Regarding the ex-polar lands, compound hot-dry extremes prevail due to active land–atmosphere interactions. Specifically, a mid-tropospheric ridge initiates descending motions, creating clear-sky ...

As global warming intensifies and populations continue to grow, the likelihood of extreme high-temperature events is increasing. Hot–dry compound events, in particular, pose a direct threat to human ...

Human-caused climate change has doubled how often extreme heat waves and droughts strike simultaneously in low-income regions, according to peer-reviewed research spanning four decades of global data.

Drought and heatwaves occurring together – known as “compound” events – have increased “substantially” across the world since the early 2000s, a new study shows.