Anthropogenically-driven increases in the risks of summertime compound hot extremes

Compound hot extremes that combine day- and nighttime heat have particularly strong impacts. Here, the authors show that anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases have made compound hot extremes increasingly frequent and intense, and project that under future emissions four to eight times as many...

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Main Authors: Jun Wang, Yang Chen, Simon F. B. Tett, Zhongwei Yan, Panmao Zhai, Jinming Feng, Jiangjiang Xia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14233-8