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Re: Extreme Heatwaves May Hit Europe In The Short Term

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benj <none@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/30/2015 02:42 PM, Sam Wormley wrote:
>> Extreme Heatwaves May Hit Europe In The Short Term
>>> http://www.reportingclimatescience.com/news-stories/article/extreme-heatwaves-may-hit-europe-in-the-short-term.html
>>>
>>
>>> Regional climate projections for the two coming decades (2021-2040)
>>> suggest enhanced probability of heatwaves anywhere in Europe, which
>>> would be comparable or greater than the Russian heatwave in 2010 -
>>> the worst since 1950 - according to a JRC-led article published today
>>> in Environmental Research Letters.
>>
>>
>>> Abstract
>>>
>>> The Russian heatwave in 2010 killed tens of thousands of people, and
>>> was by far the worst event in Europe since at least 1950, according
>>> to recent studies and a novel universal heatwave index capturing both
>>> the duration and magnitude of heatwaves. Here, by taking an improved
>>> version of this index, namely the heat wave magnitude index daily, we
>>> rank the top ten European heatwaves that occurred in the period
>>> 1950?2014, and show the spatial distribution of the magnitude of the
>>> most recent heatwave in summer 2015. We demonstrate that all these
>>> events had a strong impact reported in historical newspapers. We
>>> further reveal that the 1972 heatwave in Finland had a comparable
>>> spatial extent and magnitude as the European heatwave of 2003,
>>> considered the second strongest heatwave of the observational era. In
>>> the next two decades (2021?2040), regional climate projections
>>> suggest that Europe experiences an enhanced probability for heatwaves
>>> comparable to or greater than the magnitude, extent and duration of
>>> the Russian heatwave in 2010. We demonstrate that the probability of
>>> experiencing a major European heatwave in the coming decades is
>>> higher in RCP8.5 than RCP4.5 even though global mean temperature
>>> projections do not differ substantially. This calls for a proactive
>>> vulnerability assessment in Europe in support of formulating heatwave
>>> adaptation strategies to reduce the adverse impacts of heatwaves.
>>>
>>> Citation
>>>
>>> Top ten European heatwaves since 1950 and their occurrence in the
>>> coming decades by Simone Russo, Jana Sillmann and Erich M Fischer,
>>> published in Environmental Research Letters,
>>> doi:10.1088/1748-9326/10/12/124003
>>
>>
> And monkeys MAY fly out of Sam Wormley's ass next year!

I think they already are. 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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Extreme Heatwaves May Hit Europe In The Short Term Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-30 13:42 -0600
  Re: Extreme Heatwaves May Hit Europe In The Short Term benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-11-30 15:26 -0500
    Re: Extreme Heatwaves May Hit Europe In The Short Term jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-30 20:49 +0000
  Re: Extreme Heatwaves May Hit Europe In The Short Term "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-11-30 14:34 -0800
    Re: Extreme Heatwaves May Hit Europe In The Short Term Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2015-12-01 15:11 -0800
      Re: Extreme Heatwaves May Hit Europe In The Short Term "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 16:22 -0800
      Re: Extreme Heatwaves May Hit Europe In The Short Term benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 23:11 -0500
  Re: Extreme Heatwaves May Hit Europe In The Short Term Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2015-11-30 17:38 -0500
  Re: Extreme Heatwaves May Hit Europe In The Short Term gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> - 2015-12-01 19:46 -0600

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