Rapid increase in the risk of extreme summer heat in Eastern China

• Published in: Nature climate change Vol. 4; no. 12; pp. 1082 - 1085
• Main Authors: Sun, Ying, Zhang, Xuebin, Zwiers, Francis W., Song, Lianchun, Wan, Hui, Hu, Ting, Yin, Hong, Ren, Guoyu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.12.2014; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 704/106/694/2739; 704/106/694/674; Anthropogenic factors; Climate adaptation; Climate Change; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Climatology. Bioclimatology. Climate change; Drought; Earth, ocean, space; Economics; Environment; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice; Exact sciences and technology; External geophysics; Extreme heat; Heat waves; letter; Meteorology; Eastern China; Far East; Asia; China; China, People's Rep; Multimodel; Coupled model; Atmospheric condition; Dog days; General circulation models; Extreme event; climate warming; adaptation; Summer; Climate models; digital simulation; Climate prediction; Atmospheric temperature; extreme value; global change; Risk assessment; Observation data; Risk management; climate change; Anthropogenic factor

Mean summer temperature in Eastern China has increased by 0.82 °C since the 1950s and five of the hottest summers have occurred since 2000. This study estimates anthropogenic influence to have caused a greater than 60-fold increase in the likelihood of extreme summer heat and projects that hot summe...