Anthropogenic warming has substantially increased the likelihood of July 2017–like heat waves over central eastern China
<p>During July 2017, an unprecedentedly intense heat wave struck Central-Eastern China, resulting in drastically-increased human morbidity/mortality, steeply-reduced agriculture productivity, and serious shortage of electricity and water supply (China Climate Bulletin of 2017). Many meteorolog...
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| author | Chen, Y Chen, W Su, Q Luo, F Sparrow, S Tian, F Dong, B Tett, S Lott, F Wallom, D |
| author_facet | Chen, Y Chen, W Su, Q Luo, F Sparrow, S Tian, F Dong, B Tett, S Lott, F Wallom, D |
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| description | <p>During July 2017, an unprecedentedly intense heat wave struck Central-Eastern China, resulting in drastically-increased human morbidity/mortality, steeply-reduced agriculture productivity, and serious shortage of electricity and water supply (China Climate Bulletin of 2017). Many meteorological stations registered 15–25 hot days (daily maximum temperature over 35°C), and some even had their record-high July temperatures, such as a new record of 40.9°C amongst historical observations since 1873 in Xu-Jia-Hui station in Shanghai (China Climate Bulletin of 2017). The China Meteorological Administration issued 10 high-level warnings against hot weather during 21st–25th July. Such unprecedentedly frequent alarms within only 5 days attracted intense scrutiny from policy-makers, media, and the public on the relationship between this heat wave and global warming.</p> <br/> <p>Previous studies usually conducted attribution analyses on seasonal warmth in Central-Eastern China (e.g. the 2013 record-breaking summer, Sun et al. 2014), leaving attribution statements for short-term (synoptic) hot extremes sparsely reported. This study therefore attempts to answer whether and to what extent anthropogenic warming has increased the likelihood of 5-day heat waves as hot or hotter than the 21st–25th July 2017 case over Central-Eastern China.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:53224c67-3530-4fe0-86ed-c4ca94e9a3d72022-03-26T16:29:45ZAnthropogenic warming has substantially increased the likelihood of July 2017–like heat waves over central eastern ChinaJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:53224c67-3530-4fe0-86ed-c4ca94e9a3d7Symplectic Elements at OxfordAmerican Meteorological Society2019Chen, YChen, WSu, QLuo, FSparrow, STian, FDong, BTett, SLott, FWallom, D<p>During July 2017, an unprecedentedly intense heat wave struck Central-Eastern China, resulting in drastically-increased human morbidity/mortality, steeply-reduced agriculture productivity, and serious shortage of electricity and water supply (China Climate Bulletin of 2017). Many meteorological stations registered 15–25 hot days (daily maximum temperature over 35°C), and some even had their record-high July temperatures, such as a new record of 40.9°C amongst historical observations since 1873 in Xu-Jia-Hui station in Shanghai (China Climate Bulletin of 2017). The China Meteorological Administration issued 10 high-level warnings against hot weather during 21st–25th July. Such unprecedentedly frequent alarms within only 5 days attracted intense scrutiny from policy-makers, media, and the public on the relationship between this heat wave and global warming.</p> <br/> <p>Previous studies usually conducted attribution analyses on seasonal warmth in Central-Eastern China (e.g. the 2013 record-breaking summer, Sun et al. 2014), leaving attribution statements for short-term (synoptic) hot extremes sparsely reported. This study therefore attempts to answer whether and to what extent anthropogenic warming has increased the likelihood of 5-day heat waves as hot or hotter than the 21st–25th July 2017 case over Central-Eastern China.</p> |
| spellingShingle | Chen, Y Chen, W Su, Q Luo, F Sparrow, S Tian, F Dong, B Tett, S Lott, F Wallom, D Anthropogenic warming has substantially increased the likelihood of July 2017–like heat waves over central eastern China |
| title | Anthropogenic warming has substantially increased the likelihood of July 2017–like heat waves over central eastern China |
| title_full | Anthropogenic warming has substantially increased the likelihood of July 2017–like heat waves over central eastern China |
| title_fullStr | Anthropogenic warming has substantially increased the likelihood of July 2017–like heat waves over central eastern China |
| title_full_unstemmed | Anthropogenic warming has substantially increased the likelihood of July 2017–like heat waves over central eastern China |
| title_short | Anthropogenic warming has substantially increased the likelihood of July 2017–like heat waves over central eastern China |
| title_sort | anthropogenic warming has substantially increased the likelihood of july 2017 like heat waves over central eastern china |
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