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 …

Causes and changes of drought in China: Research progress and prospects

Q Zhang, Y Yao, Y Li, J Huang, Z Ma, Z Wang… - Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Drought is one of the most serious and extensive natural hazards in the world. Subject to
monsoon climate variability, China is particularly influenced by drought hazards, especially …

[HTML][HTML] Extremely hot East Asia and flooding western South Asia in the summer of 2022 tied to reversed flow over Tibetan Plateau

C He, T Zhou, L Zhang, X Chen, W Zhang - Climate Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
In the summer (July and August) of 2022, unprecedented heat wave occurred along the
Yangtze River Valley (YRV) over East Asia while unprecedented flood occurred over …

Variations in summer marine heatwaves in the South China Sea

Y Yao, C Wang - Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are prolonged anomalous warm seawater events that can
severely impact marine ecosystems and have never been studied previously in the South …

Large-scale climate patterns offer preseasonal hints on the co-occurrence of heat wave and O3 pollution in China

M Gao, F Wang, Y Ding, Z Wu, Y Xu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Heat waves and air pollution extremes exert compounding effects on human health and food
security and may worsen under future climate change. On the basis of reconstructed daily …

[HTML][HTML] Local mechanisms for global daytime, nighttime, and compound heatwaves

S Wu, M Luo, R Zhao, J Li, P Sun, Z Liu… - npj Climate and …, 2023 - nature.com
Heatwaves impose serious impacts on ecosystems, human health, agriculture, and energy
consumption. Previous studies have classified heatwaves into independent daytime …

[HTML][HTML] 中国干旱事件成因和变化规律的研究进展与展望

张强, 姚玉璧, 李耀辉, 黄建平, 马柱国, 王芝兰… - 气象学报, 2020 - html.rhhz.net
干旱是世界上危害最广泛, 最严重的自然灾害之一. 中国地处典型季风气候区,
干旱灾害的影响尤为突出. 国际上对干旱问题已经进行了大量研究, 逐渐由对干旱的定性和表象 …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid rises in the magnitude and risk of extreme regional heat wave events in China

J Wang, Z Yan - Weather and Climate Extremes, 2021 - Elsevier
Increasing occurrence of extreme heat waves poses serious risks to human society and
ecosystems. Past studies generally examined the changes in heat wave characteristics at …

Trends in heat wave related indices in Pakistan

N Khan, S Shahid, T Ismail, K Ahmed… - … research and risk …, 2019 - Springer
Increased frequency and severity of heat wave is one of the immediate and certain impacts
of rising temperature due to global warming. A number of heat wave related indices …

[HTML][HTML] Aerosols overtake greenhouse gases causing a warmer climate and more weather extremes toward carbon neutrality

P Wang, Y Yang, D Xue, L Ren, J Tang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
To mitigate climate warming, many countries have committed to achieve carbon neutrality in
the mid-21st century. Here, we assess the global impacts of changing greenhouse gases …