Extreme weather events in early summer 2018 connected by a recurrent hemispheric wave-7 pattern

The summer of 2018 witnessed a number of extreme weather events such as heatwaves in North America, Western Europe and the Caspian Sea region, and rainfall extremes in South-East Europe and Japan that occurred near-simultaneously. Here we show that some of these extremes were connected by an amplifi...

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Main Authors: Kai Kornhuber, Scott Osprey, Dim Coumou, Stefan Petri, Vladimir Petoukhov, Stefan Rahmstorf, Lesley Gray
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2019-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab13bf