Satellite remote sensing of global land surface temperature: Definition, methods, products, and applications

ZL Li, H Wu, SB Duan, W Zhao, H Ren… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Land surface temperature (LST) is a crucial parameter that reflects land–atmosphere
interaction and has thus attracted wide interest from geoscientists. Owing to the rapid …

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 …

Accelerated western European heatwave trends linked to more-persistent double jets over Eurasia

E Rousi, K Kornhuber, G Beobide-Arsuaga… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Persistent heat extremes can have severe impacts on ecosystems and societies, including
excess mortality, wildfires, and harvest failures. Here we identify Europe as a heatwave …

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 …

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 …

Increasing trends in regional heatwaves

SE Perkins-Kirkpatrick, SC Lewis - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Heatwaves have increased in intensity, frequency and duration, with these trends projected
to worsen under enhanced global warming. Understanding regional heatwave trends has …

Globally unequal effect of extreme heat on economic growth

CW Callahan, JS Mankin - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
Increased extreme heat is among the clearest impacts of global warming, but the economic
effects of heat waves are poorly understood. Using subnational economic data, extreme …

Marine heatwaves

ECJ Oliver, JA Benthuysen, S Darmaraki… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Ocean temperature variability is a fundamental component of the Earth's climate system, and
extremes in this variability affect the health of marine ecosystems around the world. The …

The most at-risk regions in the world for high-impact heatwaves

V Thompson, D Mitchell, GC Hegerl, M Collins… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Heatwaves are becoming more frequent under climate change and can lead to thousands of
excess deaths. Adaptation to extreme weather events often occurs in response to an event …

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 …