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Climate Change Increased the Likelihood of the 2016 Heat Extremes in Asia

Summary/Abstract

This article describes how the 2016 extreme warmth across Asia would not have been possible without climate change, and how the 2015/16 El Niño also contributed to regional warm extremes over Southeast Asia and the Maritime Continent.

Yukiko Imada et al., Climate Change Increased the Likelihood of the 2016 Heat Extremes in Asia, in BAMS 2016.

Link to Full Article
March 2018
Yukiko Imada, Hideo Shiogama, Chiharu Takahashi, Masahiro Watanabe, Masato Mori, Youichi Kamae, Shuhei Maeda
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS)
Peer-reviewed Study
Asia
Extreme Event Attribution → Extreme Heat

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