Weather and Climate Extremes

Papers
(The median citation count of Weather and Climate Extremes is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Teleconnections link to summer heat extremes in the south-central U.S.: Insights from CMIP5 and CMIP6 simulations95
Interannual variability of moisture sources and isotopic composition of Meiyu-Baiu rainfall in southwestern Japan: Importance of Asian monsoon moisture for extreme rainfall events81
Projected increase in windstorm severity and contribution from sting jets over the UK and Ireland73
High-resolution projections of extreme heat and thermal stress in southeastern U.S.66
Human influence on the unprecedented 2022 extreme dragon boat water event in South China: Insights from historical and projected perspectives61
Evaluation of CMIP6 models in simulating seasonal extreme precipitation over Ethiopia57
Mesoscale convective systems and contributions to flood cases in Southern West Africa (SWA): A systematic review53
Dynamical systems methods to understand projected heatwave intensification49
Sociodemographic vulnerability to cold and stormy weather in relation to health and life48
The enhanced integration of proven techniques to quantify the uncertainty of forecasting extreme flood events based on numerical weather prediction models44
What is the probability that a drought will break in Australia?42
Statistics of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Activity over North China during 2009–202342
Mesoscale patterns associated with two distinct heatwave events in coastal Santa Barbara, California, and their impact on local fire risk conditions38
The spatiotemporal characteristics of extreme drought events in China from 1961 to 2022 via a copula function38
Divergent human impacts on multi-scale hydrological drought across the conterminous United States37
Assessing the escalating human-perceived heatwaves in a warming world: The case of China36
Attribution and projection of anthropogenic suppression on frost extremes in China36
The role of extreme precipitation in driving the humidification of northwest China from 1961 to 202035
Assessing the maximum potential cooling benefits of irrigation in Australia during the “Angry Summer” of 2012/201335
Changes of extreme precipitation in the Philippines, projected from the CMIP6 multi-model ensemble35
The role of soil moisture-temperature coupling for the 2018 Northern European heatwave in a subseasonal forecast34
Corrigendum to “Human-induced climate change increased 2021–2022 drought severity in horn of Africa”[Weather and Climate Extremes (47), March 2025, 100745]34
The opposite trends in precipitation total and extremes during two rain-seasons across Ethiopia, the Water Tower of Africa34
Evaporative demand drought index for monitoring and analyzing drought conditions in arid regions of Asia and Africa32
Future changes of socioeconomic exposure to potential landslide hazards over mainland China32
Non-uniform changes of daily precipitation in China: Observations and simulations31
Anthropogenic influence has intensified the severity of summer compound hot and drought events over xinjiang, China29
Automatized spatio-temporal detection of drought impacts from newspaper articles using natural language processing and machine learning29
Flash flood detection and susceptibility mapping in the Monsoon period by integration of optical and radar satellite imagery using an improvement of a sequential ensemble algorithm29
Distinguishing environmental controls on strong vs. extreme wind gusts28
Identical hierarchy of physical drought types for climate change signals and uncertainty27
More active and severe heatwaves in the Northern Hemisphere during La Niña developing summers27
High-resolution time-lagged ensemble prediction for landfall intensity of Super Typhoon Haiyan (2013) using a cloud-resolving model26
Evaluation of extreme temperature events in the Iberian Peninsula based on Copernicus CERRA reanalysis26
Assessing livelihood vulnerability in flood-prone communities through systems thinking and the sustainable livelihood framework: A case study of Rajanpur district, Pakistan26
Meteotsunamis in the northern Baltic Sea and their relation to synoptic patterns25
Subsurface marine heat waves and coral bleaching in the southern red sea linked to remote forcing25
Temperature and moisture transport during atmospheric blocking patterns around the Antarctic Peninsula24
A new conceptual model for understanding and predicting life-threatening rainfall extremes24
Characteristics and causes of Taiwan's extreme rainfall in 2022 January and February23
Estimating tornado occurrence and tornado wind hazard in China23
An objective approach to predict the spatial property of anomalous rain-belt of Meiyu23
Assessing the effects of compound events of temperature and air pollution on weekly mortality in Spain using random forests23
Co-occurring wintertime flooding and extreme wind over Europe, from daily to seasonal timescales22
Long-term warming and interannual variability contributions’ to marine heatwaves in the Mediterranean22
A component-based approximation for trend detection of intense rainfall in the Spanish Mediterranean coast22
Global cropland exposure to extreme compound drought heatwave events under future climate change22
Attributing a deadly landslide disaster in Southeastern Brazil to human-induced climate change22
Regional compound drought and heatwave events over China and evaluation of ERA5-Land dataset based on classification approach21
Long-term observed changes in air temperature extremes over Romania (1901-2023)21
Attribution of the 2024 record-breaking precipitation event in Southern Denmark to human-induced climate change21
Conditional attribution of cold extremes in Canada: The role of atmospheric circulation in a changing climate21
Naming droughts: Historical perspectives on the scientific coining of “the Tinderbox Drought”21
Joint estimation of trend in bulk and extreme daily precipitation in Switzerland20
More than three-fold increase in compound soil and air dryness across Europe by the end of 21st century20
40-Year statistics of warm-season extreme hourly precipitation over North China20
Increasing WNP tropical cyclone-related extreme precipitation over East Asia during boreal summer associated with PDO shift20
Application of the Davies four-stage conceptual model for life-threatening rainfall extremes on the April 2024 United Arab Emirates and Oman floods20
Identifying key drivers of heatwaves: A novel spatio-temporal framework for extreme event detection20
High-Tide Flooding Frequency Projections: An Urgent Challenge for China Coastline20
Time of emergence in climate extremes corresponding to Köppen-Geiger classification20
Mechanisms of two types of summer persistent extreme precipitation events in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau19
A spatially adaptive multi-resolution generative algorithm: Application to simulating flood wave propagation19
Air-sea coupling influence on projected changes in major Atlantic hurricane events19
A dual-branch typhoon-induced wave height forecasting network with tail-aware extreme value optimization19
Impacts of the local temperature anomalies over Mongolian Plateau on heavy rainfall events in north China during July 202319
Moisture sources for the unprecedented precipitation event in the heart of Taklimakan desert19
Modelling the effects of rainstorm adaptation strategies on maize yield among rural farmers in Ekiti State, Nigeria19
Large-scale drivers and ocean-land feedbacks contributing to extreme precipitation during the January 2021 South Kalimantan flood, Indonesia19
Simulation of an intense tropical cyclone in the conformal cubic atmospheric model and its sensitivity to horizontal resolution18
Filtering CMIP6 models in the Euro-Mediterranean based on a circulation patterns approach18
Future projection of East Asian atmospheric rivers in high-resolution climate models18
Convective environments leading to microburst, macroburst and downburst events across the United States18
Assessing the predictability of the marine heatwave in the Yellow Sea during the summer of 2018 based on a deterministic forecast model18
A comprehensive risk assessment of Chinese high-speed railways affected by multiple meteorological hazards18
Long-term trend analysis of extreme climate in Sarawak tropical peatland under the influence of climate change18
Imputation of missing values in environmental time series by D-vine copulas18
Drought attribution of climate drivers using machine learning techniques18
Future projection of extreme precipitation using a pseudo-global warming method: A case study of the 2013 Alberta flooding event18
Regional drivers and characteristics of multi-year droughts18
Understanding decision-maker needs for extreme event attribution science17
Hotter summers, heavier showers: Global warming and its impact on Swiss short-duration rainfall extremes17
Application of nonstationary extreme value analysis in the coastal environment – A systematic literature review17
Attributing heavy rainfall event in Berchtesgadener Land to recent climate change – Further rainfall intensification projected for the future17
Projected future changes in water availability and dry spells in Japan: Dynamic and thermodynamic climate impacts17
Climate extremes and their impacts on agriculture across the Eastern Corn Belt Region of the U.S.17
Predicting tropical cyclone rainfall through perceptual-based identification of similar atmospheric fields17
Observational analysis of long-term streamflow response to flash drought in the Mississippi River Basin16
Corrigendum to “Increasing extreme flood risk under future climate change scenarios in South Korea” [Weather Clim. Extrem. 39 (2023) 1–12, 100552]16
Climate-induced changes to provisioning ecosystem services in rural socioecosystems in Mexico16
Attributing and projecting record-shattering September tropical night events in East Asia16
Corrigendum to “Simulating the Western North America heatwave of 2021 with analogue importance sampling” [Weather Clim. Extrem. 43 (2024) 100651]16
Compound extreme hourly rainfall preconditioned by heatwaves most likely in the mid-latitudes16
Decadal to centennial extreme precipitation disaster gaps — Long-term variability and implications for extreme value modelling16
Land-atmosphere coupling amplified the record-breaking heatwave at altitudes above 5000 meters on the Tibetan Plateau in July 202216
A pseudo global warming based system to study how climate change affects high impact rainfall events15
Convection-permitting WRF simulation of extreme winds in Canada: Present and future scenarios15
Stratosphere-troposphere coupling during stratospheric extremes in the 2022/23 winter15
Combined role of ENSO and IOD on compound drought and heatwaves in Australia using two CMIP6 large ensembles15
How explosive volcanic eruptions reshape daily precipitation distributions15
The future of extreme meteorological fire danger under climate change scenarios for Iberia15
What drives the compound drought and heat events? A dynamic perspective15
Corrigendum “Multiscale drivers of catastrophic heavy rainfall event in early August 2022 in South Korea” [Weather and Climate Extremes, 44, 2024, 1–16/10068]15
Thermodynamic and dynamic effects of anomalous dragon boat water over South China in 202214
Who is the major player for 2022 China extreme heat wave? Western Pacific Subtropical high or South Asian high?14
Contribution of land-atmosphere coupling in 2022 CONUS compound drought-heatwave events and implications for forecasting14
Estimation of skew surge uncertainties when predicting tides in the past14
Emergent constraints on future extreme precipitation intensification: from global to continental scales14
Changes in the mean and extreme temperature in the Yangtze River Basin over the past 120 years14
Quantifying moisture and sensible heat flux anomalies for compound drought and heat wave events in the Iberian Peninsula14
Seasonal prediction of summer extreme precipitation over the Yangtze River based on random forest14
Irreversibility of extreme precipitation intensity in global monsoon areas under multiple carbon neutrality scenarios14
Analysis of extreme wind gusts using a high-resolution Australian Regional Reanalysis13
Assessment of MPAS and WRF models for Severe Weather Forecasting in Southern Brazil13
Changes in atmospheric circulation amplify extreme snowfall fueled by Arctic sea ice loss over high-latitude land13
Seasonality in atmospheric circulation patterns leading to wet and dry seasons in southeast Australia and implications for droughts13
Deep learning model for heavy rainfall nowcasting in South Korea13
The role of heavy rainfall in drought in Australia13
Analysis of precipitation-related climatic conditions in European plain regions13
How persistent and hazardous will extreme temperature events become in a warming Portugal?13
Modulation of North Atlantic extratropical cyclones and extreme weather in Europe during North American cold spells13
Changes in moisture sources contributed to the onset and development of the 2017-2019 southeast Australian drought12
Anthropogenic influences on the extremely dry and hot summer of 2020 in Southern China and projected changes in the likelihood of the event12
Probabilistic medium-range forecasts of extreme heat events over East Asia based on a global ensemble forecasting system12
Flash drought and heatwave compound events increased in strength and length from 1980 to 2022 in China12
Quantifying the spatial extent and attenuation of lake thermal regulation at diurnal scales under extreme heat12
Physical responses of Baiu extreme precipitation to future warming: Examples of the 2018 and 2020 western Japan events12
Understanding the Magnification of Heatwaves over Spain: Relevant changes in the most extreme events12
Differential sensitivities of three types of compound drought and heatwave events to human-induced climate change across the globe12
The 2019–21 drought in southern Madagascar12
Intrinsic short Marine Heatwaves from the perspective of sea surface temperature and height12
High-frequency sea-level extremes: Global correlations to synoptic atmospheric patterns11
Saharan rainfall climatology and its relationship with surface cyclones11
Heat and cold waves in mainland Spain: Origins, characteristics, and trends11
Corrigendum to “Quantifying uncertainties in tropical cyclone wind hazard assessment due to synthetic track stochastic variability for Southeast Asia” [Weather Clim. Extrem. 41 (2023), 100599]11
Attribution of the human influence on heavy rainfall associated with flooding events during the 2012, 2016, and 2018 March-April-May seasons in Kenya11
Climatological context of the mid-November 2021 floods in the province of British Columbia, Canada11
Identifying recurring patterns of extreme daily precipitation using K-means algorithm: Uncovering spatial shift driven by climate change over the Italian Peninsula11
Probabilistic analysis of drought impact on wheat yield and climate change implications11
Evaluation of bulk microphysics parameterizations for simulating the vertical structure of heavy rainfall between Korea and the United States11
Hysteresis and irreversibility of global extreme precipitation to anthropogenic CO2 emission11
A spatio-temporal analysis of the role of climatic drivers influencing extreme precipitation events in a Costa Rican basin11
Sub-hourly precipitation and rainstorm event profiles in a convection-permitting multi-GCM ensemble11
What causes a heavy precipitation period to become extreme? The exceptional October of 2018 in the Western Mediterranean11
Regional characteristics of extreme precipitation events over Aotearoa New Zealand11
The impact of aerosol forcing on the statistical attribution of heatwaves11
Comparative assessment of dry- and humid-heat extremes in a warming climate: Frequency, intensity, and seasonal timing10
Towards observation- and atmospheric model-based early warning systems for meteotsunami mitigation: A case study of Korea10
Characterization of temperature and humidity effects on extreme heat stress under global warming and urban growth in the Pearl and Yangtze River Deltas of China10
Using large climate model ensembles to assess historical and future tropical cyclone activity along the Australian east coast10
Climatology and trends of severe storm environments in subtropical South America10
Quantifying hazard of drought and heat compound extreme events during maize (Zea mays L.) growing season using Magnitude Index and Copula10
Can wet heatwaves be represented by CMIP6 models and bias-corrected NEX-GDDP-CMIP6?10
Anthropogenic influence on seasonal extreme temperatures in eastern China at century scale10
Intrinsic predictability of heavy precipitation influenced by atmospheric rivers in the Western Iberian Peninsula10
Synergistic effects of precipitation and phase changes intensify future rain-on-snow events in the Tianshan and Pamir regions, Central Asia10
A strong stratospheric harbinger for cold extremes: Weak polar vortex transition from displacement to split pattern10
Trends and variability of heat waves in Europe and the association with large-scale circulation patterns10
Spatiotemporal analysis of meteorological drought across China based on the high-spatial-resolution multiscale SPI generated by machine learning10
Impacts of regional dependence and cyclone systems on joint return periods of coastal compound flooding in China10
Projected changes in mean climate and extremes from downscaled high-resolution CMIP6 simulations in Australia10
Advancing global hindcast of extreme sea levels: Insights from a 65-year study10
Extreme rainfall events in Morocco: Spatial dependence and climate drivers10
How well do satellite and reanalysis precipitation products capture North American monsoon season in Arizona and New Mexico?9
Asymmetric impacts of urbanization on precipitation in the Ordos Plateau urban agglomeration9
Robust responses of tropical and post-tropical cyclones to climate warming in WRF and CAM storyline ensembles9
Cloud-resolving time-lagged rainfall ensemble forecasts for typhoons in Taiwan: Examples of Saola (2012), Soulik (2013), and Soudelor (2015)9
Regional extreme precipitation index: Evaluations and projections from the multi-model ensemble CMIP5 over Thailand9
Dynamics of an extreme low temperature event over South Africa amid a warming climate9
Climate change enhances the propagation from meteorological to lake drought9
Efficient coastal inundation early-warning system for low-lying atolls, dealing with lagoon and ocean side inundation in Tarawa, Kiribati9
Diurnal evolution of synergistic interactions between urban heat islands and heat waves: An extreme heat wave case study in Seoul, South Korea9
Rainfall frequency analysis using event-maximum rainfalls – An event-based mixture distribution modeling approach9
Spatiotemporal analysis of temperature and precipitation extremes over Bangladesh using a novel gridded observational dataset9
Shifting northern Hemisphere snowfall extremes and their physical drivers9
Attribution of extreme events to climate change in the Australian region – A review8
Mid-century climate change impacts on tornado-producing tropical cyclones8
Predictability assessment of marine heatwaves in the Northeast Pacific based on SEAS58
Distinctive local and large-scale processes associated with daytime, nighttime and compound heatwaves in China8
High-latitude lake influence on highly concentrated precipitation from cold-season storms in western Canada8
Climate change will exacerbate population exposure to future heat waves in the China-Pakistan economic corridor8
Projected changes in rainfall amount and distribution in the Democratic Republic of Congo – Evidence from an ensemble of high-resolution climate simulations8
Anthropogenic climate change amplifies autumn heatwave risks for children during school reopening8
Distinct meteorological drivers for hot-dry, warm-humid, and hot-humid heatwave–ozone events in China8
The unprecedented spatial extent and intensity of the 2021 summer extreme heatwave event over the Western North American regions8
Dissimilar global record-breaking heatwave exposure driven by divergent population projections within shared socioeconomic pathways8
Compound atmospheric and marine hot extremes coupled with droughts in Madagascar8
Corrigendum to “Impact of urbanization on regional extreme precipitation trends observed at China national station network” [Weather and Clim. Extrem. 48 (2025) 100760]8
Extreme rainfall risk and climate change impact assessment for Edinburgh World Heritage sites8
Evaluation of statistical downscaling techniques and projection of climate extremes in central Texas, USA7
The sources of extreme precipitation predictability; the case of the ‘Wet’ Red Sea Trough7
Tropical cyclone climatology, variability, and trends in the Tonga region, Southwest Pacific7
China is suffering from fewer but more severe drought to flood abrupt alternation events7
A depth-duration-frequency model for analysis of extreme precipitation events, with application to past and projected future climates in Ireland7
Discernability of the vertical vortex structure of pre-existing disturbances and their implication for tropical cyclone formation7
Multiscale interactions driving the devastating floods in Henan Province, China during July 20217
On the occurrence of the observed worst flood in Mahanadi River basin under the warming climate7
Characterizing cold surge induced storm surge in the northern East China Sea: A 60-year hindcast reveals paradoxical trends in surge heights and return levels7
Possible increase of tropical cyclone genesis frequency over the Northwest Pacific induced by the Tambora eruption in 18157
The 2021 heatwave was less rare in Western Canada than previously thought7
Projecting hurricane risk in Atlantic Canada under climate change7
Regional assessment of typhoon wind, wave, and current multi-hazards for offshore structure design using SWAN + ADCIRC: Sensitivity to reanalysis wind forcings and extreme value distributions7
Human contribution to atmosphere-ocean thermodynamic factors affecting the intense tropical cyclones over the Arabian Sea during the post-monsoon season7
Statistical and hydrodynamic numerical modeling to quantify storm surge hazard: Comparison of approaches applied to U.S. North Atlantic coast7
The key role of extreme weather and climate change in the occurrence of exceptional fire seasons in south-central Chile7
Impacts of solar radiation modification on temperature extremes and heatwaves in Southeast Asia7
Abrupt and persistent atmospheric circulation changes in the North Atlantic under La Niña conditions7
Analysis and comparison of water vapor transport features and circulation anomalies during the super-strong Meiyu period of 2020 and 1998*7
Spatiotemporal extension of extreme heat stress over East Asia under shared socioeconomic pathways7
Trend and interannual variability of summer marine heatwaves in the tropical Indian ocean: Patterns, mixed layer heat budget, and seasonal prediction7
The role of compound climate and weather extreme events in creating socio-economic impacts in South Florida7
Investigating the spatial and temporal characteristics of compound dry hazard occurrences across the pan-Asian region6
Future trends in compound concurrent heat extremes in Swiss cities - An assessment considering deep uncertainty and climate adaptation options6
Investigation of model forecast biases and skilful prediction for Assam heavy rainfall 20226
Predictability of Northwest Pacific marine heatwaves in summer based on NUIST-CFS1.0 hindcasts6
Multiscale drivers of catastrophic heavy rainfall event in early August 2022 in South Korea6
Mechanism for compound daytime-nighttime heatwaves in the Barents–Kara Sea during the boreal autumn and their relationship with sea ice variability6
Moisture source differences between the 2020 and 1998 super Meiyu-flood events in the Yangtze River Valley6
The relative contribution of physical processes leading the May 2024 heat wave in Cuba using a novel temperature anomaly analysis6
Quantifying uncertainties in tropical cyclone wind hazard assessment due to synthetic track stochastic variability for Southeast Asia6
Performance evaluation of CMIP6 models on the Arctic-Siberian Plain teleconnection affecting the East Asian heat waves6
Subseasonal processes of triple extreme heatwaves over the Yangtze River Valley in 20226
Spatio-temporal characteristics of Heat stress over Nigeria using evaluated ERA5-HEAT reanalysis data6
Multivariate analysis of compound hail, wind and rainfall extremes in Alberta's hail alley6
Two sides of the same coin? Hydrometeorological uncertainties in impact-based flood warning systems and climate change sensitivity of floodplains6
Storm surges and extreme sea levels: Review, establishment of model intercomparison and coordination of surge climate projection efforts (SurgeMIP).6
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