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The 2003 heat wave in Europe


Lessons From the Deadly European Heatwave of 2003, Two ...

Lessons From the Deadly European Heatwave of 2003, Two Decades Later · The staggering death toll in France is a reminder of what can happen when ...

Uncovering the Substantial Predictability of the 2003 European ...

Our research focuses on the 2003 European heatwave, one of the most severe and deadliest heat waves in Europe's recorded history. We find ...

Europe has had five 500-year summers in 15 years—and now this

Another deadly heat wave has Europe in its sweaty grip this week. Record temperatures topped 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 degrees Celsius) ...

Study links Europe's summer 2022 heat waves to 61600 deaths - NPR

The staggering figure suggests that European countries are struggling to adapt to the effects of climate change, even in the wake of a deadly ...

Study links heatwave deaths in London and Paris to climate change

The European summer heatwave of 2003 has been something of a focal point for scientists looking at if and how human-caused climate change ...

A Review of the European Summer Heat Wave of 2003

We show that the anticyclonic pattern corresponds more to an anomalous northern displacement of the North Atlantic subtropical high than a ...

Heat and cold — extreme heat - European Environment Agency

Prolonged waves of extreme heat are projected to increase substantially across Europe under all considered scenarios and especially in southern regions. The ...

Lessons learned from the 2003 heat wave in France

Human contribution to the European heat wave of 2003. Nature 432, 610–614. IPCC (2007). Climate change 2007 : a synthesis report. Report of the 17th IPCC ...

Impacts of summer 2003 heat wave in Europe - ETH Zurich

The severe heat wave began in Europe in June 2003 and continued through July until mid-August, raising summer temperatures 20 to 30% higher than the ...

Heatwaves - World Health Organization (WHO)

A study found that from 2000–2019 approximately 489 000 heat-related deaths occurred each year, including more than 70 000 who died during the 2003 heatwave in ...

The Summers 2003 and 2015 in South-West Germany: Heat Waves ...

In this study, we compare the characteristics of the two major heat waves of these two summers and their effect on the heat related mortality.

'100s of deaths in two cities in 2003 heatwave due to man-made ...

They calculate that in Paris, the hottest city in Europe during the heatwave in summer 2003, 506 out of 735 summer deaths recorded in the French ...

OBSERVER: A wrap-up of Europe's summer 2022 heatwave

The first signs of unusually warm weather in Europe appeared during May, when hotter-than-average air from the western Sahara moved northwards ...

Human contribution to the record-breaking July 2019 heatwave in ...

After the extreme heat that took place in the last week of June 2019, a second record-breaking heat wave struck Western Europe and Scandinavia ...

The Hot Summer - 2003 | UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

The extreme drought and heatwave that hit the United Kingdom and continental Europe during the summer of 2003 led to substantial social and environmental ...

Global warming amplified death toll during 2003 European heat wave

Climate change caused hundreds of fatalities in London and Paris during the 2003 European heat wave, simulations suggest.

Did formation of European Union lessen severity of 2003 heatwave?

Overall, the simulations suggest that the land-use change across Europe decreased peak air temperatures over much of the region, and may have ...

Europe Awaits Record-Smashing June Heat Wave

Great Britain saw its first 100°F readings in more than 300 years of recordkeeping, and similar temperatures were widespread across Europe. Adding the various ...

Cross-chapter case studies - IPCC

... the 2003 heatwave in Europe are likely to be linked to climate change. ... Niederhaser, 2006: Consequences of the 2003 European heat wave for lake temperature ...

Europe heatwave: Why are temperatures on the continent soaring?

Heatwaves occur across northern Europe when high atmospheric pressure draws up hot air from northern Africa, Portugal and Spain, raising temperatures and ...