Journal article

Publication year: 2011

Pages: 220-224

Journal: Science

Volume number: 332

Issue number: 6026

ISSN: 0036-8075

eISSN: 1095-9203

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1201224

Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Abstract: 
The summer of 2010 was exceptionally warm in eastern Europe and large parts of Russia. We provide evidence that the anomalous 2010 warmth that caused adverse impacts exceeded the amplitude and spatial extent of the previous hottest summer of 2003. "Mega-heatwaves" such as the 2003 and 2010 events likely broke the 500-year-long seasonal temperature records over approximately 50% of Europe. According to regional multi-model experiments, the probability of a summer experiencing mega-heatwaves will increase by a factor of 5 to 10 within the next 40 years. However, the magnitude of the 2010 event was so extreme that despite this increase, the likelihood of an analog over the same region remains fairly low until the second half of the 21st century.

Harvard Citation style: Barriopedro, D., Fischer, E., Luterbacher, J., Trigo, R. and Garcia-Herrera, R. (2011) The Hot Summer of 2010: Redrawing the Temperature Record Map of Europe, Science, 332(6026), pp. 220-224. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1201224

APA Citation style: Barriopedro, D., Fischer, E., Luterbacher, J., Trigo, R., & Garcia-Herrera, R. (2011). The Hot Summer of 2010: Redrawing the Temperature Record Map of Europe. Science. 332(6026), 220-224. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1201224