Heat Waves in Europe
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Meteorology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (27 January 2022) | Viewed by 2523
Special Issue Editors
Interests: heatwaves; biometeorology; extreme weather and climate events; climatology
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Interests: climate phenomena and their role in the climate system; regional climate modeling; regional climate change; arctic teleconnections with lower latitutes; arctic climate change and variability
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Interests: synoptic climatology; extreme weather events; atmosphere circulation; climate spatial analyses; climate change in recent centuries
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Heatwaves are going to be longer and more severe due to contemporary climate change. Numerous studies address this issue, providing analyses of enhancing factors, case studies of past events, influence of atmospheric circulation, various biometeorological indices, future projections, and consequences of those extreme events, including elevated mortality. The problem is the method of defining heatwaves, which varies among researchers. Should the definition be based on maximum, minimum, or mean daily temperature? Are percentiles better than a fixed threshold approach? If we decide on percentiles, should we take the 95th or the 90th percentile? Is the base period a year or just the summer months? From which years? 1961–1990, 1971–2000, 1981–2010, or most recent one, 1991–2020?
Let us all make analysis based on the same definition. In this issue, we invite authors from different European countries to send manuscripts analyzing heatwaves in your country with one unified method, which allows us to compare results. Here, we define heatwaves based on the most common approach, which is:
- Maximum daily temperature;
- 95th percentile from the summer months (JJA) from the 1981–2010 base period;
- At least 3 consecutive days.
We accept manuscripts focusing on various aspects of heatwaves; we only require the usage of the above methodology as one of the possible approaches. If you are not able to provide such research, please send this invitation to other researchers who might be interested in providing such studies.
Dr. Agnieszka Krzyżewska
Prof. Dr. Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen
Prof. Dr. Zbigniew Ustrnul
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- heat waves
- heatwaves
- extreme events
- Europe
- heatwave definitions
- biometeorology
