ERC Consolidator Grant · 2022
Hybrid dry–hot Extremes prediction and AdapTation
Half a million people die due to heat stress every year. These numbers keep rising as climate continues to change. Heatwaves are becoming more frequent and severe, and disproportionally synchronised with droughts. Droughts reduce the ability of the land surface to cool down via evaporation, further enhancing heatwave temperatures. Nonetheless, how these compound drought–heatwave events spatially propagate, and their future lethality, remains unclear. Counterintuitive findings now indicate that drought can even dampen heatwave deadliness by reducing air humidity. Consequently, our ability to forecast dry–hot events and their impacts on human health remains limited. Subseasonal timescales,…
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