Attribution of the August 2022 Extreme Heatwave in Southern China: Role of Dynamical and Thermodynamical Processes
Hainan Gong, Kangjie Ma, Zhiyuan Hu, Zizhen Dong, Yuanyuan Ma, Wen Chen, Renguang Wu, Lin Wang
Abstract
Abstract We estimate that anthropogenic forcing caused half of the observed temperature anomaly during the August 2022 heatwave in southern China. Thermodynamical processes, especially soil moisture–SAT feedback, amplified the heatwave.
Topics & Concepts
Forcing (mathematics)Anomaly (physics)ClimatologyChinaAttributionEnvironmental scienceAtmospheric sciencesSouthern chinaGeologyGeographyPhysicsSocial psychologyArchaeologyCondensed matter physicsPsychologyClimate variability and modelsMeteorological Phenomena and SimulationsEcosystem dynamics and resilience