Heat waves (HWs) can cause large socioeconomic and environmental impacts. The
observed increases in their frequency, intensity and duration are projected to continue with …

Compound droughts and hot events or extremes (CDHEs) may lead to larger repercussions
than do individual extremes. Due to the disastrous impacts and increased risk of these …

Plants encounter several biotic and abiotic stresses, usually in combination. This results in
major economic losses in agriculture and forestry every year. Climate change aggravates …

Compound dry-hot extreme (CDHE) events pose greater risks to the environment, society,
and human health than their univariate counterparts. Here, we project decadal-length …

Compound drought and heatwave (CDHW) events have received considerable attention in
recent years due to their devastating effects on human society and ecosystem. In this study …

Human society and ecosystems are impacted by climate extremes more than by climate
averages. In contrast with climate extremes that are driven by individual climatic variables …

Compound extremes pose immense challenges and hazards to communities, and this is
particularly true for compound hydrometeorological extremes associated with deadly floods …

Compound dry-warm events (CDWEs) and compound wet-warm events (CWWEs) may lead
to detrimental impacts on different sectors of human society such as water supply …

Compound hot-dry events have the potential to cause significant damages and propel
socioeconomic systems towards tipping points by overwhelming the ability of natural and …

Weather extremes can affect many different assets, sectors and systems of the human
environment, including human security, health and well-being. Weather extremes that …