Two extremes at the same time - EurekAlert

Prolonged droughts and heat waves have negative consequences both for people and the environment. If both of these extreme events occur at the same time, the impacts, in the form of wild fires, tree mortality or crop losses – to name a few examples – can be e…

image: the Image shows that for Central Europe, when using multiple plausible simulations from seven different climate models and assuming different precipitation trends, the frequency of compound ho… [+5862 chars]

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