Increasing occurrence of heat waves in the terrestrial Arctic
Heat waves in the Arctic may strongly impact environment and local communities. Recently several indices have been proposed for monitoring environmental changes in the Arctic, but heat waves have not been addressed. By applying a structured approach for evaluating occurrences of periods with excepti...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:828ad822c32747a58d780f61687cd9ef 2023-09-05T13:16:00+02:00 Increasing occurrence of heat waves in the terrestrial Arctic Srdjan Dobricic Simone Russo Luca Pozzoli Julian Wilson Elisabetta Vignati 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6398 https://doaj.org/article/828ad822c32747a58d780f61687cd9ef EN eng IOP Publishing https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6398 https://doaj.org/toc/1748-9326 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ab6398 1748-9326 https://doaj.org/article/828ad822c32747a58d780f61687cd9ef Environmental Research Letters, Vol 15, Iss 2, p 024022 (2020) heat wave arctic sea ice global warming Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering TD1-1066 Environmental sciences GE1-350 Science Q Physics QC1-999 article 2020 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6398 2023-08-13T00:37:08Z Heat waves in the Arctic may strongly impact environment and local communities. Recently several indices have been proposed for monitoring environmental changes in the Arctic, but heat waves have not been addressed. By applying a structured approach for evaluating occurrences of periods with exceptionally high temperatures, this study demonstrates that in the last decades there was an increase of heat wave occurrences over the terrestrial Arctic. The increase is mainly over the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and Greenland that are surrounded by ocean undergoing a sea-ice melting trend, while the Eurasian Arctic shows no significant change in heat wave occurrence. Since 2002 the probability of experiencing heat waves in the Arctic has been similar or even higher than in the middle and low latitudes and heat waves have already started to increasingly threaten local vegetation, ecology, human health and economy. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Archipelago Arctic Canadian Arctic Archipelago Global warming Greenland Human health Sea ice Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Canadian Arctic Archipelago Greenland Environmental Research Letters 15 2 024022 |
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Heat waves in the Arctic may strongly impact environment and local communities. Recently several indices have been proposed for monitoring environmental changes in the Arctic, but heat waves have not been addressed. By applying a structured approach for evaluating occurrences of periods with exceptionally high temperatures, this study demonstrates that in the last decades there was an increase of heat wave occurrences over the terrestrial Arctic. The increase is mainly over the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and Greenland that are surrounded by ocean undergoing a sea-ice melting trend, while the Eurasian Arctic shows no significant change in heat wave occurrence. Since 2002 the probability of experiencing heat waves in the Arctic has been similar or even higher than in the middle and low latitudes and heat waves have already started to increasingly threaten local vegetation, ecology, human health and economy. |
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Srdjan Dobricic Simone Russo Luca Pozzoli Julian Wilson Elisabetta Vignati |
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Increasing occurrence of heat waves in the terrestrial Arctic |
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Increasing occurrence of heat waves in the terrestrial Arctic |
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Increasing occurrence of heat waves in the terrestrial Arctic |
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