Attribution of the August 2022 Extreme Heatwave in Southern China: Role of Dynamical and Thermodynamical Processes

• DOI: 10.1175/bams-d-23-0175.1
• Publication Date: 2024-01-16T18:13:46Z
• Authors: Hainan Gong; Kangjie Ma; Zhiyuan Hu; Zizhen Dong; Yuanyuan Ma; Wen Chen; Renguang Wu; Lin Wang
• Keywords: 01 natural sciences; 0105 earth and related environmental sciences

Abstract We estimate that anthropogenic forcing caused half of the observed temperature anomaly during the August 2022 heatwave in southern China. Thermodynamical processes, especially soil moisture–SAT feedback, amplified the heatwave.