Increasing occurrence of heat waves in the terrestrial Arctic
Heat waves in the Arctic may strongly impact environment and local communities. Recently several indices have been proposed for monitoring environmental changes in the Arctic, but heat waves have not been addressed. By applying a structured approach for evaluating occurrences of periods with excepti...
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| author | Srdjan Dobricic Simone Russo Luca Pozzoli Julian Wilson Elisabetta Vignati |
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| description | Heat waves in the Arctic may strongly impact environment and local communities. Recently several indices have been proposed for monitoring environmental changes in the Arctic, but heat waves have not been addressed. By applying a structured approach for evaluating occurrences of periods with exceptionally high temperatures, this study demonstrates that in the last decades there was an increase of heat wave occurrences over the terrestrial Arctic. The increase is mainly over the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and Greenland that are surrounded by ocean undergoing a sea-ice melting trend, while the Eurasian Arctic shows no significant change in heat wave occurrence. Since 2002 the probability of experiencing heat waves in the Arctic has been similar or even higher than in the middle and low latitudes and heat waves have already started to increasingly threaten local vegetation, ecology, human health and economy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-828ad822c32747a58d780f61687cd9ef2023-08-09T15:02:27ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Letters1748-93262020-01-0115202402210.1088/1748-9326/ab6398Increasing occurrence of heat waves in the terrestrial ArcticSrdjan Dobricic0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2897-7748Simone Russo1Luca Pozzoli2Julian Wilson3Elisabetta Vignati4European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, ItalyEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, ItalyEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, ItalyEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, ItalyEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, ItalyHeat waves in the Arctic may strongly impact environment and local communities. Recently several indices have been proposed for monitoring environmental changes in the Arctic, but heat waves have not been addressed. By applying a structured approach for evaluating occurrences of periods with exceptionally high temperatures, this study demonstrates that in the last decades there was an increase of heat wave occurrences over the terrestrial Arctic. The increase is mainly over the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and Greenland that are surrounded by ocean undergoing a sea-ice melting trend, while the Eurasian Arctic shows no significant change in heat wave occurrence. Since 2002 the probability of experiencing heat waves in the Arctic has been similar or even higher than in the middle and low latitudes and heat waves have already started to increasingly threaten local vegetation, ecology, human health and economy.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6398heat wavearcticsea iceglobal warming |
| spellingShingle | Srdjan Dobricic Simone Russo Luca Pozzoli Julian Wilson Elisabetta Vignati Increasing occurrence of heat waves in the terrestrial Arctic Environmental Research Letters heat wave arctic sea ice global warming |
| title | Increasing occurrence of heat waves in the terrestrial Arctic |
| title_full | Increasing occurrence of heat waves in the terrestrial Arctic |
| title_fullStr | Increasing occurrence of heat waves in the terrestrial Arctic |
| title_full_unstemmed | Increasing occurrence of heat waves in the terrestrial Arctic |
| title_short | Increasing occurrence of heat waves in the terrestrial Arctic |
| title_sort | increasing occurrence of heat waves in the terrestrial arctic |
| topic | heat wave arctic sea ice global warming |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6398 |
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