The 2021 European Heat Wave in the Context of Past Major Heat Waves
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/86652079:_____/22:00568162 RIV/60460709:41330/22:92193
Result on the web
<a href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022EA002567" target="_blank" >https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022EA002567</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2022EA002567" target="_blank" >10.1029/2022EA002567</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The 2021 European Heat Wave in the Context of Past Major Heat Waves
Original language description
The past two decades in Europe have been characterized by numerous major heat waves, with record-breaking temperatures reported also during the summer of 2021. While most previous studies on heat waves were based on land-only datasets (station or gridded), we use the ERA5 reanalysis to capture also heat wave characteristics over water bodies. An up-to-date list of major European heat waves since 1950 is presented, and the 2021 heat wave is evaluated in this long-term context. This event was record-breaking in length at the European scale, and in many other aspects (spatial extent, magnitude) comparable to the 2003 and 2010 major heat waves. The summer of 2021 was unprecedented over Europe according to the number of hot days (63) and the earliest start of a major heat wave (June 19), while the 2019 heat wave with record-breaking temperatures across Western Europe stands out as to its intensity. Another recent major heat wave in 2018 ranked fourth in terms of magnitude. The spatial pattern in occurrence of the most severe heat wave since 1950 in individual parts of Europe is dominated by the 2003 (Western Europe), 2010 (Eastern Europe), 2018 (Scandinavia), and 2021 (Mediterranean) major heat waves. Overall, 83% of the domain area experienced the most severe heat wave in the past two decades (2002–2021), which demonstrates a rapidly changing summer climate in Europe.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10509 - Meteorology and atmospheric sciences
Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Earth and Space Science
ISSN
2333-5084
e-ISSN
2333-5084
Volume of the periodical
9
Issue of the periodical within the volume
11
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
e2022EA002567
UT code for WoS article
000909721900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85142885558