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Weather and Climate Extremes, 2023 The intensity, frequency, and duration of heatwaves are increasing worldwide. Still, heatwaves are systematically underreported and underresearched across the African continent. This study examines heatwaves across Mozambique, a country highly vulnerable
Carolina Pereira Marghidan +6 more
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Social Sensing of Heatwaves [PDF]
Sensors, 2021 Heatwaves cause thousands of deaths every year, yet the social impacts of heat are poorly measured. Temperature alone is not sufficient to measure impacts and “heatwaves” are defined differently in different cities/countries. This study used data from the microblogging platform Twitter to detect different scales of response and varying attitudes to ...
James C. Young +3 more
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Data in Brief, 2022 Processed marine heatwave metrics are provided for the tropical western and central Pacific Ocean region (120°E-140°W, 40°S-15°N). The metrics are computed from daily sea surface temperature (SST) data, from both observations and models.
Jules B. Kajtar +3 more
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Weather and Climate Extremes, 2023 A record-breaking heatwave event occurred in western North America in the summer of 2021. Previous studies on a similar event's uniqueness and return period are typically estimated based on extreme value analysis and statistics of selected stations or ...
Shih-How Lo +4 more
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Environmental Research Letters, 2023 An extreme heatwave, in terms of intensity and duration, is projected to occur at the end of the 21st century (2071–2100) over the whole of East Asia.
Young-Hyun Kim +7 more
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Identification and Analysis of Heatwave Events Considering Temporal Continuity and Spatial Dynamics
Remote Sensing, 2023 In the context of global warming, the general increase in temperature has led to an increase in heatwave events, as well as a dramatic intensification of economic losses and social risks.
Yanqun Ren +9 more
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Understanding the variability of heatwave characteristics in southern Africa
Weather and Climate Extremes, 2022 Southern Africa is among the regions facing the impacts of weather-related extremes (e.g., droughts, floods and heatwaves). In this study we investigate the spatial and temporal variability of heatwave characteristics (duration, number, frequency ...
Arlindo Meque +3 more
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Anatomy of Indian heatwaves [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2016 AbstractIndia suffers from major heatwaves during March-June. The rising trend of number of intense heatwaves in recent decades has been vaguely attributed to global warming. Since the heat waves have a serious effect on human mortality, root causes of these heatwaves need to be clarified.
Ratnam, J. V. +4 more
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Top ten European heatwaves since 1950 and their occurrence in the coming decades
Environmental Research Letters, 2015 The Russian heatwave in 2010 killed tens of thousands of people, and was by far the worst event in Europe since at least 1950, according to recent studies and a novel universal heatwave index capturing both the duration and magnitude of heatwaves.
Simone Russo +2 more
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Flash drought development and cascading impacts associated with the 2010 Russian heatwave
Environmental Research Letters, 2020 The 2010 western Russian heatwave was characterized by historically high surface temperatures that led to devastating impacts on the environment, economy, and society.
Jordan I Christian +4 more
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