Tropical cyclone-blackout-heatwave compound hazard resilience in a changing climate

Kairui Feng; Min Ouyang; Ning Lin

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-32018-4

Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Tropical cyclone-blackout-heatwave compound hazard resilience in a changing climate

Kairui Feng,
Min Ouyang,
Ning Lin

Affiliations

Kairui Feng: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University
Min Ouyang: School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Ning Lin: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32018-4
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The study found that long-duration heatwaves are much more likely to follow power-damaging tropical cyclones in the future RCP8.5 climate, with the impact of longer-than-5-day tropical cyclone-blackout-heatwave compound hazard increasing by a factor of 23 over the 21st century.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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