Emerging off-season heat waves in Europe
Public support
Provider
Czech Science Foundation
Programme
Standard projects
Call for proposals
SGA0202600001
Main participants
Ústav fyziky atmosféry AV ČR, v. v. i.
Contest type
VS - Public tender
Contract ID
26-22280S
Alternative language
Project name in Czech
Emerging off-season heat waves in Europe
Annotation in Czech
The project is motivated by recent occurrences of heat waves far outside their usual season, such as the 2024 early April heat wave in Central Europe. We propose to explore a novel concept of off-season heat waves defined based on two principal criteria: i) temperatures exceed thresholds for a summertime heat wave for several consecutive days and ii) the event falls outside the usual heat wave season. By analysing observed datasets and the ERA5 reanalysis, we will advance understanding of spatiotemporal characteristics of off-season heat waves across Europe, including their vertical structures and mechanisms of their onset, persistence, and termination. In the next step, we will evaluate off-season heat waves in regional climate model simulations to identify models’ abilities to reproduce such events. Because climate change adaptation strategies lack information on future off-season heat waves, we will subsequently combine probabilistic and event-based storylines approaches to deliver comprehensible scenarios of these events for near future and the end of the 21st century.
Scientific branches
R&D category
ZV - Basic research
OECD FORD - main branch
10510 - Climatic research
OECD FORD - secondary branch
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OECD FORD - another secondary branch
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CEP - equivalent branches <br>(according to the <a href="http://www.vyzkum.cz/storage/att/E6EF7938F0E854BAE520AC119FB22E8D/Prevodnik_oboru_Frascati.pdf">converter</a>)
DG - Atmospheric sciences, meteorology
Solution timeline
Realization period - beginning
Jan 1, 2026
Realization period - end
Dec 31, 2028
Project status
Z - Beginning multi-year project
Latest support payment
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Data delivery to CEP
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data delivery code
CEP26-GA0-GA-R
Data delivery date
May 7, 2026
Finance
Total approved costs
10,276 thou. CZK
Public financial support
10,276 thou. CZK
Other public sources
0 thou. CZK
Non public and foreign sources
0 thou. CZK