extremes (HOT EXT.), heavy precipitation (HEAVY PRECIP.), agriculture and …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid attribution analysis of the extraordinary heat wave on the Pacific coast of the US and Canada in June 2021

SY Philip, SF Kew, GJ Van Oldenborgh… - Earth System …, 2022 - esd.copernicus.org
Towards the end of June 2021, temperature records were broken by several degrees
Celsius in several cities in the Pacific Northwest areas of the US and Canada, leading to …

Linking Arctic variability and change with extreme winter weather in the United States

J Cohen, L Agel, M Barlow, CI Garfinkel, I White - Science, 2021 - science.org
The Arctic is warming at a rate twice the global average and severe winter weather is
reported to be increasing across many heavily populated mid-latitude regions, but there is …

Atmospheric blocking and weather extremes over the Euro-Atlantic sector–a review

LA Kautz, O Martius, S Pfahl, JG Pinto… - Weather and Climate …, 2021 - wcd.copernicus.org
The physical understanding and timely prediction of extreme weather events are of
enormous importance to society due to their associated impacts. In this article, we highlight …

The polar regions in a 2 C warmer world

E Post, RB Alley, TR Christensen, M Macias-Fauria… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Over the past decade, the Arctic has warmed by 0.75° C, far outpacing the global average,
while Antarctic temperatures have remained comparatively stable. As Earth approaches 2° …

Abrupt shift to hotter and drier climate over inner East Asia beyond the tipping point

P Zhang, JH Jeong, JH Yoon, H Kim, SYS Wang… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Unprecedented heatwave-drought concurrences in the past two decades have been
reported over inner East Asia. Tree-ring–based reconstructions of heatwaves and soil …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change in the Baltic Sea region: a summary

HEM Meier, M Kniebusch, C Dieterich… - Earth System …, 2022 - esd.copernicus.org
Abstract Based on the Baltic Earth Assessment Reports of this thematic issue in Earth
System Dynamics and recent peer-reviewed literature, current knowledge of the effects of …