Articles | Volume 17, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-115-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-17-115-2017
Research article
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30 Jan 2017
Research article |  | 30 Jan 2017

Heat waves in Africa 1981–2015, observations and reanalysis

Guido Ceccherini, Simone Russo, Iban Ameztoy, Andrea Francesco Marchese, and Cesar Carmona-Moreno

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Global Summary of the Day (GSOD) version 8 National Climatic Data Center ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/gsod/

ERA-Interim, produced daily by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) ECMWF http://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/data/interim-full-daily

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The purpose of this article is to show the extreme temperature regime of heat waves across Africa over recent years (1981–2015). Heat waves have been quantified using the Heat Wave Magnitude Index daily (HWMId), which merges the duration and the intensity of extreme temperature events into a single numerical index. The analysis show an increasing number of heat waves of both maxima and minima temperatures in the last decades.
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