Heatwaves in Europe: Climate school experts can comment
The heatwave swept Europe north and east, killing hundreds in Spain and Portugal.Wales reaches hottest temperature ever 98.8 degrees Fahrenheit High temperatures in parts of France 108.68 degrees Fahrenheit on Monday.high temperature also causes devastating wildfire across southwestern Europe.
heat wave is become more common In Europe, according to A recent study co-author Kay Cohenhuber, an adjunct fellow at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at the Columbia Climate Institute. This is due to changes in jet flow.
“Western Europe has seen its third intense heatwave this summer and it’s too early [in the summer],” Kornhuber told the Financial Times. In an interview Reutershe called Europe a “heat wave hotspot”.
Kornhuber and several other experts at the Columbia Climate Institute are available for comment to the media, including:
- Mingfang Ting is an atmospheric physicist studying the regional effects of climate change on heatwaves, droughts and extreme precipitation in North America and elsewhere. ting@ldeo.columbia.edu | 845-365-8374
- Richard SeegerA climate scientist at Lamont-Doherty who studies large-scale cycles that affect weather, such as El Niño, including extreme heat. His research on droughts and heatwaves in the western United States is widely cited. seager@ldeo.columbia.edu | 845-365-8743
- Cascade Tuhorsk He is a postdoctoral researcher at the Earth Institute hosted by the Center for International Geoscience Information Network (CIESIN). He focuses on how climate change affects the exposure of the global urban population to extreme heat and heat waves. cascade@ciesin.columbia.edu
More climate school heatwave experts can be found here.
