Sentences with phrase «european summer heat wave»

Chase, T.N., K. Wolter, R.A. Pielke Sr., and Ichtiaque Rasool, 2006: Was the 2003 European summer heat wave unusual in a global context?

In 2004, a paper published in Nature showed that climate change had at least doubled the risk of the record - breaking 2003 European summer heat wave that is believed to have killed more than 70,000 people.

Schär, C., et al., 2004: The role of increasing temperature variability for European summer heat waves.

The role of increasing temperature variability in European summer heat waves.

The role of increasing temperature variability in European summer heat waves.

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«A great majority of producers experienced important difficulties in past years as a consequence of summer heat waves,» said Luis Rodrigues, a researcher with a European Commission panel studying acidification.

Heat waves lasting for weeks have a devastating impact on human health: the European heat wave of summer 2003 caused over 70,000 excess deaths [1Heat waves lasting for weeks have a devastating impact on human health: the European heat wave of summer 2003 caused over 70,000 excess deaths [1heat wave of summer 2003 caused over 70,000 excess deaths [133].

A deadly summer heat wave in Europe accelerates the divergence between European and U.S. public opinion.

EMBRACE will improve the representation of vegetation and soil processes in European ESMs, increasing the reliability of projections of summer drought and heat wave risk.

At four degrees, the deadly European heat wave of 2003, which killed as many as 2,000 people a day, will be a normal summer.

Unless we make deep and swift cuts in our heat - trapping emissions, 26 Europe could experience a heat wave similar to the one in 2003 every other year by the end of this century.23 A summer like that of 2003 would be considered ordinary4 — or even cool.25 Summers in central Europe are expected to feel like those in southern European today.27

Influence of sea surface temperature on the European heat wave of 2003 summer.

24), Tachibana et al. (14) showed that an anomalously strong positive summer NAM (as occurred specifically during the 2003 European heat wave) accounted well for hemispheric weather regimes with anomalously high midlatitude blocking activity between strongly marked polar and subtropical jets, over the period 1958 — 2005.

Black et al. (15) analyzed basic factors that likely contributed to the summer 2003 European heat wave, examining large - scale atmospheric flow, regional heat budget at the top of the atmosphere, and sea surface temperature.

Even as Europeans adapt to hotter summers, rising numbers of heat - related deaths are likely.33, 34 The 2003 heat wave shows that even high - income countries such as the Netherlands are not currently positioned to cope with extreme weather19 — a troubling prospect, as research suggests that by as early as the 2040s, if we continue on the current high emissions path, about half the summers in southern Europe are likely to be as warm as the record - breaking heat wave of 2003.26,35

In 2003, a summer heat wave killed between 22,000 and 35,000 people in five European countries.

Arctic summers ice - free by 2013 predict scientists European heat waves kill 35, — the UK's warmest year on record Rising sea levels threaten Pacific.

The heat wave was surely largely only a deadly event in the statistics in so far as it affected people already weakened severely by other factors, and even that only because of inadequate air conditioning, which might consume a lot of energy, but would do an awful lot more good than trying to lower Northern European summer temperatures through lower CO2.

Deadly summer heat wave in Europe accelerates divergence between European and US public opinion.