Growing prevalence of heat over cold extremes with overall milder extremes and multiple successive events

Yuan Zhang; Qiangzi Li; Yong Ge; Xin Du; Hongyan Wang

doi:10.1038/s43247-022-00404-x

Communications Earth & Environment (Apr 2022)

Growing prevalence of heat over cold extremes with overall milder extremes and multiple successive events

Yuan Zhang,
Qiangzi Li,
Yong Ge,
Xin Du,
Hongyan Wang

Affiliations

Yuan Zhang: National Engineering Laboratory for Satellite Remote Sensing Applications, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Qiangzi Li: National Engineering Laboratory for Satellite Remote Sensing Applications, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yong Ge: State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information Systems, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xin Du: National Engineering Laboratory for Satellite Remote Sensing Applications, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hongyan Wang: National Engineering Laboratory for Satellite Remote Sensing Applications, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00404-x
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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On global average, the magnitude of hot temperature extremes increased less fast than the magnitude of cold extremes decreased, with much regional variability and a hotspot in the Middle East and North Africa, suggests a global analysis of extremes between 1980 and 2018.

Published in Communications Earth & Environment

ISSN: 2662-4435 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science: Geology; Geography. Anthropology. Recreation: Environmental sciences
Website: https://www.nature.com/commsenv/

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