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Climate Extremes

Climate Extremes is a climatological phenomenon characterized by the occurrence of weather events that deviate significantly from the average or expected range in a given region, such as extreme temperatures, precipitation, droughts, or storms, thereby posing substantial risks to natural and human systems.

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Global observed changes in daily climate extremes of temperature and precipitation

Lisa V. Alexander, Xiaodan Zhang, T. C. Peterson et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2006 · 4.5K citations · Full text

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More Intense, More Frequent, and Longer Lasting Heat Waves in the 21st Century

Gerald A. Meehl, Claudia Tebaldi · Science · 2004 · 4.3K citations

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Influence of extreme weather disasters on global crop production

Corey Lesk, Pedram Rowhani, Navin Ramankutty · Nature · 2016 · 3.7K citations · Full text

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The role of increasing temperature variability in European summer heatwaves

Christoph Schär, Pier Luigi Vidale, Daniel Lüthi et al. · Nature · 2004 · 2.8K citations

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A decade of weather extremes

Dim Coumou, Stefan Rahmstorf · Nature Climate Change · 2012 · 2.3K citations

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Authors

16.7K

  1. LV
    Lisa V. Alexander

    UNSW Sydney, Australia

    76 publications · 25.8K citations

    52

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  2. XZ
    Xuebin Zhang

    Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada

    65 publications · 21K citations

    48

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  3. MG
    Markus G. Donat

    UNSW Sydney, Australia

    54 publications · 11K citations

    41

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  4. EF
    Erich Fischer

    ETH Zurich, Switzerland

    56 publications · 12.9K citations

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  5. SI
    Sonia I. Seneviratne

    ETH Zurich, Switzerland

    50 publications · 11.6K citations

    41

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Institutions

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  1. ETH Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    99 h-index

    402 publications

    91K citations

  2. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

    Boulder, United States

    86 h-index

    289 publications

    57.9K citations

  3. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    85 h-index

    1.3K publications

    76.9K citations

  4. Met Office

    Exeter, United Kingdom

    80 h-index

    448 publications

    64.5K citations

  5. Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

    De Bilt, The Netherlands

    80 h-index

    332 publications

    57.4K citations

  6. UNSW Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    78 h-index

    371 publications

    76.3K citations

  7. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    78 h-index

    536 publications

    58.2K citations

  8. ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science

    Sydney, Australia

    72 h-index

    295 publications

    62.2K citations

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  1. Journal of Climate

    350 publications · 43.9K citations

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  2. Geophysical Research Letters

    337 publications · 36K citations

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  3. International Journal of Climatology

    503 publications · 39.7K citations

    100

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  4. Climatic Change

    184 publications · 24.2K citations

    79

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  5. Environmental Research Letters

    ERL · 213 publications · 20.3K citations

    72

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