{"title":"Corrigendum to ‘Impact of urbanization on regional extreme precipitation trends observed at China national station network’ [Weather and Climate Extremes 48 (2025) 100760]","authors":"Suonam Kealdrup Tysa, Guoyu Ren, Panfeng Zhang, Siqi Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.wace.2025.100779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2025.100779","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48630,"journal":{"name":"Weather and Climate Extremes","volume":"153 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144305061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding drought onset: What makes flash droughts different from conventional droughts?","authors":"Pallavi Goswami , Ailie J.E. Gallant","doi":"10.1016/j.wace.2025.100782","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wace.2025.100782","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the timescales of drought onset to understand the differences between rapid onset droughts, called flash droughts, and the more conventional slow-onset droughts. Using a soil moisture-based drought identification approach, we show that soil moisture across most of Australia can transition from near-normal to drought conditions within one month’s time. The median duration for non-rapid drought onset, here called a conventional drought, is 30 days, while the rapid onset drought, here called a flash drought, takes around 15 days, indicating that the difference in onset timescales of the two drought types is relatively small. Further, our findings reveal that changes to precipitation and evaporative conditions during a flash drought onset are not very different from those that cause a conventional drought onset. However, flash drought development is associated with larger magnitude of anomalies of those variables leading to drought conditions. These larger anomalies during flash droughts reduce soil moisture rapidly, with a potential to cause damage to vegetation health without sufficient early warning. Although there is a diversity in the mechanisms causing flash droughts, we show here that the majority of the flash droughts are primarily related to the joint influence of abnormally low precipitation and heightened incoming solar radiation (low cloud cover) and large vapour pressure deficits (low relative humidity). The results emphasise the need to update existing drought monitoring systems to account for more realistic timescales of drought onsets for better early warning and preparedness.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48630,"journal":{"name":"Weather and Climate Extremes","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100782"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144296875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Geert Lenderink , Hylke de Vries , Erik van Meijgaard , Wim de Rooy , Lambertus van Ulft , Vikki Thompson , Xiaobin Qiu , Hayley J. Fowler
{"title":"A pseudo global warming based system to study how climate change affects high impact rainfall events","authors":"Geert Lenderink , Hylke de Vries , Erik van Meijgaard , Wim de Rooy , Lambertus van Ulft , Vikki Thompson , Xiaobin Qiu , Hayley J. Fowler","doi":"10.1016/j.wace.2025.100781","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wace.2025.100781","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Assessing the influence of climate change on extreme (convective) rainfall is challenging. In particular with global climate models, it is virtually impossible to combine high resolution modelling to represent the physical processes adequately together with conducting long simulations to achieve statistical robustness. To complement global modelling efforts, we here present an event oriented system based on pseudo global warming (PGW). The system consists of continuous short-term forecast cycles (3 days long starting each day at midnight) running a small set of 12 km resolution simulations for the present-day climate, a cooler past climate, and three warmer climates. For extreme events these runs are further downscaled to convection permitting resolutions. This allows us to study the spatiotemporal characteristics of convective rainfall and associated phenomena, like wind gusts, hail, and lightning within a climate change context. At the same time, the system has sufficient signal-to-noise to study climate change effects in rare extreme events. We illustrate the application the system with three recent extreme rainfall events (storm Babet in the UK, October 2023; the Italy spring 2023 floods; and the Germany Bavaria, 2024 floods) and discuss strengths and limitations of the method. One additional case with extreme convective wind gusts shows the potential further application of the system. All three rainfall events reveal climate change responses well beyond the commonly expected Clausius-Clapeyron rate, and two cases (in Italy and Germany) reveal a concentration of rainfall in more confined areas, disproportionally enhancing the potential for flash floods in a warming climate.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48630,"journal":{"name":"Weather and Climate Extremes","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100781"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144231556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Convection-permitting WRF simulation of extreme winds in Canada: Present and future scenarios","authors":"Xiao Ma, Yanping Li, Fei Huo, Zhenhua Li","doi":"10.1016/j.wace.2025.100777","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wace.2025.100777","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates extreme wind events across southern Canada using 4-km convection-permitting WRF simulations under present (CTRL) and future (PGW) climate scenarios. The high resolution allows explicit representation of convective processes and complex terrain, improving local-scale wind prediction. We analyze three distinct regions—the central Prairies, Rocky Mountains, and southern Ontario—and find strong spatial and seasonal contrasts. Under future conditions, summer wind extremes intensify notably in the Prairies and southern Ontario, while winter winds decrease in the Prairies but increase in Ontario, Quebec, and mountainous areas. A conditional probability analysis based on Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE) reveals that the likelihood of destructive winds (>20 m/s) rises significantly in convectively unstable environments. In southern Ontario, the probability under strong instability (CAPE >2500 J/kg) increases from nearly zero to 0.4. We also apply the Peaks-over-Threshold (POT) method to estimate 50-year return period wind speeds, which show substantial future increases, up to 6 m/s in some areas during summer. These changes indicate a rising threat from convectively driven wind extremes. This study highlights the value of convection-permitting models in resolving local wind features and emphasizes the need for region-specific adaptation strategies. The findings critically impact wind hazard assessment, infrastructure design, and climate resilience planning across southern Canada.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48630,"journal":{"name":"Weather and Climate Extremes","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100777"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144263292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Peter B. Gibson , Ashley M. Broadbent , Stephen J. Stuart , Hamish Lewis , Isaac Campbell , Neelesh Rampal , Luke J. Harrington , Jonny Williams
{"title":"Downscaled CMIP6 future climate projections for New Zealand: climatology and extremes","authors":"Peter B. Gibson , Ashley M. Broadbent , Stephen J. Stuart , Hamish Lewis , Isaac Campbell , Neelesh Rampal , Luke J. Harrington , Jonny Williams","doi":"10.1016/j.wace.2025.100784","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wace.2025.100784","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Downscaled climate projections provide regionally relevant information for climate adaptation and planning purposes. Updated climate projections (∼12-km) are presented here for the New Zealand region, downscaling 6 global climate models (GCMs) from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) under a high emissions scenario (SSP3-7.0). Three regional climate models (RCMs) are used to explore differences when downscaling select GCMs. For end of century projections (relative to 1986–2005), the national multi-model annual mean warming is 3.1°C (model range 2.0–3.8°C) across downscaled simulations. Downscaling generally enhances warming over New Zealand relative to the GCMs, with the largest increases across high-elevation regions. There can be important differences in the projections across RCMs, including at national scales for temperature and across local-to-regional scales for precipitation. Averaged across models, annual extreme heatwaves become 3–5°C hotter for most regions. More frequent, intense, and longer duration meteorological drought is projected across northern and eastern regions of both islands. In terms of model uncertainty based on sign agreement, while summer mean precipitation projections carry the largest uncertainty, projections of summer meteorological drought and precipitation extremes can be made with greater confidence. These results provide a foundation for further targeted regional climate change impact and adaptation studies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48630,"journal":{"name":"Weather and Climate Extremes","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100784"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144579821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Influence of the East Asia‒Pacific and Eurasian teleconnection on the summer marine heatwaves in the Japan/East Sea","authors":"Kaidi Huang , Gang Zeng , Aminu Dalhatu Datti , Changming Dong","doi":"10.1016/j.wace.2025.100783","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wace.2025.100783","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are an escalating global issue, posing significant threats to marine ecosystems and the fisheries economy worldwide, including in the Japan/East Sea (JES). However, the influence of atmospheric circulation modes on the occurrence of MHWs in this relatively enclosed sea area remains unclear. To address this issue, this study utilizes 1982–2023 high-resolution daily satellite sea surface temperature (SST) data and atmospheric reanalysis products to investigate the relationship between atmospheric circulation modes and MHWs in the JES. The results show that during 1982–2023, the JES experienced severe summer MHWs, primarily driven by intense shortwave radiation linked to atmospheric activities. The East Asia-Pacific (EAP) pattern was found to influence the MHWs in the JES. Notably, we identified an interdecadal change in the relationship between MHWs and EAP patterns around 2001. Before 2001, there was a strong correlation (r = 0.68, <em>p</em> < 0.01) between MHWs in the JES and the EAP, but this relationship weakened significantly in the following years. During the 1982–2000 period, MHWs in the JES were primarily influenced by tropical convection over the South China Sea and the Philippine region, which triggered poleward Rossby wave propagation. Furthermore, since 2001, MHWs have shown a strong correlation with the summer Eurasian (EU) teleconnection, a zonal wave train situated over Eurasia. The correlation between EU and MHWs has reached 0.6 (<em>p</em> < 0.01) during the period from 2001 to 2023, in contrast to a weak negative correlation observed in the preceding EAP dominated period. This EU type mode is linked to warm SST anomalies in the North Atlantic and cold SST anomalies in the north of Western Europe from April to August. The Linear Baroclinic Model (LBM) and NCAR CAM5.3 can effectively validate the conclusions of the observations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48630,"journal":{"name":"Weather and Climate Extremes","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100783"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144195071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High-latitude lake influence on highly concentrated precipitation from cold-season storms in western Canada","authors":"Fei Huo, Yanping Li, Zhenhua Li","doi":"10.1016/j.wace.2025.100778","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wace.2025.100778","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cold-season (October–March) storms, particularly severe snowstorms, are responsible for significant economic losses and have crucial impacts on freshwater availability and ecosystems in high-latitude North America. These snowstorms also contribute to destructive floods during rapid snowmelt. Thus, ecosystems and water infrastructure in Canada are highly sensitive to changes in cold-season storms under global warming. This study employs an object-based approach, specifically utilizing a storm-tracking algorithm, to investigate how cold-season storm precipitation in western Canada responds to climate change under a worst-case warming scenario. In the entire study area, peak daily precipitation greater than 50 mm day<sup>−1</sup> within storms significantly increases in both warm and cold seasons. The most extreme storms with highly concentrated precipitation (that is, storms with the precipitation intensity 5 times greater at the storm center compared to the area-averaged intensity), are expected to become more frequent in the future, particularly in the coastal regions and inland lake regions. More importantly, by analyzing the top 20 storms with the highest peak daily precipitation, we found that in the future, lakes will contribute more moisture to the atmosphere through increased evaporation, thereby intensifying the moisture supply and enhancing storm precipitation. Additionally, our findings indicate that future cold-season storms with highly concentrated precipitation may not increase evenly across each month. Warmer lakes in autumn, due to their high thermal inertia, will continue to provide significant local moisture to the atmosphere, which is crucial for the formation of highly concentrated precipitation. These findings suggest significant implications for understanding and predicting the impacts of climate change on storm dynamics and precipitation patterns over inland lakes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48630,"journal":{"name":"Weather and Climate Extremes","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100778"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144139382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiaolu Zhang , Botao Zhou , Xiaoxin Wang , Wenxin Xie , Huixin Li
{"title":"Anthropogenic influence has intensified the severity of summer compound hot and drought events over xinjiang, China","authors":"Xiaolu Zhang , Botao Zhou , Xiaoxin Wang , Wenxin Xie , Huixin Li","doi":"10.1016/j.wace.2025.100774","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wace.2025.100774","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Compared with individual hot or drought extremes, compound hot and drought events (CHDEs) usually cause more disastrous socio-economic damage. Thus, understanding the change of CHDEs in the context of global warming is crucial for effective adaptation and mitigation strategies. This article, based on the CN05.1 gridded dataset and 33 Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) model simulations, examines the change in summer (June–July–August) CHDEs over Xinjiang, China from 1961 to 2020 and assesses the contribution of human influence using the optimal fingerprint method. The observational results show a significant upward trend in the severity of CHDEs over Xinjiang, among which the change in moderate CHDEs shows a dominant contribution. The CMIP6 multi-model ensemble mean simulation with all forcing generally matches the observation in the change of CHDEs over Xinjiang. Moreover, anthropogenic and natural forcings can be detected and separated from each other, with human activities contributing most to the CHDE change. Furthermore, the three-signal analysis of model responses to greenhouse gas, anthropogenic aerosol, and natural forcings indicates that the greenhouse gas forcing is primary to the increased severity of CHDEs in Xinjiang, while the influence of anthropogenic aerosol forcing cannot be detected.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48630,"journal":{"name":"Weather and Climate Extremes","volume":"48 ","pages":"Article 100774"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144069351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jithendra Raju Nadimpalli , Sivareddy Sanikommu , Aneesh C. Subramanian , Donata Giglio , Ibrahim Hoteit
{"title":"Subsurface marine heat waves and coral bleaching in the southern red sea linked to remote forcing","authors":"Jithendra Raju Nadimpalli , Sivareddy Sanikommu , Aneesh C. Subramanian , Donata Giglio , Ibrahim Hoteit","doi":"10.1016/j.wace.2025.100771","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wace.2025.100771","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Research on marine heat waves (MHWs) in the Red Sea has focused on the surface signatures of these extreme warm events, such as the sea surface temperature (SST). This focus may potentially neglect the detrimental effects of subsurface MHWs. The unprecedented coral bleaching event observed in the southern Red Sea in 2015, despite less intense SSTs than in the MHW in 2002, highlights this oversight. A high-resolution regional reanalysis of the Red Sea reveals that 2015 and 2002 were characterized by subsurface heat content anomalies of opposite signs at depths up to 100 m, with positive anomalies in 2015 and negative anomalies in 2002. A heat budget analysis suggests that the primary heat source is advection from the southern boundary connecting with the Gulf of Aden (GoA). The advection of negative temperature anomalies from the GoA contributed to decreased subsurface heat in 2002, and the advection of positive temperature anomalies from the GoA contributed to increased subsurface heat in 2015. The total increase in the subsurface heat observed in 2015 is linked to the reduction in Red Sea surface water (RSSW) and GoA intermediate water (GAIW). The higher sea surface height (SSH) and deeper 25<span><math><mi>σ</mi></math></span> isopycnal in GoA during 2015 resulted in horizontal pressure differences between the southern Red Sea and GoA, corresponding to the reduced flow of RSSW and GAIW that year. The primary factor contributing to the elevated SSH and deeper 25<span><math><mi>σ</mi></math></span> isopycnal is the presence of an anticyclonic eddy (Somali current ring) along the western shores of the GoA. The probable cause for the stronger anticyclonic eddy in 2015 compared to 2002 is the decreased intensity of the westward-propagating upwelling Rossby waves that originated from as far away as the Arabian Sea and the western coasts of India.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48630,"journal":{"name":"Weather and Climate Extremes","volume":"48 ","pages":"Article 100771"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143934994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Woon Mi Kim , Isla R. Simpson , Laurent Terray , Soledad Collazo
{"title":"The Unprecedented Late-Summer 2023 Heatwave in Southeastern South America: Attribution and future projection of similar events","authors":"Woon Mi Kim , Isla R. Simpson , Laurent Terray , Soledad Collazo","doi":"10.1016/j.wace.2025.100772","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wace.2025.100772","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In March 2023, southeastern South America (SESA) experienced a severe heatwave with its maximum intensity exceeding four standard deviations from the climatological mean. The timing of the occurrence was also unusual, as it occurred in the late summer. This study examines the contributing factors to the March 2023 SESA heatwave using a dynamical adjustment approach based on constructed atmospheric circulation analogs from the ERA5 reanalysis. Additionally, we assess changes in March heatwaves in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6 (CMIP6) Shared Socioeconomic Pathways 3-7.0 climate simulations using the same method.</div><div>The dynamical adjustment indicates that the largest contributors to the heatwave are circulation anomalies (on average 33%, 2.72<span><math><mrow><mo>°</mo><mi>C</mi></mrow></math></span>) and thermodynamic effect (58%, 4.75<span><math><mrow><mo>°</mo><mi>C</mi></mrow></math></span>), primarily linked to soil-temperature feedback. This result supports that extremely dry soil from the ongoing multi-year drought played a role in amplifying the heatwave intensity. The persistence of the circulation anomalies is also noticeable during the period. The contribution of the long-term temperature trend is 9% (0.78<span><math><mrow><mo>°</mo><mi>C</mi></mrow></math></span>).</div><div>In CMIP6 future simulations, the number of March heatwaves increases, but the relative frequency of March-2023-like dry-hot heatwaves decreases, largely due to projected increases in soil moisture. The contributions of the temperature trends and circulation anomalies are larger, while the thermodynamic effects related to soil-temperature feedback are reduced. The finding suggests that future March heatwaves are driven by increases in temperatures with reduced roles of soil moisture. However, uncertainty exists in future soil moisture projections, indicating the need for more understanding of changes in heatwaves in the region.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48630,"journal":{"name":"Weather and Climate Extremes","volume":"48 ","pages":"Article 100772"},"PeriodicalIF":6.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143941953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}