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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Interannual variability of moisture sources and isotopic composition of Meiyu-Baiu rainfall in southwestern Japan: Importance of Asian monsoon moisture for extreme rainfall events105
Evaluation of CMIP6 models in simulating seasonal extreme precipitation over Ethiopia97
Mesoscale convective systems and contributions to flood cases in Southern West Africa (SWA): A systematic review75
Teleconnections link to summer heat extremes in the south-central U.S.: Insights from CMIP5 and CMIP6 simulations67
Projected increase in windstorm severity and contribution from sting jets over the UK and Ireland66
Nonstationary seasonal model for daily mean temperature distribution bridging bulk and tails64
Effects of Barents–Kara Seas ice and North Atlantic tripole patterns on Siberian cold anomalies63
Dynamical systems methods to understand projected heatwave intensification62
The enhanced integration of proven techniques to quantify the uncertainty of forecasting extreme flood events based on numerical weather prediction models59
Introduction to the special issue: Compound weather and climate events52
Changes of extreme precipitation in the Philippines, projected from the CMIP6 multi-model ensemble50
Mesoscale patterns associated with two distinct heatwave events in coastal Santa Barbara, California, and their impact on local fire risk conditions45
Tower-observed structural evolution of the low-level boundary layer before, during, and after gust front passage in a coastal area at low latitude41
What is the probability that a drought will break in Australia?39
Assessing the escalating human-perceived heatwaves in a warming world: The case of China39
Determinants of farmers' perceptions of climate variability, mitigation, and adaptation strategies in the central highlands of Kenya36
The role of extreme precipitation in driving the humidification of northwest China from 1961 to 202035
Anthropogenic influence has intensified the severity of summer compound hot and drought events over xinjiang, China35
Future changes of socioeconomic exposure to potential landslide hazards over mainland China34
Non-uniform changes of daily precipitation in China: Observations and simulations33
The role of soil moisture-temperature coupling for the 2018 Northern European heatwave in a subseasonal forecast33
Assessing the maximum potential cooling benefits of irrigation in Australia during the “Angry Summer” of 2012/201331
Automatized spatio-temporal detection of drought impacts from newspaper articles using natural language processing and machine learning31
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 algorithm28
Subsurface marine heat waves and coral bleaching in the southern red sea linked to remote forcing28
Distinguishing environmental controls on strong vs. extreme wind gusts28
An assessment of tropical cyclones in North American CORDEX WRF simulations27
More Active and Severe Heatwaves in the Northern Hemisphere during La Niña Developing Summers27
Meteotsunamis in the northern Baltic Sea and their relation to synoptic patterns27
A new conceptual model for understanding and predicting life-threatening rainfall extremes27
Temperature and moisture transport during atmospheric blocking patterns around the Antarctic Peninsula27
High-resolution time-lagged ensemble prediction for landfall intensity of Super Typhoon Haiyan (2013) using a cloud-resolving model27
Identical hierarchy of physical drought types for climate change signals and uncertainty26
An objective approach to predict the spatial property of anomalous rain-belt of Meiyu25
Characterizing temporal trends of meteorological extremes in Southern and Central Ontario, Canada25
Corrigendum to “Assessing the potential for crop albedo enhancement in reducing heatwave frequency, duration, and intensity under future climate change” [Weather Clim. Extrem. 35 (2022) 100415]25
Characteristics and causes of Taiwan's extreme rainfall in 2022 January and February24
Co-occurring wintertime flooding and extreme wind over Europe, from daily to seasonal timescales24
Quantifying CMIP6 model uncertainties in extreme precipitation projections24
A component-based approximation for trend detection of intense rainfall in the Spanish Mediterranean coast24
Long-term warming and interannual variability contributions’ to marine heatwaves in the Mediterranean24
Global cropland exposure to extreme compound drought heatwave events under future climate change23
More than three-fold increase in compound soil and air dryness across Europe by the end of 21st century22
Naming droughts: Historical perspectives on the scientific coining of “the Tinderbox Drought”22
Increasing WNP tropical cyclone-related extreme precipitation over East Asia during boreal summer associated with PDO shift22
Identifying key drivers of heatwaves: A novel spatio-temporal framework for extreme event detection22
Joint estimation of trend in bulk and extreme daily precipitation in Switzerland22
Possible impact of urbanization on extreme precipitation–temperature relationship in East Asian megacities21
40-Year statistics of warm-season extreme hourly precipitation over North China20
Simulating the storm environment responsible for Nepal's first observed tornado20
Time of emergence in climate extremes corresponding to Köppen-Geiger classification20
Spatial analysis of outdoor wet bulb globe temperature under RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 scenarios for 2041–2080 across a range of temperate to hot climates19
Simulation of an intense tropical cyclone in the conformal cubic atmospheric model and its sensitivity to horizontal resolution19
Moisture sources for the unprecedented precipitation event in the heart of Taklimakan desert19
Impacts of the local temperature anomalies over Mongolian Plateau on heavy rainfall events in north China during July 202319
Evaluation and joint projection of temperature and precipitation extremes across Canada based on hierarchical Bayesian modelling and large ensembles of regional climate simulations18
Convective environments leading to microburst, macroburst and downburst events across the United States18
Air-sea coupling influence on projected changes in major Atlantic hurricane events18
A spatially adaptive multi-resolution generative algorithm: Application to simulating flood wave propagation17
Assessing the predictability of the marine heatwave in the Yellow Sea during the summer of 2018 based on a deterministic forecast model17
Imputation of missing values in environmental time series by D-vine copulas17
Future projection of East Asian atmospheric rivers in high-resolution climate models17
Filtering CMIP6 models in the Euro-Mediterranean based on a circulation patterns approach17
Future projection of extreme precipitation using a pseudo-global warming method: A case study of the 2013 Alberta flooding event16
Land-atmosphere coupling amplified the record-breaking heatwave at altitudes above 5000 meters on the Tibetan Plateau in July 202216
Multi-type assessment of global droughts and teleconnections16
Regional drivers and characteristics of multi-year droughts16
Climate extremes and their impacts on agriculture across the Eastern Corn Belt Region of the U.S.15
Application of nonstationary extreme value analysis in the coastal environment – A systematic literature review15
Compound extreme hourly rainfall preconditioned by heatwaves most likely in the mid-latitudes15
A pseudo global warming based system to study how climate change affects high impact rainfall events15
Future intensification of precipitation and wind gust associated thunderstorms over Lake Victoria15
Long-term trend analysis of extreme climate in Sarawak tropical peatland under the influence of climate change15
A comprehensive risk assessment of Chinese high-speed railways affected by multiple meteorological hazards15
Corrigendum to “Simulating the Western North America heatwave of 2021 with analogue importance sampling” [Weather Clim. Extrem. 43 (2024) 100651]15
Observational analysis of long-term streamflow response to flash drought in the Mississippi River Basin15
Discrepancies in changes in precipitation characteristics over the contiguous United States based on six daily gridded precipitation datasets15
Attributing heavy rainfall event in Berchtesgadener Land to recent climate change – Further rainfall intensification projected for the future15
Climate-induced changes to provisioning ecosystem services in rural socioecosystems in Mexico15
Projected future changes in water availability and dry spells in Japan: Dynamic and thermodynamic climate impacts15
Corrigendum to “Increasing extreme flood risk under future climate change scenarios in South Korea” [Weather Clim. Extrem. 39 (2023) 1–12, 100552]15
Decadal to centennial extreme precipitation disaster gaps — Long-term variability and implications for extreme value modelling15
Changes in the mean and extreme temperature in the Yangtze River Basin over the past 120 years14
Thermodynamic and dynamic effects of anomalous dragon boat water over South China in 202214
Combined role of ENSO and IOD on compound drought and heatwaves in Australia using two CMIP6 large ensembles14
The future of extreme meteorological fire danger under climate change scenarios for Iberia14
Convection-permitting WRF simulation of extreme winds in Canada: Present and future scenarios14
How explosive volcanic eruptions reshape daily precipitation distributions14
Contribution of land-atmosphere coupling in 2022 CONUS compound drought-heatwave events and implications for forecasting14
Impact of the false intensification and recovery on the hydrological drought internal propagation14
Corrigendum “Multiscale drivers of catastrophic heavy rainfall event in early August 2022 in South Korea” [Weather and Climate Extremes, 44, 2024, 1–16/10068]14
Emergent constraints on future extreme precipitation intensification: from global to continental scales14
Who is the major player for 2022 China extreme heat wave? Western Pacific Subtropical high or South Asian high?14
Estimation of skew surge uncertainties when predicting tides in the past14
Stratosphere-troposphere coupling during stratospheric extremes in the 2022/23 winter14
Improved Regional Frequency Analysis of rainfall data14
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 forest13
The role of heavy rainfall in drought in Australia13
Typhoon strength rising in the past four decades13
Deep learning model for heavy rainfall nowcasting in South Korea13
How persistent and hazardous will extreme temperature events become in a warming Portugal?13
Seasonality in atmospheric circulation patterns leading to wet and dry seasons in southeast Australia and implications for droughts13
Analysis of precipitation-related climatic conditions in European plain regions13
Probabilistic medium-range forecasts of extreme heat events over East Asia based on a global ensemble forecasting system12
Modulation of North Atlantic extratropical cyclones and extreme weather in Europe during North American cold spells12
The 2019–21 drought in southern Madagascar12
Probabilistic analysis of drought impact on wheat yield and climate change implications12
Heat and cold waves in mainland Spain: Origins, characteristics, and trends12
Sub-hourly precipitation and rainstorm event profiles in a convection-permitting multi-GCM ensemble12
Flash drought and heatwave compound events increased in strength and length from 1980 to 2022 in China12
Anthropogenic influences on the extremely dry and hot summer of 2020 in Southern China and projected changes in the likelihood of the event12
Analysis of extreme wind gusts using a high-resolution Australian Regional Reanalysis12
Changes in moisture sources contributed to the onset and development of the 2017-2019 southeast Australian drought12
Intrinsic short Marine Heatwaves from the perspective of sea surface temperature and height12
Persistent impact of spring floods on crop loss in U.S. Midwest12
Saharan rainfall climatology and its relationship with surface cyclones11
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
Comparative assessment of dry- and humid-heat extremes in a warming climate: Frequency, intensity, and seasonal timing11
Physical responses of Baiu extreme precipitation to future warming: Examples of the 2018 and 2020 western Japan events11
Understanding the Magnification of Heatwaves over Spain: Relevant changes in the most extreme events11
Can wet heatwaves be represented by CMIP6 models and bias-corrected NEX-GDDP-CMIP6?11
What causes a heavy precipitation period to become extreme? The exceptional October of 2018 in the Western Mediterranean11
Tracking heatwave extremes from an event perspective11
Climatological context of the mid-November 2021 floods in the province of British Columbia, Canada11
Regional characteristics of extreme precipitation events over Aotearoa New Zealand11
Projected changes in mean climate and extremes from downscaled high-resolution CMIP6 simulations in Australia10
Using large climate model ensembles to assess historical and future tropical cyclone activity along the Australian east coast10
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
Future change in extreme precipitation in East Asian spring and Mei-yu seasons in two high-resolution AGCMs10
A spatio-temporal analysis of the role of climatic drivers influencing extreme precipitation events in a Costa Rican basin10
High-frequency sea-level extremes: Global correlations to synoptic atmospheric patterns10
Trends and variability of heat waves in Europe and the association with large-scale circulation patterns10
Improving the drought monitoring capability of VHI at the global scale via ensemble indices for various vegetation types from 2001 to 201810
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
Anthropogenic influence on seasonal extreme temperatures in eastern China at century scale10
Spatiotemporal analysis of meteorological drought across China based on the high-spatial-resolution multiscale SPI generated by machine learning10
Attribution of the human influence on heavy rainfall associated with flooding events during the 2012, 2016, and 2018 March-April-May seasons in Kenya10
Evaluation of bulk microphysics parameterizations for simulating the vertical structure of heavy rainfall between Korea and the United States10
Dynamics of an extreme low temperature event over South Africa amid a warming climate10
Extreme rainfall events in Morocco: Spatial dependence and climate drivers10
Towards observation- and atmospheric model-based early warning systems for meteotsunami mitigation: A case study of Korea10
A comprehensive validation for GPM IMERG precipitation products to detect extremes and drought over mainland China10
Contrasting factors on the trends in hot days and warm nights over Northern Hemisphere land during summer10
Hysteresis and irreversibility of global extreme precipitation to anthropogenic CO2 emission10
Heavy precipitation forecasts over Switzerland – An evaluation of bias-corrected ECMWF predictions9
An assessment of the extremes and impacts of the February 2021 South-Central U.S. Arctic outbreak, and how climate services can help9
Formation factors of the most electrically active thunderstorm days over Poland (2002–2020)9
Projected changes in rainfall amount and distribution in the Democratic Republic of Congo – Evidence from an ensemble of high-resolution climate simulations9
Cloud-resolving time-lagged rainfall ensemble forecasts for typhoons in Taiwan: Examples of Saola (2012), Soulik (2013), and Soudelor (2015)9
The new historical flood of 2021 in the Amazon River compared to major floods of the 21st century: Atmospheric features in the context of the intensification of floods9
Efficient coastal inundation early-warning system for low-lying atolls, dealing with lagoon and ocean side inundation in Tarawa, Kiribati9
Regional extreme precipitation index: Evaluations and projections from the multi-model ensemble CMIP5 over Thailand9
Mid-century climate change impacts on tornado-producing tropical cyclones9
Attribution of extreme events to climate change in the Australian region – A review9
Predictability assessment of marine heatwaves in the Northeast Pacific based on SEAS59
Non-uniform changes in different daily precipitation events in the contiguous United States9
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
How well do satellite and reanalysis precipitation products capture North American monsoon season in Arizona and New Mexico?9
Evaluating storm surge predictability on subseasonal timescales for flood forecasting applications: A case study for Hurricane Isabel and Katrina9
Seasonal and aridity influences on the relationships between drought indices and hydrological variables over China8
Extreme rainfall risk and climate change impact assessment for Edinburgh World Heritage sites8
Multiscale interactions driving the devastating floods in Henan Province, China during July 20218
Corrigendum to “Impact of urbanization on regional extreme precipitation trends observed at China national station network” [Weather and Clim. Extrem. 48 (2025) 100760]8
Climate change will exacerbate population exposure to future heat waves in the China-Pakistan economic corridor8
Is the Indian monsoon rainfall linked to the Southern Ocean sea ice conditions?8
Human contribution to atmosphere-ocean thermodynamic factors affecting the intense tropical cyclones over the Arabian Sea during the post-monsoon season8
High-latitude lake influence on highly concentrated precipitation from cold-season storms in western Canada8
The unprecedented spatial extent and intensity of the 2021 summer extreme heatwave event over the Western North American regions8
The role of compound climate and weather extreme events in creating socio-economic impacts in South Florida8
China is suffering from fewer but more severe drought to flood abrupt alternation events8
Distinctive local and large-scale processes associated with daytime, nighttime and compound heatwaves in China8
On the causes of tropical cyclone driven floods in India7
Performance-based projection of precipitation extremes over China based on CMIP5/6 models using integrated quadratic distance7
The key role of extreme weather and climate change in the occurrence of exceptional fire seasons in south-central Chile7
Spatiotemporal extension of extreme heat stress over East Asia under shared socioeconomic pathways7
Analysis and comparison of water vapor transport features and circulation anomalies during the super-strong Meiyu period of 2020 and 1998*7
Abrupt and persistent atmospheric circulation changes in the North Atlantic under La Niña conditions7
Moisture source differences between the 2020 and 1998 super Meiyu-flood events in the Yangtze River Valley7
Subseasonal processes of triple extreme heatwaves over the Yangtze River Valley in 20227
Investigating the spatial and temporal characteristics of compound dry hazard occurrences across the pan-Asian region7
Evaluation of statistical downscaling techniques and projection of climate extremes in central Texas, USA7
On the occurrence of the observed worst flood in Mahanadi River basin under the warming climate7
Mechanism for compound daytime-nighttime heatwaves in the Barents–Kara Sea during the boreal autumn and their relationship with sea ice variability7
Spatio-temporal characteristics of Heat stress over Nigeria using evaluated ERA5-HEAT reanalysis data7
Tropical cyclone climatology, variability, and trends in the Tonga region, Southwest Pacific7
The sources of extreme precipitation predictability; the case of the ‘Wet’ Red Sea Trough7
Trend and interannual variability of summer marine heatwaves in the tropical Indian ocean: Patterns, mixed layer heat budget, and seasonal prediction7
Statistical and hydrodynamic numerical modeling to quantify storm surge hazard: Comparison of approaches applied to U.S. North Atlantic coast7
Cascading effects of the Changbai Mountains on an extreme weather disaster in northern Japan in January 20217
Impacts of solar radiation modification on temperature extremes and heatwaves in Southeast Asia7
The 2021 heatwave was less rare in Western Canada than previously thought7
High-impact weather and urban flooding in the West African Sahel – A multidisciplinary case study of the 2009 event in Ouagadougou6
Quantifying uncertainties in tropical cyclone wind hazard assessment due to synthetic track stochastic variability for Southeast Asia6
The effect of experiment conditioning on estimates of human influence on extreme weather6
Downscaled CMIP6 future climate projections for New Zealand: climatology and extremes6
Assessing the potential of compound extreme storm surge and precipitation along China's coastline6
Characterization of the atmospheric environment during extreme precipitation events associated with atmospheric rivers in Norway - Seasonal and regional aspects6
The Unprecedented Late-Summer 2023 Heatwave in Southeastern South America: Attribution and future projection of similar events6
Future trends in compound concurrent heat extremes in Swiss cities - An assessment considering deep uncertainty and climate adaptation options6
Predictability of Northwest Pacific marine heatwaves in summer based on NUIST-CFS1.0 hindcasts6
Investigation of model forecast biases and skilful prediction for Assam heavy rainfall 20226
Evaluating performance of 20 global and quasi-global precipitation products in representing drought events in Ethiopia I: Visual and correlation analysis6
Synoptic-based model for reconstructing and forecasting high-frequency sea-level extremes in the Mediterranean6
Corrigendum to “Analysis of climatic extremes in the Parnaíba River Basin, Northeast Brazil, using GPM IMERG-V6 products” [Weather Clim. Extrem. 43 (2024)/ 100646]6
Human influence on the 2021 British Columbia floods6
Using a model comparison to support the interpretation of extreme event attribution6
Extreme heat events in the Iberia Peninsula from extreme value mixture modeling of ERA5-Land air temperature6
Multivariate analysis of compound hail, wind and rainfall extremes in Alberta's hail alley6
Multiscale drivers of catastrophic heavy rainfall event in early August 2022 in South Korea6
Increased extreme fire weather occurrence in southeast Australia and related atmospheric drivers6
Spatiotemporal dependence of compound drought–heatwave and fire activity in China6
Higher atmospheric aridity-dominated drought stress contributes to aggravating dryland productivity loss under global warming6
Storm surges and extreme sea levels: Review, establishment of model intercomparison and coordination of surge climate projection efforts (SurgeMIP).6
Decline of sea-ice in the Greenland Sea intensifies extreme precipitation over Svalbard6
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