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2003 European heatwave


2003 European heatwave - Wikipedia

The heat wave led to health crises in several countries and combined with drought to create a crop shortfall in parts of Southern Europe.

Impacts of summer 2003 heat wave in Europe

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 ...

The heatwave of 2003 - Met Office

More than 20,000 people died after a record-breaking heatwave left Europe sweltering in August 2003. The period of extreme heat is thought to be the warmest for ...

European heat wave of 2003 - Britannica

European heat wave of 2003, record high temperatures across Europe in 2003 that resulted in at least 30000 deaths (more than 14000 in France alone).

European heatwave of 2003 - YouTube

Do you remember the extreme European heatwave of summer 2003, when the UK had its hottest day on record, reaching 38.5C? Weatherman Liam ...

Uncovering the interannual predictability of the 2003 European ...

Through coupled climate simulations and hindcast experiments, we uncovered interannual predictability of the 2003 European summer heatwave that ...

The day the 2003 European heatwave record was broken - The Lancet

Quantifying excess deaths related to heatwaves under climate change scenarios: a multicountry time series modelling study

European Heat Wave 2003 - Climate Signals

The immediate cause of the extreme and unprecedented weather was a high pressure system that remained stagnant over the region, blocked by two areas of low ...

European Heat Wave - NASA Earth Observatory

In July 2003, Europe experienced an historic heat wave that killed at least 3,000 people. Image of the Day for August 16, 2003. Instrument ...

Excess mortality related to the August 2003 heat wave in France

From August 1st to 20th, 2003, the mean maximum temperature in France exceeded the seasonal norm by 11 to 12°C on nine consecutive days. A major increase in ...

Twenty years after deadly 2003 heatwave, what has France learned?

August 2003 saw nearly 15,000 people in France die from heat. Twenty years on, the country is better prepared – but temperatures are rising. RFI ...

Dramatically increasing chance of extremely hot summers since the ...

In 2003, Europe experienced a summer heatwave that resulted in tens of thousands of deaths. This study uses observation and model data to ...

Climatic Feedbacks during the 2003 European Heat Wave in

Abstract During the summer of 2003, a record heat wave over Europe occurred, to which the deaths of over 20 000 people in 18 countries were attributed, ...

2003 Heat Wave - Eurosurveillance

The 2003 European heat waves. 148. T Kosatsky. O ... Heatwave of August 2003 in Europe: provisional estimates of the impact on mortality ...

C1. The impact of the European 2003 heatwave - AR4 WGII Cross ...

A severe heatwave over large parts of Europe in 2003 extended from June to mid-August, raising summer temperatures by 3 to 5°C in most of southern and central ...

Death toll exceeded 70000 in Europe during the summer of 2003

Gathering data from 16 European countries, our study disclosed that more than 70,000 additional deaths occurred in Europe during the summer of 2003, of which ...

Deadly Heat in Europe 10x More Likely Than Decade Ago

In the summer of 2003, when temperatures soared above 100 degrees throughout western Europe, the heat wave killed more than 14,800 in France ...

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 canonical blocking ...

The 2003 heat wave in Europe: A shape of things to come? An ...

The 2003 heat wave that affected much of Europe from June to September bears a close resemblance to what many regional climate models are projecting for ...

2003 Heatwave - Cool Geography

Many parts of Europe saw their temperature records broken during this summer, including the UK . A sweltering 39 °C was recorded in Brogdale in Kent on 10 ...