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

Reviewing recent literature, we report that changes in extreme heat event characteristics
such as magnitude, frequency, and duration are highly sensitive to changes in mean global …

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 …

Droughts that exceed the magnitudes of historical variation ranges could occur increasingly
frequently under future climate conditions. However, the time of the emergence of …

Working Group I (WGI) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assesses
the current evidence on the physical science of climate change, evaluating knowledge …

The Arctic is rapidly warming and experiencing tremendous changes in sea ice, ocean and
terrestrial regions. Lack of long-term scientific observations makes it difficult to assess …

Abstract Changes in global fire activity are influenced by a multitude of factors including land‐
cover change, policies, and climatic conditions. This study uses 17 climate models to …

Severe, extreme, and exceptional heat waves, such as those that occurred over the Balkans
(2007), France (2003), or Russia (2010), are associated with increased mortality, human …

Abstract The Paris Agreement calls for global warming to be limited to 1.5–2° C. For the first
time, this study investigates how different regional heatwave characteristics (intensity …

Robust appraisals of climate impacts at different levels of global-mean temperature increase
are vital to guide assessments of dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate …