Heat wave trends in Southeast Asia during 1979–2018: The impact of humidity

• Published in: The Science of the total environment Vol. 721; p. 137664
• Main Author: Li, Xian-Xiang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 15.06.2020
• Subjects: climate change; Climate extreme; El Nino; ERA5; heat; Heat stress; humidity; Indian Ocean; Indochina; night temperature; Reanalysis; South East Asia; tropics; Wet-bulb temperature; South East Asia; Indian Ocean; Indochina; ERA5; Reanalysis; Heat stress; Wet-bulb temperature; Climate extreme

In tropics, especially Southeast Asia (SEA), heat wave (HW) research is seriously scarce although several global studies have projected this region to be greatly susceptible to increasing HW events under climate change scenarios. Using the recently released ERA5 reanalysis data, we find that in most...