Increase of extreme events in a warming world

By Stefan Rahmstorf, Dim Coumou. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011

1,207 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change

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In Atmospheric Science

1. J. Sillmann
2. Dim Coumou
3. Simone Russo
4. Igor Esau
5. M. Howden
6. P. Kokic
7. Steve Crimp
8. A. Robinson

In Economics and Econometrics

1. M. Howden
2. P. Kokic
3. Steve Crimp
4. Felix Creutzig
5. M. O’Connor
6. B. Gilbert
7. N. E. Zimmermann
8. D. Stone

In Global and Planetary Change

1. J. Sillmann
2. Dim Coumou
3. Simone Russo
4. M. Howden
5. P. Kokic
6. Steve Crimp
7. A. Robinson
8. S. Mukherjee

Citations in the corpus

• Historic and future increase in the global land area affected by monthly heat extremes (2013, background): “Though recent heat waves in the northern hemisphere extra-tropics have received much scientific and media attention (Jones et al 2008, Rahmstorf and Coumou 2011, WMO 2011, Duffy and Tebaldi 2012, Otto et al 2012, Petoukhov et al 2013), it is the tropics that have actually seen the strongest…”
• Increased temperature variation poses a greater risk to species than climate warming (2014, background): “droughts, heat-waves) [12–14,16,36], such changes will manifest in the higher statistical moments (e.”
• The impact of climate conditions on economic production. Evidence from a global panel of regions (2020, background): “Extreme weather events are expected to increase in frequency and intensity as global climate change accelerates (Rahmstorf and Coumou, 2011; IPCC-SREX, 2012).”
• Top ten European heatwaves since 1950 and their occurrence in the coming decades (2015, background): “…will see significantly more intense hot extremes (Clark et al 2006, Fischer et al 2013), with a probability of occurrence of extreme heatwaves increasing by a factor of 5 to 10 (Beniston et al 2007, Barriopedro et al 2011, Rahmstorf and Coumou 2011, Coumou and Robinson 2013, Christidis et al 2015).”
• Climate change and European forests: what do we know, what are the uncertainties, and what are the implications for forest management? (2014, background): “Exceptionally large forest fires during the last decade have been associated with extreme weather conditions that exceeded the normal range of climate variability as demonstrated e.g. for the 2010 fire season in Russia (Barriopedro et al., 2011; Rahmstorf and Coumou, 2011), but also the 2003 and 200”
• Teleconnected food supply shocks (2016, background): “But, global warming not only influences mean total yields; recent work also highlights that crop yields become more variable (Asseng et al 2011, Urban 2012, Porter et al 2014) as climatic extremes become more frequent (Rahmstorf and Coumou 2011).”
• Diurnal asymmetry to the observed global warming (2017, background): “Naturally, there has been an increase in the number of warm extremes and decrease in the cold extremes as the world warms (Rahmstorf and Coumou, 2011), but we would expect both the decrease in cold extremes and increase in warm extremes to be more pronounced in the Tmin than the Tmax.”
• Heat wave exposure in India in current, 1.5 °C, and 2.0 °C worlds (2017, background): “Many parts of the world have witnessed an increased number of heatwaves in recent years (Rahmstorf and Coumou 2011, Sun et al 2014, Christidis et al 2015), including major global urban areas, where most of the world’s human population now resides (Mishra et al 2015, Matthews et al 2017), and in…”