When heat waves swept across large parts of the planet last summer, in many places the oppressive temperatures loitered for days or weeks at a time. As climate change warms the planet, heat waves are increasingly moving sluggishly and lasting longer, according to a study published on Friday ...
"This really has strong impacts on public health," said Wei Zhang, a climate scientist at Utah State University and one of the authors of the study, which appeared in the journal Science Advances ...
Rachel White, an atmospheric scientist at the University of British Columbia who wasn't involved in the paper, said she had been waiting to see research like this. ...
topRachel White, an atmospheric scientist at the University of British Columbia who wasn't involved in the paper, said she had been waiting to see research like this.
top"This really has strong impacts on public health," said Wei Zhang, a climate scientist at Utah State University and one of the authors of the study, which appeared in the journal Science Advances
top... swept across large parts of the planet last summer, in many places the oppressive temperatures loitered for days or weeks at a time. As climate change warms the planet, heat waves are increasingly moving sluggishly and lasting longer, according to a study published on Friday
top"This really has strong impacts on public health," said Wei Zhang, a climate scientist at Utah State University and one of the authors of the study, which appeared in the journal Science Advances
topRachel White, an atmospheric scientist at the University of British Columbia who wasn't involved in the paper, said she had been waiting to see research like this.
top... in many places the oppressive temperatures loitered for days or weeks at a time. As climate change warms the planet, heat waves are increasingly moving sluggishly and lasting longer, according to a study published on Friday.
top... on public health," said Wei Zhang, a climate scientist at Utah State University and one of the authors of the study, which appeared in the journal Science Advances.
top... changes to heat wave behavior have been more noticeable since the late 1990s, Dr. Zhang said. He attributes the changes in large part to human-caused climate change, but also in part to natural climate variability.
topAlongside his atmospheric research, Dr. Zhang is helping with local efforts to plant more trees and grasses around bus stops in Salt Lake City, where people have to wait in the sun during increasingly hot summers
topZhang is helping with local efforts to plant more trees and grasses around bus stops in Salt Lake City, where people have to wait in the sun during increasingly hot summers.
topZhang is helping with local efforts to plant more trees and grasses around bus stops in Salt Lake City, where people have to wait in the sun during increasingly hot summers
topIf heat waves become more frequent, more intense, last longer and cover a greater area, he said, "that really increases the concern we have for their impacts.". . Dr. Zhang is especially concerned about cities, which are often hotter than their surrounding areas because...
topThese changes to heat wave behavior have been more noticeable since the late 1990s, Dr. Zhang said. He attributes the changes in large part to human-caused climate change, but also in part to natural climate variability
topThe new study did find a correlation between a weaker jet stream and slower heat waves. Dr. White, however, thinks more research is needed to determine whether the jet stream is truly the cause
topScientists have started to detect a larger pattern of air circulation and upper atmosphere winds like the jet streams getting weaker, at least during the summer at higher latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere.
top... larger pattern of air circulation and upper atmosphere winds like the jet streams getting weaker, at least during the summer at higher latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere.