The interaction of gradual climate trends and extreme weather events since the turn of the
century has triggered complex and, in some cases, catastrophic ecological responses …

Heatwaves impose disastrous impacts over human, natural and industrial systems across
the globe. Over a relatively short period of time, there has been considerable advancement …

Warming associated with urban development will be exacerbated in future years by
temperature increases due to climate change. The strategic implementation of urban green …

A holistic perspective on changing rainfall-driven flood risk is provided for the late 20th and
early 21st centuries. Economic losses from floods have greatly increased, principally driven …

This chapter assesses the causes of observed changes assessed in Chapters 2 to 5 and
uses understanding of physical processes, climate models and statistical approaches. The …

An extreme (weather or climate) event is generally defined as the occurrence of a value of a
weather or climate variable above (or below) a threshold value near the upper (or lower) …

In this study, we present the collation and analysis of the gridded land‐based dataset of
indices of temperature and precipitation extremes: HadEX2. Indices were calculated based …

This paper provides a first overview of the performance of state‐of‐the‐art global climate
models participating in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) in …

Bates, BC, ZW Kundzewicz, S. Wu, and JP Palutikof, Eds., 2008: Climate change and water.
IPCC Tech. Paper 6, 210 pp.[Available online at http://www. ipcc. ch/pdf/technical …

This chapter assesses the scientific literature describing expectations for near-term climate
(present through mid-century). Unless otherwise stated," near-term" change and the …