Extreme heatwaves are likely to increase in frequency and severity, researchers report in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, largely due to human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. The finding comes the day after the United Kingdom records its hottest ever temperature and a year after an unprecedented North American heatwave doubled average temperatures and resulted in nearly 1,500 deaths.
The fresh occurrence of a fresh sea-ice extent minimum in such a short period of time drove a group of researchers at Sun Yat-sen University and Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai) in China set out to find out what had occurred and why.
Striving to improve prediction skill and overall model capabilities, a research team analyzed the Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology Climate Forecast System version 1.0 (NUIST-CFS1.0). Forecasters can rely on this model to supplement summer seasonal precipitation forecasts throughout East Africa.
Weather forecast models have long struggled to integrate satellite observations of infrared radiation in cloudy regions of the sky. But in recent years, some satellite data providers have developed new techniques to integrate such data.