Compound droughts and hot extremes: Characteristics, drivers, changes, and impacts

Z Hao, F Hao, Y Xia, S Feng, C Sun, X Zhang, Y Fu… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Global concurrent climate extremes exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change

S Zhou, B Yu, Y Zhang - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Increases in concurrent climate extremes in different parts of the world threaten the
ecosystem and our society. However, spatial patterns of these extremes and their past and …

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 …

The 2021 western North America heat wave among the most extreme events ever recorded globally

V Thompson, AT Kennedy-Asser, E Vosper, YTE Lo… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
In June 2021, western North America experienced a record-breaking heat wave outside the
distribution of previously observed temperatures. While it is clear that the event was extreme …

Anthropogenic drought: Definition, challenges, and opportunities

A AghaKouchak, A Mirchi, K Madani, G Di Baldassarre… - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Traditional, mainstream definitions of drought describe it as deficit in water‐related variables
or water‐dependent activities (eg, precipitation, soil moisture, surface and groundwater …

Europe (Chapter 13)

B Bednar-Friedl, R Biesbroek, DN Schmidt… - 2022 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
Our current 1.1° C warmer world is already affecting natural and human systems in Europe
(very high confidence1). Since AR5, there has been a substantial increase in detected or …

How unusual is the 2022 European compound drought and heatwave event?

KP Tripathy, AK Mishra - Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The 2022 Compound Drought and Heatwave (CDHW) caused widespread crop
damage, water shortages, and wildfires across Europe. Our study analyzed this event's …

Tree mortality of European beech and Norway spruce induced by 2018-2019 hot droughts in central Germany

N Obladen, P Dechering, G Skiadaresis… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2021 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic climate change pushes forest ecosystems globally beyond their limits.
Widespread events of forest die-off have been attributed to direct and indirect impacts of …

Why was the heat wave in the Yangtze River valley abnormally intensified in late summer 2022?

D Zhang, L Chen, Y Yuan, J Zuo… - Environmental Research …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
A record-breaking heat wave hit the Yangtze River valley during the boreal summer of 2022,
and caused severe social and economic losses. One prominent feature of this long-lived …

Recent increasing frequency of compound summer drought and heatwaves in Southeast Brazil

JL Geirinhas, A Russo, R Libonati… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
An increase in the frequency of extremely hot and dry events has been experienced over the
past few decades in South America, and particularly in Brazil. Regional climate change …