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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Effects of Barents–Kara Seas ice and North Atlantic tripole patterns on Siberian cold anomalies96
Interannual variability of moisture sources and isotopic composition of Meiyu-Baiu rainfall in southwestern Japan: Importance of Asian monsoon moisture for extreme rainfall events86
Nonstationary seasonal model for daily mean temperature distribution bridging bulk and tails75
Mesoscale convective systems and contributions to flood cases in Southern West Africa (SWA): A systematic review69
Projected increase in windstorm severity and contribution from sting jets over the UK and Ireland63
Teleconnections link to summer heat extremes in the south-central U.S.: Insights from CMIP5 and CMIP6 simulations62
A typology of drought decision making: Synthesizing across cases to understand drought preparedness and response actions61
Evaluation of CMIP6 models in simulating seasonal extreme precipitation over Ethiopia60
Tower-observed structural evolution of the low-level boundary layer before, during, and after gust front passage in a coastal area at low latitude56
Introduction to the special issue: Compound weather and climate events54
What is the probability that a drought will break in Australia?53
The enhanced integration of proven techniques to quantify the uncertainty of forecasting extreme flood events based on numerical weather prediction models51
Assessing the escalating human-perceived heatwaves in a warming world: The case of China45
Mesoscale patterns associated with two distinct heatwave events in coastal Santa Barbara, California, and their impact on local fire risk conditions43
Changes of extreme precipitation in the Philippines, projected from the CMIP6 multi-model ensemble40
Determinants of farmers' perceptions of climate variability, mitigation, and adaptation strategies in the central highlands of Kenya39
Extreme avalanche cycles: Return levels and probability distributions depending on snow and meteorological conditions37
Future changes of socioeconomic exposure to potential landslide hazards over mainland China36
Non-uniform changes of daily precipitation in China: Observations and simulations35
Assessing the maximum potential cooling benefits of irrigation in Australia during the “Angry Summer” of 2012/201333
The Role of Extreme Precipitation in Driving the Humidification of Northwest China from 1961 to 202032
Anthropogenic influence has intensified the severity of summer compound hot and drought events over xinjiang, China32
Automatized spatio-temporal detection of drought impacts from newspaper articles using natural language processing and machine learning31
The role of soil moisture-temperature coupling for the 2018 Northern European heatwave in a subseasonal forecast31
Meteotsunamis in the northern Baltic Sea and their relation to synoptic patterns30
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 algorithm30
Temperature and moisture transport during atmospheric blocking patterns around the Antarctic Peninsula30
High-resolution time-lagged ensemble prediction for landfall intensity of Super Typhoon Haiyan (2013) using a cloud-resolving model29
An assessment of tropical cyclones in North American CORDEX WRF simulations27
Subsurface marine heat waves and coral bleaching in the southern red sea linked to remote forcing27
Identical hierarchy of physical drought types for climate change signals and uncertainty26
A new conceptual model for understanding and predicting life-threatening rainfall extremes26
A component-based approximation for trend detection of intense rainfall in the Spanish Mediterranean coast25
An objective approach to predict the spatial property of anomalous rain-belt of Meiyu25
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
Quantifying CMIP6 model uncertainties in extreme precipitation projections25
Long-term warming and interannual variability contributions’ to marine heatwaves in the Mediterranean24
Verification of forecasts for extreme rainfall, tropical cyclones, flood and storm surge over Myanmar and the Philippines23
Global cropland exposure to extreme compound drought heatwave events under future climate change23
Characterizing temporal trends of meteorological extremes in Southern and Central Ontario, Canada23
Rise in Northeast US extreme precipitation caused by Atlantic variability and climate change23
Characteristics and causes of Taiwan's extreme rainfall in 2022 January and February23
Co-occurring wintertime flooding and extreme wind over Europe, from daily to seasonal timescales23
A global perspective on the sub-seasonal clustering of precipitation extremes22
Simulating the storm environment responsible for Nepal's first observed tornado21
Naming droughts: Historical perspectives on the scientific coining of “the Tinderbox Drought”21
Joint estimation of trend in bulk and extreme daily precipitation in Switzerland21
40-Year statistics of warm-season extreme hourly precipitation over North China21
Identifying key drivers of heatwaves: A novel spatio-temporal framework for extreme event detection20
Evaluation and joint projection of temperature and precipitation extremes across Canada based on hierarchical Bayesian modelling and large ensembles of regional climate simulations20
Possible impact of urbanization on extreme precipitation–temperature relationship in East Asian megacities20
Air-sea coupling influence on projected changes in major Atlantic hurricane events20
Time of emergence in climate extremes corresponding to Köppen-Geiger classification20
More than three-fold increase in compound soil and air dryness across Europe by the end of 21st century20
Increasing WNP tropical cyclone-related extreme precipitation over East Asia during boreal summer associated with PDO shift20
Moisture sources for the unprecedented precipitation event in the heart of Taklimakan desert19
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
Convective environments leading to microburst, macroburst and downburst events across the United States19
Added value of convection-permitting simulations for understanding future urban humidity extremes: case studies for Berlin and its surroundings19
Impacts of the local temperature anomalies over Mongolian Plateau on heavy rainfall events in north China during July 202319
Filtering CMIP6 models in the Euro-Mediterranean based on a circulation patterns approach19
A spatially adaptive multi-resolution generative algorithm: Application to simulating flood wave propagation18
Imputation of missing values in environmental time series by D-vine copulas18
Simulation of an intense tropical cyclone in the conformal cubic atmospheric model and its sensitivity to horizontal resolution17
Kerala floods in consecutive years - Its association with mesoscale cloudburst and structural changes in monsoon clouds over the west coast of India17
Regional drivers and characteristics of multi-year droughts17
Investigating the potential of a global precipitation forecast to inform landslide prediction17
Compound extreme hourly rainfall preconditioned by heatwaves most likely in the mid-latitudes16
Assessing the predictability of the marine heatwave in the Yellow Sea during the summer of 2018 based on a deterministic forecast model16
Land-atmosphere coupling amplified the record-breaking heatwave at altitudes above 5000 meters on the Tibetan Plateau in July 202216
Future projection of East Asian atmospheric rivers in high-resolution climate models16
Projected future changes in water availability and dry spells in Japan: Dynamic and thermodynamic climate impacts16
A comprehensive risk assessment of Chinese high-speed railways affected by multiple meteorological hazards16
European extreme precipitation: The effects of spatio-temporal resolution of the data16
Attributing heavy rainfall event in Berchtesgadener Land to recent climate change – Further rainfall intensification projected for the future16
Climate-induced changes to provisioning ecosystem services in rural socioecosystems in Mexico16
Application of nonstationary extreme value analysis in the coastal environment – A systematic literature review16
Long-term trend analysis of extreme climate in Sarawak tropical peatland under the influence of climate change16
Climate extremes and their impacts on agriculture across the Eastern Corn Belt Region of the U.S.15
Impact of the false intensification and recovery on the hydrological drought internal propagation15
Multi-type assessment of global droughts and teleconnections15
Future projection of extreme precipitation using a pseudo-global warming method: A case study of the 2013 Alberta flooding event15
Decadal to centennial extreme precipitation disaster gaps — Long-term variability and implications for extreme value modelling14
Improved Regional Frequency Analysis of rainfall data14
Assessing the determinants of women farmers' targeted adaptation measures in response to climate extremes in rural Ghana14
Synoptic structure of a sub-daily extreme precipitation and flood event in Thohoyandou, north-eastern South Africa14
Corrigendum to “Increasing extreme flood risk under future climate change scenarios in South Korea” [Weather Clim. Extrem. 39 (2023) 1–12, 100552]14
Stratosphere-troposphere coupling during stratospheric extremes in the 2022/23 winter14
Combined role of ENSO and IOD on compound drought and heatwaves in Australia using two CMIP6 large ensembles14
Corrigendum to “Simulating the Western North America heatwave of 2021 with analogue importance sampling” [Weather Clim. Extrem. 43 (2024) 100651]14
Future intensification of precipitation and wind gust associated thunderstorms over Lake Victoria14
The future of extreme meteorological fire danger under climate change scenarios for Iberia14
How explosive volcanic eruptions reshape daily precipitation distributions14
Observational analysis of long-term streamflow response to flash drought in the Mississippi River Basin14
Discrepancies in changes in precipitation characteristics over the contiguous United States based on six daily gridded precipitation datasets14
Corrigendum “Multiscale drivers of catastrophic heavy rainfall event in early August 2022 in South Korea” [Weather and Climate Extremes, 44, 2024, 1–16/10068]13
Who is the major player for 2022 China extreme heat wave? Western Pacific Subtropical high or South Asian high?13
Typhoon strength rising in the past four decades13
Deep learning model for heavy rainfall nowcasting in South Korea13
Seasonal prediction of summer extreme precipitation over the Yangtze River based on random forest13
Thermodynamic and dynamic effects of anomalous dragon boat water over South China in 202213
Changes in the mean and extreme temperature in the Yangtze River Basin over the past 120 years13
Estimation of skew surge uncertainties when predicting tides in the past13
Revisiting the link between extreme sea levels and climate variability using a spline-based non-stationary extreme value analysis13
Seasonality in atmospheric circulation patterns leading to wet and dry seasons in southeast Australia and implications for droughts13
Emergent constraints on future extreme precipitation intensification: from global to continental scales13
Quantifying moisture and sensible heat flux anomalies for compound drought and heat wave events in the Iberian Peninsula13
Contribution of land-atmosphere coupling in 2022 CONUS compound drought-heatwave events and implications for forecasting13
How persistent and hazardous will extreme temperature events become in a warming Portugal?13
Analysis of precipitation-related climatic conditions in European plain regions13
Modulation of North Atlantic extratropical cyclones and extreme weather in Europe during North American cold spells12
The 2019–21 drought in southern Madagascar12
Physical responses of Baiu extreme precipitation to future warming: Examples of the 2018 and 2020 western Japan events12
Analysis of extreme wind gusts using a high-resolution Australian Regional Reanalysis12
Probabilistic medium-range forecasts of extreme heat events over East Asia based on a global ensemble forecasting system12
Intrinsic short Marine Heatwaves from the perspective of sea surface temperature and height12
Flash drought and heatwave compound events increased in strength and length from 1980 to 2022 in China12
The role of heavy rainfall in drought in Australia12
What causes a heavy precipitation period to become extreme? The exceptional October of 2018 in the Western Mediterranean12
Probabilistic analysis of drought impact on wheat yield and climate change implications12
Understanding the Magnification of Heatwaves over Spain: Relevant changes in the most extreme events12
Saharan rainfall climatology and its relationship with surface cyclones11
Persistent impact of spring floods on crop loss in U.S. Midwest11
Changes in moisture sources contributed to the onset and development of the 2017-2019 southeast Australian drought11
Sub-hourly precipitation and rainstorm event profiles in a convection-permitting multi-GCM ensemble11
Heat and cold waves in mainland Spain: Origins, characteristics, and trends11
Anthropogenic influences on the extremely dry and hot summer of 2020 in Southern China and projected changes in the likelihood of the event11
A generic risk assessment framework to evaluate historical and future climate-induced risk for rainfed corn and soybean yield in the U.S. Midwest11
Tracking heatwave extremes from an event perspective11
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]10
Identifying drivers of streamflow extremes in West Africa to inform a nonstationary prediction model10
Hysteresis and irreversibility of global extreme precipitation to anthropogenic CO2 emission10
Climatological context of the mid-November 2021 floods in the province of British Columbia, Canada10
A comprehensive validation for GPM IMERG precipitation products to detect extremes and drought over mainland China10
Can wet heatwaves be represented by CMIP6 models and bias-corrected NEX-GDDP-CMIP6?10
Attribution of the human influence on heavy rainfall associated with flooding events during the 2012, 2016, and 2018 March-April-May seasons in Kenya10
Regional characteristics of extreme precipitation events over Aotearoa New Zealand10
Comparative assessment of dry- and humid-heat extremes in a warming climate: Frequency, intensity, and seasonal timing10
Evaluation of bulk microphysics parameterizations for simulating the vertical structure of heavy rainfall between Korea and the United States10
Improving the drought monitoring capability of VHI at the global scale via ensemble indices for various vegetation types from 2001 to 201810
Heavy precipitation forecasts over Switzerland – An evaluation of bias-corrected ECMWF predictions10
Changes in extreme ocean wave heights under 1.5 °C, 2 °C, and 3 °C global warming10
Spatiotemporal analysis of meteorological drought across China based on the high-spatial-resolution multiscale SPI generated by machine learning10
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
Contrasting factors on the trends in hot days and warm nights over Northern Hemisphere land during summer10
Towards observation- and atmospheric model-based early warning systems for meteotsunami mitigation: A case study of Korea10
Spatiotemporal analysis of temperature and precipitation extremes over Bangladesh using a novel gridded observational dataset9
Future change in extreme precipitation in East Asian spring and Mei-yu seasons in two high-resolution AGCMs9
Non-uniform changes in different daily precipitation events in the contiguous United States9
Dynamics of an extreme low temperature event over South Africa amid a warming climate9
An assessment of the extremes and impacts of the February 2021 South-Central U.S. Arctic outbreak, and how climate services can help9
Rainfall frequency analysis using event-maximum rainfalls – An event-based mixture distribution modeling approach9
Extreme rainfall events in Morocco: Spatial dependence and climate drivers9
Using large climate model ensembles to assess historical and future tropical cyclone activity along the Australian east coast9
Anthropogenic influence on seasonal extreme temperatures in eastern China at century scale9
Formation factors of the most electrically active thunderstorm days over Poland (2002–2020)9
Efficient coastal inundation early-warning system for low-lying atolls, dealing with lagoon and ocean side inundation in Tarawa, Kiribati9
Quantifying hazard of drought and heat compound extreme events during maize (Zea mays L.) growing season using Magnitude Index and Copula9
Characterization of temperature and humidity effects on extreme heat stress under global warming and urban growth in the Pearl and Yangtze River Deltas of China9
Projected changes in mean climate and extremes from downscaled high-resolution CMIP6 simulations in Australia9
Regional extreme precipitation index: Evaluations and projections from the multi-model ensemble CMIP5 over Thailand8
Evaluating storm surge predictability on subseasonal timescales for flood forecasting applications: A case study for Hurricane Isabel and Katrina8
Mid-century climate change impacts on tornado-producing tropical cyclones8
Corrigendum to “Impact of urbanization on regional extreme precipitation trends observed at China national station network” [Weather and Clim. Extrem. 48 (2025) 100760]8
Attribution of extreme events to climate change in the Australian region – A review8
Extreme wind climate of the Arabian Peninsula characterized by using WRF simulation8
Projected changes in rainfall amount and distribution in the Democratic Republic of Congo – Evidence from an ensemble of high-resolution climate simulations8
NMDI application for monitoring different vegetation covers in the Atlantic Forest biome, Brazil8
How well do satellite and reanalysis precipitation products capture North American monsoon season in Arizona and New Mexico?8
The unprecedented spatial extent and intensity of the 2021 summer extreme heatwave event over the Western North American regions8
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 floods8
Cloud-resolving time-lagged rainfall ensemble forecasts for typhoons in Taiwan: Examples of Saola (2012), Soulik (2013), and Soudelor (2015)8
Predictability assessment of marine heatwaves in the Northeast Pacific based on SEAS58
Is the Indian monsoon rainfall linked to the Southern Ocean sea ice conditions?8
Hot spots of extreme precipitation change under 1.5 and 2 °C global warming scenarios8
Statistical and hydrodynamic numerical modeling to quantify storm surge hazard: Comparison of approaches applied to U.S. North Atlantic coast7
Climate change will exacerbate population exposure to future heat waves in the China-Pakistan economic corridor7
Human contribution to atmosphere-ocean thermodynamic factors affecting the intense tropical cyclones over the Arabian Sea during the post-monsoon season7
The key role of extreme weather and climate change in the occurrence of exceptional fire seasons in south-central Chile7
On the occurrence of the observed worst flood in Mahanadi River basin under the warming climate7
Trend and interannual variability of summer marine heatwaves in the tropical Indian ocean: Patterns, mixed layer heat budget, and seasonal prediction7
Seasonal and aridity influences on the relationships between drought indices and hydrological variables over China7
Multiscale interactions driving the devastating floods in Henan Province, China during July 20217
Wikiproject Tropical Cyclones: The most successful crowd-sourced knowledge project with near real-time coverage of extreme weather phenomena7
Cascading effects of the Changbai Mountains on an extreme weather disaster in northern Japan in January 20217
Spatiotemporal extension of extreme heat stress over East Asia under shared socioeconomic pathways7
The 2021 heatwave was less rare in Western Canada than previously thought7
Extreme rainfall risk and climate change impact assessment for Edinburgh World Heritage sites7
The role of compound climate and weather extreme events in creating socio-economic impacts in South Florida7
Distinctive local and large-scale processes associated with daytime, nighttime and compound heatwaves in China7
Evaluation of statistical downscaling techniques and projection of climate extremes in central Texas, USA7
China is suffering from fewer but more severe drought to flood abrupt alternation events7
Abrupt and persistent atmospheric circulation changes in the North Atlantic under La Niña conditions6
High-impact weather and urban flooding in the West African Sahel – A multidisciplinary case study of the 2009 event in Ouagadougou6
Decline of sea-ice in the Greenland Sea intensifies extreme precipitation over Svalbard6
Characterization of the atmospheric environment during extreme precipitation events associated with atmospheric rivers in Norway - Seasonal and regional aspects6
Spatio-temporal characteristics of Heat stress over Nigeria using evaluated ERA5-HEAT reanalysis data6
Investigating the spatial and temporal characteristics of compound dry hazard occurrences across the pan-Asian region6
The sources of extreme precipitation predictability; the case of the ‘Wet’ Red Sea Trough6
Mechanism for compound daytime-nighttime heatwaves in the Barents–Kara Sea during the boreal autumn and their relationship with sea ice variability6
Using a model comparison to support the interpretation of extreme event attribution6
Multivariate analysis of compound hail, wind and rainfall extremes in Alberta's hail alley6
Explaining recent trends in extreme precipitation in the Southwestern Alps by changes in atmospheric influences6
Analysis and comparison of water vapor transport features and circulation anomalies during the super-strong Meiyu period of 2020 and 1998*6
Subseasonal processes of triple extreme heatwaves over the Yangtze River Valley in 20226
Tropical cyclone climatology, variability, and trends in the Tonga region, Southwest Pacific6
Quantifying uncertainties in tropical cyclone wind hazard assessment due to synthetic track stochastic variability for Southeast Asia6
Predictability of Northwest Pacific marine heatwaves in summer based on NUIST-CFS1.0 hindcasts6
Increased extreme fire weather occurrence in southeast Australia and related atmospheric drivers6
Future trends in compound concurrent heat extremes in Swiss cities - An assessment considering deep uncertainty and climate adaptation options6
Performance-based projection of precipitation extremes over China based on CMIP5/6 models using integrated quadratic distance6
Moisture source differences between the 2020 and 1998 super Meiyu-flood events in the Yangtze River Valley6
On the causes of tropical cyclone driven floods in India6
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