Global Increases in Compound Flood‐Hot Extreme Hazards Under Climate Warming

Gu, Ling; Troin, Magali; Yin, Jiabo; Slater, Louise; Wang, Huimin; Guo, Qinglian; Feng, Maoyuan; Hui, Qing; Zhao, Tongtiegang

doi:10.1029/2022gl097726

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“…An HW_HI/HW_TW event occurring prior to an HP event, within a given time window, is defined as an HWHP event (noted as HWHP_HI and HWHP_TW, respectively) (Lombardo and Ayyub, 2015;Zhang and Villarini, 2020;Chen et al, 2021;Liao et al, 2021;Wu et al, 2021;You and Wang, 2021;Gu et al, 2022;Ning et al, 2022). The window is chosen as 3 days in this study, which is the same as previous studies (Lombardo and Ayyub, 2015;Zhang and Villarini, 2020;Chen et al, 2021;Liao et al, 2021;Wu et al, 2021;You and Wang, 2021;Gu et al, 2022;Ning et al, 2022). In the following analyses, we also examine whether our results are sensitive to the choice of the time window (e.g., 2, 4, and, 7 days).…”

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“…Chen et al (2021) found the increased sequential flood-heatwave events across China and indicated that increased HW events dominate the increased compound events. Gu et al (2022) projected increases in bivariate compound flood-heatwave hazards globally under future warming and attributed these increases to enhancing HW events.…”

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“…Although changes in HWs and HP have been investigated individually at global and regional scales, few studies have focused on sequential heatwave-heavy precipitation (HWHP) events (i.e., an HP event occurring within several days after an HW event) (Lombardo and Ayyub, 2015;Zhang and Villarini, 2020;Chen et al, 2021;Liao et al, 2021;Wu et al, 2021;You and Wang, 2021;Gu et al, 2022;Ning et al, 2022). In the last decade, rare rainstorms tightly following the record-breaking HWs have been reported in some areas.…”

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“…Given that both HWs and HP are becoming more extreme and more frequent, the increased risk of HW accompanied by HP is expected to rise. Thus, these HWHP events have been the topic of recent studies (Lombardo and Ayyub, 2015;Zhang and Villarini, 2020;Chen et al, 2021;Liao et al, 2021;Wu et al, 2021;You and Wang, 2021;Gu et al, 2022;Ning et al, 2022).…”

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“…Since both HWs and HP over China occur mostly in summer (June-August), joint events are highly likely. Although recent studies have investigated compound flooding and hot extremes over China (Wu et al, 2021;You and Wang, 2021;Gu et al, 2022;Ning et al, 2022), the following questions remain unknown:…”

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Substantial Increase in Heavy Precipitation Events Preceded by Moist Heatwaves Over China During 1961–2019

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Both moist heatwaves (HWs) and heavy precipitation events (HP) have increased in both frequency and magnitude over China in recent decades. However, the relationship between HW and HP and changes in the lagged coincidence of events (i.e., the occurrence of an HP event several days after an HW event, noted HWHP) remain unknown. We show here that HWHP events account for nearly one-third of HP events over China in summer, with high values in North China, Northeast China, and the East arid zone. HWHP events assessed using the heat index and the wet-bulb temperature methods increased by 45.25 and 23.97% from 1961 to 2019, respectively. These concurrent HWHP events tend to be spatially clustered, and the areas affected simultaneously have grown significantly. The increase in HW is the major driver of these changes in HWHP events, except in the western arid zone and North China. Our findings provide an understanding of the spatiotemporal changes in HWHP events over China and their implications for disaster mitigation.

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Climate change exacerbates the compounding of heat stress and flooding in the mid‐latitudes

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Heat stress and flood impacts have been extensively studied separately because of their significant societal and economic impacts, albeit apart from each other. Here we show that heat stress can trigger floods across large areas of North and South America, southern Africa, Asia and eastern Australia. We also show that the compounding of heat stress and floods is projected to worsen under climate change. This effect is magnified as we move from the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) 1–2.6 to 5–8.5. Moreover, in the future, the compounding between heat stress and floods is projected to extend to Europe and Russia, two areas where it has not been identified as relevant in the past. Moreover, by intersecting our results with future projections of the population of urban agglomerations, we find that heat stress/flood compound can pose a serious risk to a large portion of the world population. These results highlight the need towards improved preparation and mitigation measures that account for the compound nature of heat stress and flooding, and how the compounding is expected to be exacerbated because of climate change.

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Applying recent advances in climate adaptation research to urban heat risk management

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There is unequivocal evidence that anthropogenic climate change is supercharging temperature and precipitation regimes globally. One of the clearest signals of this is seen in current and projected increases in extreme heat, understood as changes in temperature maximums, longer duration heatwaves, and higher night‐time temperatures. Extreme heat has substantial impacts on socio‐ecological systems through direct impacts on human health and labor productivity, crop yields and water security; and second‐order impacts on infrastructure functioning and hazards (e.g., increased fire and drought incidence). These impacts are differentiated and mediated by preexisting vulnerabilities based on who you are, what you do, where you live, and your capacities to prepare for, prevent, cope with and adapt to heat exposure. Nowhere are these increasing and differentiated impacts of heat more visible than in populous, rapidly urbanizing regions. Governments across the world are piloting and implementing heat management strategies, which are variously called heat‐health plans, heat action plans, heat resilience strategies, and so forth. We argue that such actions and policy agendas can benefit from theoretical advances in the climate change vulnerability and adaptation literature. We synthesize five theoretical advances to highlight the need for suites of actions sequenced in pathways that are more sensitive to trade‐offs, center equity as a normative goal of effective adaptation, acknowledge uncertainty and preexisting differential vulnerabilities, leverage lessons from participatory adpatation planning, and are forward‐looking and preparatory actions. We consolidate these advances and develop an approach to inform urban heat risk management.This article is categorized under: Climate, Nature, and Ethics > Climate Change and Global Justice Climate and Development > Urbanization, Development, and Climate Change The Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge > Climate Science and Decision Making

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Global Increases in Compound Flood‐Hot Extreme Hazards Under Climate Warming

Cited by 83 publications

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Substantial Increase in Heavy Precipitation Events Preceded by Moist Heatwaves Over China During 1961–2019

Substantial Increase in Heavy Precipitation Events Preceded by Moist Heatwaves Over China During 1961–2019

Climate change exacerbates the compounding of heat stress and flooding in the mid‐latitudes

Applying recent advances in climate adaptation research to urban heat risk management

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