Quantifying Human Impact on the 2018 Summer Longest Heat Wave in South Korea
Seung‐Ki Min, Yeon‐Hee Kim, Sang‐Min Lee, Sarah Sparrow, Sihan Li, Fraser C. Lott, Peter A. Stott
Abstract
High-resolution large-ensemble simulations indicate that human activities have at least quadrupled the probability of occurrence of the extremely long-lasting heat waves over South Korea as observed in 2018 summer.
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