Features based on peer-reviewed papers published in Weather and Climate Extremes.
Dr. Hanh Nguyen's team traced flash droughts in subtropical eastern Australia and linked them to a rare combination of climate drivers, offering some predictability for such events.
Professor Eva Paton and Johannes Vogel found that warm spells coinciding with drought have become markedly more frequent across the Mediterranean basin over recent decades, driven mainly by heat.
Professor Jorge González's team recreated Hurricane Maria with a weather model, linking its extreme rain to record-warm seas and weak wind shear and mapping risks to Puerto Rico's power poles.
Dr. Gordon Woo argues that studying near-misses and alternative outcomes of past weather disasters, collected in a database of counterfactual compound events, would make risk models more robust.
