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The most at-risk regions in the world for high-impact heatwaves

April 2023
Vikki Thompson, Dann Mitchell, Gabriele C. Hegerl, Matthew Collins, Nicholas J. Leach, Julia M. Slingo
Nature Communications
This peer-reviewed study uses extreme value statistics to show where regional temperature records are statistically likely to be exceeded, and identifies communities that may be more at-risk of high-impact heatwaves.Read More →

Future extreme high-temperature risk in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration of China based on a regional climate model coupled with urban parameterization scheme

April 2023
Yujie Wang, Yang Xiang, Zhenyu Han, and Lianchun Song
Theoretical and Applied Climatology
This peer-reviewed study combines climate models, population models, and models of building energy and location to predict the effect of future intense heat events on populations of the Chinese cities of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei.Read More →

Synthesis Report of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report

March 2023
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
This Synthesis Report summarizes the state of knowledge of climate change, its widespread impacts and risks, and climate change mitigation and adaptation, based on the peer-reviewed scientific, technical and socio-economic literature since 2014.Read More →

Rapid attribution analysis of the extraordinary heat wave on the Pacific coast of the US and Canada in June 2021

December 2022
Sjoukje Y. Philip, Sarah F. Kew, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Faron S. Anslow, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Robert Vautard, Dim Coumou, Kristie L. Ebi, Julie Arrighi, Roop Singh, Maarten van Aalst, Carolina Pereira Marghidan, Michael Wehner, Wenchang Yang, Sihan Li, Dominik L. Schumacher, Mathias Hauser, Rémy Bonnet, Linh N. Luu, Flavio Lehner, Nathan Gillett, Jordis S. Tradowsky, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Chris Rodell, Roland B. Stull, Rosie Howard, and Friederike E. L. Otto
Earth System Dynamics
Towards the end of June 2021, temperature records were broken by several degrees Celsius in several cities in the Pacific Northwest areas of the US and Canada, leading to spikes in sudden deaths and sharp increases in emergency calls and hospital visRead More →

Climate Change Made 2022 Northern Hemisphere Droughts More Likely

October 2022
Dominik L. Schumacher, Mariam Zachariah, Friederike Otto, Clair Barnes, Sjoukje Philip, Sarah Kew, Maja Vahlberg, Roop Singh, Dorothy Heinrich, Julie Arrighi, Maarten van Aalst, Mathias Hauser, Martin Hirschi, Lukas Gudmundsson, Hiroko K. Beaudoing, Matthew Rodell, Sihan Li, Wenchang Yang, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Robert Vautard, Luke J. Harrington, Sonia I. Seneviratne
Worldwide Weather Attribution
This event attribution study analyzes the impact of climate change on droughts across the non-tropical Northern Hemisphere, with a particular focus on West-Central Europe. Read More →