Climate extremes and compound hazards in a warming world

A AghaKouchak, F Chiang, LS Huning… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Climate extremes threaten human health, economic stability, and the well-being of natural
and built environments (eg, 2003 European heat wave). As the world continues to warm …

[HTML][HTML] Nonstationary weather and water extremes: a review of methods for their detection, attribution, and management

LJ Slater, B Anderson, M Buechel… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2021 - hess.copernicus.org
Hydroclimatic extremes such as intense rainfall, floods, droughts, heatwaves, and wind or
storms have devastating effects each year. One of the key challenges for society is …

Changing state of the climate system

SK Gulev, PW Thorne, J Ahn, FJ Dentener… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
2 Chapter 2 assesses observed large-scale changes in climate system drivers, key climate
indicators and 3 principal modes of variability. Chapter 3 considers model performance 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 …

An evaluation of ERA5 precipitation for climate monitoring

DA Lavers, A Simmons, F Vamborg… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A key aim of climate monitoring is to place the current conditions of climate variables, such
as surface air temperature and precipitation, in their historical context. In Europe, a leading …

Central and south america

EJ Castellanos, MF Lemos, L Astigarraga, N Chacón… - 2022 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
Central and South America (CSA) is a highly diverse region, both culturally and biologically.
It has one of the highest levels of biodiversity on the planet (Hoorn et al., 2010; Zador et al …

Development of an updated global land in situ‐based data set of temperature and precipitation extremes: HadEX3

RJH Dunn, LV Alexander, MG Donat… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We present the second update to a data set of gridded land‐based temperature and
precipitation extremes indices: HadEX3. This consists of 17 temperature and 12 precipitation …

Rising temperatures erode human sleep globally

K Minor, A Bjerre-Nielsen, SS Jonasdottir, S Lehmann… - One Earth, 2022 - cell.com
Ambient temperatures are rising worldwide, with the greatest increases recorded at night.
Concurrently, the prevalence of insufficient sleep is rising in many populations. Yet it …

Greater vulnerability to warming of marine versus terrestrial ectotherms

ML Pinsky, AM Eikeset, DJ McCauley, JL Payne… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Understanding which species and ecosystems will be most severely affected by warming as
climate change advances is important for guiding conservation and management. Both …

The effects of climate extremes on global agricultural yields

E Vogel, MG Donat, LV Alexander… - Environmental …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Climate extremes, such as droughts or heat waves, can lead to harvest failures and threaten
the livelihoods of agricultural producers and the food security of communities worldwide …