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    Amplified Rossby waves enhance risk of concurrent heatwaves in major breadbasket regions

    In an interconnected world, simultaneous extreme weather events in distant regions could potentially impose high-end risks for societies1,2. In the mid-latitudes, circumglobal Rossby waves are associated with a s...

    Kai Kornhuber, Dim Coumou, Elisabeth Vogel, Corey Lesk… in Nature Climate Change (2020)

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    Summer weather becomes more persistent in a 2 °C world

    Heat and rainfall extremes have intensified over the past few decades and this trend is projected to continue with future global warming1–3. A long persistence of extreme events often leads to societal impacts wi...

    Peter Pfleiderer, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Kai Kornhuber… in Nature Climate Change (2019)

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    Climate change impacts in Latin America and the Caribbean and their implications for development

    This paper synthesizes what is known about the physical and biophysical impacts of climate change and their consequences for societies and development under different levels of global warming in Latin America ...

    Christopher P.O. Reyer, Sophie Adams, Torsten Albrecht… in Regional Environmental Change (2017)

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    Climate change impacts in Sub-Saharan Africa: from physical changes to their social repercussions

    The repercussions of climate change will be felt in various ways throughout both natural and human systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. Climate change projections for this region point to a warming trend, particula...

    Olivia Serdeczny, Sophie Adams, Florent Baarsch… in Regional Environmental Change (2017)

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    Climate change impacts in Central Asia and their implications for development

    This paper synthesizes what is known about the physical and biophysical impacts of climate change and their consequences for societies and development under different levels of global warming in Central Asia. ...

    Christopher P.O Reyer, Ilona M. Otto, Sophie Adams… in Regional Environmental Change (2017)

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    Climatic risks and impacts in South Asia: extremes of water scarcity and excess

    This paper reviews the current knowledge of climatic risks and impacts in South Asia associated with anthropogenic warming levels of 1.5–4 °C above pre-industrial values in the twenty-first century. It is bas...

    Kira Vinke, Maria A. Martin, Sophie Adams, Florent Baarsch… in Regional Environmental Change (2017)

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    Climate change impacts in the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) region and their implications for vulnerable population groups

    The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region emerges as one of the hot spots for worsening extreme heat, drought and aridity conditions under climate change. A synthesis of peer-reviewed literature from 2010...

    Katharina Waha, Linda Krummenauer, Sophie Adams… in Regional Environmental Change (2017)

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    Socio-economic data for global environmental change research

    Subnational socio-economic datasets are required if we are to assess the impacts of global environmental changes and to improve adaptation responses. Institutional and community efforts should concentrate on s...

    Ilona M. Otto, Anne Biewald, Dim Coumou, Georg Feulner… in Nature Climate Change (2015)

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    A decade of weather extremes

    The ostensibly large number of recent extreme weather events has triggered intensive discussions, both in- and outside the scientific community, on whether they are related to global warming. Here, we review t...

    Dim Coumou, Stefan Rahmstorf in Nature Climate Change (2012)