Climate change increased extreme monsoon rainfall, flooding highly vulnerable communities in Pakistan

FEL Otto, M Zachariah, F Saeed, A Siddiqi… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
As a direct consequence of extreme monsoon rainfall throughout the summer 2022 season
Pakistan experienced the worst flooding in its history. We employ a probabilistic event …

A dynamic elastoplastic model of concrete based on a modeling method with environmental factors as constitutive variables

D Lu, F Meng, X Zhou, Y Zhuo, Z Gao… - Journal of Engineering …, 2023 - ascelibrary.org
This paper develops a modeling method with an incremental stress–strain–environment
constitutive model to predict the change in the plastic mechanical behavior of concrete …

The footprint of human-induced climate change on heat-related deaths in the summer of 2022 in Switzerland

AM Vicedo-Cabrera, E De Schrijver… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Human-induced climate change is leading to an increase in the intensity and frequency of
extreme weather events, which are severely affecting the health of the population. The …

The social costs of tropical cyclones

H Krichene, T Vogt, F Piontek, T Geiger… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Tropical cyclones (TCs) can adversely affect economic development for more than a
decade. Yet, these long-term effects are not accounted for in current estimates of the social …

Heating up: climate change and the threat to human health

B Byg, AD Shah - Current Opinion in Nephrology and …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Urgent action is required to curb emissions, enact adaptation strategies, and promote
climate justice. The healthcare sector must reduce its ecological footprint and prepare …

Global tropical cyclone precipitation scaling with sea surface temperature

AM Stansfield, KA Reed - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding the relationship between tropical cyclone (TC) precipitation and sea surface
temperature (SST) is essential for both TC hazard forecasting and projecting how these …

Climate change amplified the 2009 extreme landslide event in Austria

AN Mishra, D Maraun, R Knevels, H Truhetz… - Climatic change, 2023 - Springer
Landslides are an important natural hazard in mountainous regions. Given the triggering
and preconditioning by meteorological conditions, it is known that landslide risk may change …

Future of land surface water availability over the Mediterranean basin and North Africa: Analysis and synthesis from the CMIP6 exercise

K Arjdal, F Driouech, E Vignon, F Chéruy… - Atmospheric Science …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Mediterranean basin and Northern Africa are projected to be among the most
vulnerable areas to climate change. This research documents, analyzes, and synthesizes …

Elevated atmospheric CO2 drove an increase in tropical cyclone intensity during the early Toarcian hyperthermal

Q Yan, X Li, DB Kemp, J Guo… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The occurrence of sedimentary storm deposits around the Tethys Ocean during the early
Toarcian hyperthermal (~ 183 Ma) suggests that intensified tropical cyclone (TC) activity …

Maximal reachable temperatures for Western Europe in current climate

R Noyelle, Y Zhang, P Yiou… - Environmental Research …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Human bodies, ecosystems and infrastructures display a non-linear sensibility to extreme
temperatures occurring during heatwave events. Preparing for such events entails to know …