Top ten European heatwaves since 1950 and their occurrence in the coming decades
The Russian heatwave in 2010 killed tens of thousands of people, and was by far the worst event in Europe since at least 1950, according to recent studies and a novel universal heatwave index capturing both the duration and magnitude of heatwaves. Here, by taking an improved version of this index, n...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2015-01-01
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Series: | Environmental Research Letters |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/12/124003 |