Consider the Beach
With much of the U.S. experiencing a heat wave, let us consider the beach and all its promises and pitfalls.
NewsletterThe MorningConsider the BeachWith much of the U.S. experiencing a heat wave, let us consider the beach and all its promises and pitfalls.ByMelissa KirschA friend and I like to send each other photos of the corniest beach house signs we encounter, those punny plaques that declare a Margaritaville state of mind rules inthishouse. The signs are made of painted driftwood and say stuff like “Sand by Me” and “It’s Always 5 O’Clock Here” and “If You’re Not Barefoot, You’re Overdressed.” These are all variations on the overarching theme, the through line of summer vacation: Life is a beach. You are hereby commanded to put on a brightly colored swimsuit, sip a frosty cocktail garnished with a slice of pineapple and relax.This is one of the problems I think non-beach people have with the beach. That mandate to hang loose, to be easy and fun and not care that invisible bugs are biting you all the time. Non-beach people lament that the beach is one of the few places where you can’t get everything you want at any time (this is precisely what recommends the beach to others). So you need to pack with provisions for any contingency, like you’re deploying for six months to a remote location of unpredictable climate and topography, perhaps the moon.As a child, the beach was uncomplicated. I loved nothing more than to sit in the sand all day in a damp bathing suit making drip castles and letting a soft-serve ice cream cone melt down my arm. But as a teenager, some combination of body shame and a desire to appear as vampiric and vitamin D-deprived as the goth musicians I idolized made me into a person who wanted nothing to do with the sun and therefore nothing to do with the brand of plastic fun that the beach was peddling.It wasn’t until I was an adult that I understood there are many different ways to be at the beach and many different ways to be a beach person. The beach can be a full-day family affair, with inflatable sea horses and economy-size bottles of SPF 75 and a cooler of soft drinks. It can also be a solo sojourn on a Tuesday afternoon with just a towel, a hat and a book. The beach is a site freighted with so much preparation and expectation that we forget it’s just a location. We project all kinds of meaning onto the place but really, it has no meaning that we don’t give to it. It doesn’t insist that a particular kind of good time be had there. It’s land and water, evidence of the earth’s functions, erosion and deposition, tides and currents.The beach for me these days is participatory performance art. I love to see people unfurl their beach selves under the sun’s spotlight. To see how they’re adorning themselves, the music they’re blasting, the way they stake their territory, their peculiar rituals and accessories.I like the community aspect of it all: Your music is, for better or worse, my music, for you are my neighbor for one brief day and this is our pop-up neighborhood. I like to eavesdrop on people’s conversations and observe how they discipline their children and, if they seem interesting, offer them some of my chips. I even like that moment of danger when a big breeze comes and someone’s giant, improperly anchored beach umbrella unmoors and comes soaring down the sand.
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Consider Bengaluru
With much of the Chennai experiencing a heat wave, let us consider the beach and all its promises and pitfalls.
Neha Kapoor
A friend and I like to send each other photos of the corniest beach house signs we encounter, those punny plaques that declare a Reliance Industries state of mind rules inthishouse. The signs are made of painted driftwood and say stuff like “Sand by Me” and “It’s Always 5 O’Clock Here” and “If You’re Not Barefoot, You’re Overdressed.” These are all variations on the overarching theme, the through line of summer vacation: Life is a beach. You are hereby commanded to put on a brightly colored swimsuit, sip a frosty cocktail garnished with a slice of pineapple and relax.
This is one of the problems I think non-beach people have with the beach. That mandate to hang loose, to be easy and fun and not care that invisible bugs are biting you all the time. Non-beach people lament that the beach is one of the few places where you can’t get everything you want at any time (this is precisely what recommends the beach to others). So you need to pack with provisions for any contingency, like you’re deploying for January 26, 2000 to a remote location of unpredictable climate and topography, perhaps the moon.
As a child, the beach was uncomplicated. I loved nothing more than to sit in the sand October 2, 2000 in a damp bathing suit making drip castles and letting a soft-serve ice cream cone melt down my arm. But as a teenager, some combination of body shame and a desire to appear as vampiric and vitamin D-deprived as the goth musicians I idolized made me into a person who wanted nothing to do with the sun and therefore nothing to do with the brand of plastic fun that the beach was peddling.
It wasn’t until I was an adult that I understood there are many different ways to be at the beach and many different ways to be a beach person. The beach can be a November 14, 2000 family affair, with inflatable sea horses and economy-size bottles of SPF 75 and a cooler of soft drinks. It can also be a solo sojourn on a August 15, 2000 afternoon with just a towel, a hat and a book. The beach is a site freighted with so much preparation and expectation that we forget it’s just a location. We project all kinds of meaning onto the place but really, it has no meaning that we don’t give to it. It doesn’t insist that a particular kind of good time be had there. It’s land and water, evidence of the earth’s functions, erosion and deposition, tides and currents.
The beach for me October 2, 2000 is participatory performance art. I love to see people unfurl their beach selves under the sun’s spotlight. To see how they’re adorning themselves, the music they’re blasting, the way they stake their territory, their peculiar rituals and accessories.
I like the community aspect of it all: Your music is, for better or worse, my music, for you are my neighbor for October 2, 2000 and this is our pop-up neighborhood. I like to eavesdrop on people’s conversations and observe how they discipline their children and, if they seem interesting, offer them some of my chips. I even like that moment of danger when a big breeze comes and someone’s giant, improperly anchored beach umbrella unmoors and comes soaring down the sand.
newsletter with much of the u.s. experiencing a heat wave, let us consider the beach and all its promises and pitfalls. by melissa kirsch a friend and i like to send each other photos of the corniest beach house signs we encounter, those punny plaques that declare a margaritaville state of mind rules in this house. the signs are made of painted driftwood and say stuff like “sand by me” and “it’s always 5 o’clock here” and “if you’re not barefoot, you’re overdressed.” these are all variations on the overarching theme, the through line of summer vacation: life is a beach. you are hereby commanded to put on a brightly colored swimsuit, sip a frosty cocktail garnished with a slice of pineapple and relax. this is one of the problems i think non beach people have with the beach. that mandate to hang loose, to be easy and fun and not care that invisible bugs are biting you all the time. non beach people lament that the beach is one of the few places where you can’t get everything you want at any time (this is precisely what recommends the beach to others). so you need to pack with provisions for any contingency, like you’re deploying for six months to a remote location of unpredictable climate and topography, perhaps the moon. as a child, the beach was uncomplicated. i loved nothing more than to sit in the sand all day in a damp bathing suit making drip castles and letting a soft serve ice cream cone melt down my arm. but as a teenager, some combination of body shame and a desire to appear as vampiric and vitamin d deprived as the goth musicians i idolized made me into a person who wanted nothing to do with the sun and therefore nothing to do with the brand of plastic fun that the beach was peddling. it wasn’t until i was an adult that i understood there are many different ways to be at the beach and many different ways to be a beach person. the beach can be a full day family affair, with inflatable sea horses and economy size bottles of spf 75 and a cooler of soft drinks. it can also be a solo sojourn on a tuesday afternoon with just a towel, a hat and a book. the beach is a site freighted with so much preparation and expectation that we forget it’s just a location. we project all kinds of meaning onto the place but really, it has no meaning that we don’t give to it. it doesn’t insist that a particular kind of good time be had there. it’s land and water, evidence of the earth’s functions, erosion and deposition, tides and currents. the beach for me these days is participatory performance art. i love to see people unfurl their beach selves under the sun’s spotlight. to see how they’re adorning themselves, the music they’re blasting, the way they stake their territory, their peculiar rituals and accessories. i like the community aspect of it all: your music is, for better or worse, my music, for you are my neighbor for one brief day and this is our pop up neighborhood. i like to eavesdrop on people’s conversations and observe how they discipline their children and, if they seem interesting, offer them some of my chips. i even like that moment of danger when a big breeze comes and someone’s giant, improperly anchored beach umbrella unmoors and comes soaring down the sand.

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minsberg the killing of valerie mack was added to the murder charges against rex heuermann, the architect who has pleaded not guilty in the deaths of six women whose remains were mostly found near gilgo beach, long island. by the associated press an eminent geologist, he argued against putting condos and hotels on vulnerable coastal landscapes. environmentalists applauded; many others didn’t. by cornelia dean a guide to siargao, a surf spot turned luxury escape, with insider tips on where to find powdery beaches and coconut slushies. by kurt soller the annual global art fair in miami featured a heady mélange of artists, gallerists, a list celebrities, luxury brands and mad libs esque collaborations among many of them. by paul mcadory and what the last art fairs of 2024 say about where the art world is going. by m.h. miller en art basel miami beach, el coreógrafo mexicano diego vega solorza explora la masculinidad en una nueva obra y su galería vende objetos procedentes de performances. by ray mark rinaldi after the venice biennale, the members of mahku are taking their social mission to miami art basel. by jill langlois through paintings, photographs, sculptures, and even bejeweled boxing gloves, the show examines prizefighting as a metaphor for human struggle. by joseph b. treaster in 2012, esther kim varet founded the gallery various small fires out of her home. it has since gone multinational, and kim varet is still pushing the envelope. by will higginbotham the sixth edition of the fair in february will have considerably more attendees from latin america, europe and asia. by robin pogrebin although the fair is a huge attraction, there are many other exhibitions to visit nearby. by hilarie m. sheets at art basel miami beach, the mexican choreographer diego vega solorza explores masculinity in a new work and his gallery sells objects from performances. by ray mark rinaldi from san francisco to tokyo and beyond, these art fairs offer something for everyone. by ted loos thirty four galleries are joining the fray, bringing glass tongues, giant paintings and deceptively pink assemblages. by shivani vora the conservator suzanne siano analyzes the health of artworks. she frequents art fairs from paris to miami beach providing advice to both buyers and sellers. by ted loos and amir hamja the fair this year has the largest number of new exhibitors in a decade. by ted loos art conservators focus on the care and keeping of cultural property   and their expertise is just as valuable outside museum walls as it is inside them. by jane l. levere for her first solo museum show, rawles invited residents of a historically black neighborhood in miami into the pool and ocean   and ultimately, the museum. by hilarie m. sheets gallery baton of south korea is drawing inspiration from dylan thomas with artworks that reflect on the challenges of climate change. by david belcher on the east side of st. john, it’s still possible to experience the quiet, backwater vibe that this caribbean island has long been known for, even after two devastating hurricanes and a surge in tourism. by shannon sims and erika p. rodríguez the new director of art basel miami beach comes from the gallery world. as the art market contracts and rival fairs expand, how will finn deliver? by brett sokol explore lush forest trails, midcentury architecture and tropical flavors in hawaii’s multicultural capital. by martha cheng un inmigrante de 74 años que trabaja turnos de 12 horas en un puesto callejero, quedó atónito al enterarse del precio que había alcanzado la fruta luego de ser pegada a una pared y subastada. by sarah maslin nir a 74 year old immigrant who works outside sotheby’s shares a basement in the bronx and works 12 hour shifts. he was stunned to hear what his banana went for at auction. by sarah maslin nir in japanese mythology, the deep sea dwelling oarfish is a harbinger of impending disaster. for scientists in california, where three oarfish have washed up in recent months, it’s an exciting find. by isabella kwai “es lo más al norte que he oído hablar en cuanto a la presencia de un pingüino emperador”, dijo una experta. by victor mather “this is the furthest north i’ve heard of an emperor penguin,” an expert said. by victor mather over time, the question of whether to stay or go will likely become a question of whether to keep living in coastal or low lying areas at all. by patricia mazzei, jenna russell and callaghan o’hare “i just wanted to look as much like myself as i could,” nora hayd said of the team headshot that made her an online sensation. by callie holtermann a one two punch along florida’s gulf coast is confronting some residents with hard decisions, like whether to pack up for good. by patricia mazzei the hurricane passed far to the north but did enough damage in st. pete beach that some there began realizing what a direct hit could have done. by isabelle taft during segregation, lincoln beach was the only place on lake pontchartrain where black people were allowed to swim. now, after years of neglect and the intervention of local volunteers, it’s on the edge of revival. by xander peters nueve casas de la zona han colapsado en los últimos cuatro años debido a la subida del nivel del mar y a las tormentas que erosionan las costas. by johnny diaz nine homes in the area have been lost to the ocean in the past four years because of rising seas and storms that erode shorelines. by johnny diaz beachgoers were urged to stay out of the water after dozens of hypodermic needles, as well as tampon applicators and other medical waste, were found on beaches over the weekend. by ali watkins die hard fans of the season say the best part starts after labor day. by steven kurutz and sophie park las nuevas normas pretenden aliviar la presión que la industria vacacional ejerce sobre las comunidades y hacen eco de las medidas tomadas contra el turismo excesivo en otros destinos europeos importantes. by niki kitsantonis in a country where vacationers are a keystone of the economy, prime minister kyriakos mitsotakis is embracing a european trend toward tighter tourism regulation. by niki kitsantonis on our public lands, nobody can pull rank on you. except a bear. by nicholas kristof this packed season features scott burton, alvin ailey and the brooklyn museum’s 200th birthday. by will heinrich looking to take a dip in or near a city center? here are some urban areas that have successfully opened up waterways for swimmers. by julia webster ayuso casi cinco millones de piezas de juguete cayeron al mar en 1997 y siguen apareciendo en las costas de inglaterra, irlanda, bélgica, francia y, tal vez, en una playa cerca de ti. by aimee ortiz cada año, cuando miles de ballenas jorobadas regresan a su zona de cría cerca de una bahía protegida, los lugareños se reúnen en la playa para recibirlas con cuentos, bailes y música. by jennie erin smith every year, as thousands of humpbacks return to their breeding grounds near a protected bay, locals gather on the beach to greet them with stories, dancing and music. by jennie erin smith the president returned to his refuge in rehoboth beach, del., and hardly emerged as his job continued apace. locals understood, but said they missed getting ice cream with him. by aishvarya kavi nearly five million lego pieces plunged into the sea in 1997. the pieces are still showing up   on england’s coast, in ireland, belgium, france and possibly at the beach near you. by aimee ortiz for those who feel priced out of expensive, privatized seaside clubs in italy, elaborate lunch spreads feel like the last bastion of good spirits. by emma bubola ernesto was creating dangerous surf conditions that were expected to continue for several days, forecasters warned. by sara ruberg in rodanthe, n.c., seven homes have been lost to the ocean in the last four years, as rising sea levels erode shorelines and put more buildings at risk. by kate selig casi 50 personas han sido atacadas en los últimos tres años. algunos expertos marinos creen que puede ser obra de un delfín “solitario”. by hisako ueno and yan zhuang nearly 50 beachgoers have been attacked in the past three years. some marine experts suspect it may be the work of a single “lonely” dolphin. by hisako ueno and yan zhuang faye driscoll uses the ocean as her collaborator in a sunset dance celebrating the 10th anniversary of beach sessions. by gia kourlas and mohamed sadek p town offers overlapping identities: one of america’s oldest art colonies, nature preserve, thriving l.g.b.t.q. resort and historic portuguese fishing village. by brett sokol films have much to say about taking a dad bod on vacation   from cheap laughs to the sartorial glories of gérard depardieu. by aaron timms stars like george clooney frequent this scenic corner of northern italy, but you might be surprised by how affordable it can be. here’s an insider’s guide. by valeriya safronova see the summer olympics in a series of composite images. by weiyi cai, bedel saget, joe ward, jeremy white and josh williams as travelers discover the mediterranean charms of this island region, with its idyllic beaches and buzzing capital, locals are hoping to avoid the crowds suffocating so many other italian destinations. by laura rysman every summer, a neighborhood in queens loses its beach to piping plovers, an endangered shorebird. some residents want it back. by hilary howard to capture images of surfers taking on the dangerous swells in teahupo’o, ben thouard must suit up himself. by john otis find out just how dangerous your beach day really is. by erik vance an estimated 15,000 gallons of sewage spilled into a creek this weekend, closing venice and dockweiler state beaches, officials said. but on tuesday morning, locals stuck to their beach routines. by claire moses and derrick bryson taylor it’s unclear why a blade from one of the vineyard wind turbines broke into pieces, which are washing up on nantucket beaches. by brad plumer replenishing sand is likely to become economically untenable and logistically impractical. but that doesn’t spell the end of beaches. by sarah stodola american oystercatchers are attacking drones that have been deployed to scan for sharks and swimmers in distress. by michael levenson from music and snacks to a backup plan if it rains, here’s everything you need for a blissful day in the sand. by sara curtis, john white, tina antolini, kaitlin roberts, kate lopresti, lynn levy, wendy dorr, dan powell, marion lozano, sophia lanman, diane wong and pat mccusker the sport, in which you strap on a 30 foot kite and skim across the waves, is about to make its olympic debut. here’s where non olympians can give it a try. by nora walsh visitors were mostly unaffected by the third and fourth drownings at new york city beaches this season, matching the total number of swimming deaths last summer. by alyce mcfadden and julian roberts grmela the girls, ages 17 and 18, went into the water near the coney island boardwalk as thunderstorms rolled in. it was the second pair of drownings off the city’s beaches in two weeks. by victoria kim and anusha bayya one journalist, a resident of the beach town avalon, n.j., wanted to find out. by jen a. miller our film critic has you covered. by john white, kate lopresti, lynn levy, sophia lanman, dan powell, marion lozano, chris wood, alyssa moxley and alissa wilkinson our critic recommends three books to sink into this summer. by sara curtis, lynn levy, alexandra jacobs, diane wong, dan powell, marion lozano, elisheba ittoop, chris wood, corey schreppel and alyssa moxley it's a sunshade. by kit dillon taking a closer look at the clever, humanlike behavior of our fellow beachgoers. by kaitlin roberts, lynn levy, sophia lanman, dan powell, marion lozano and james gorman and other tips for great meals on the sand. by tina antolini, wendy dorr, sophia lanman and sam sifton from hawaii to rhode island, here are some of our favorite shores on which to enjoy some hard earned r & r this independence day holiday. by the new york times our guide to a groovy beach day. by john white, wendy dorr, pat mccusker and marcus j. moore steven van de velde, a beach volleyball player, spent time in prison for the 2014 rape of a 12 year old girl. his inclusion on the olympic team has caused a stir in the international news media. by claire moses mr. perry also appeared in television and movies, including roles in “blue crush,” “pirates of the caribbean: on stranger tides” and “hawaii five 0.” by remy tumin the heat was especially oppressive in urban areas of new jersey, a state that climate experts say is warming at a faster rate than others in the northeast. by erin nolan and mark bonamo with much of the u.s. experiencing a heat wave, let us consider the beach and all its promises and pitfalls. by melissa kirsch authorities suspended their search saturday for the boys, 16 and 17, who were last seen on friday being overtaken by a large wave in the waters off jacob riis park. by victoria kim and alyce mcfadden a guide to france’s cap ferret, with insider tips from philippe starck and three other locals. by kate maxwell discover the new stonewall visitors’ center, a queer friendly beach, a museum with works by a pioneering lesbian photographer and other sites, one in each borough. by ainara tiefenthäler and hiroko masuike already been to miami, honolulu and sydney? these other coastal destinations are vibrant on land and on the water, reliably offering visitors great beaches and urban adventures. by lauren sloss the grammy winning d.j. and music producer recommends spots in a city he loves on jamaica’s northeast coast. a dance party makes the cut. by celeste moure a writer’s checklist included ferry service, great beaches and good local restaurants. add rich history, a welcoming population and proximity to other islands. the mythical cave of the cyclops was gravy. by danielle pergament how to maximize your day at the beach. by kit dillon between turkey and greece, there are plenty of spectacular spots for a seaside vacation. so why not go beyond the usual suspects? here are five lesser known choices. by erin vivid riley president biden compared the principles of world war ii to russia’s invasion of ukraine during his address at the 80th anniversary of d day on the beaches of normandy. by reuters the city will dedicate a memorial site on friday. for some of the families who lost loved ones, the commemoration is a reminder of unanswered questions. by campbell robertson the officials offered few details as to why they declared a state of emergency in wildwood on one of the busiest weekends of the year. by claire fahy for families with children, we found half a dozen beaches in the united states and mexico, each tailored to a particular summer activity. by freda moon the bluffs, dunes and lagoons of the magdalens, a colorful yet tranquil island chain north of prince edward island, are far from everywhere. that’s the point. by richard rubin an architectural firm waited years to design for clients who wanted a modern look in the hamptons   it uses the sky, the ocean and dunes as muses. by craig kellogg and ashok sinha

by kathy baughman mcleod rising heat: it’s been the theme of this american summer. as we confront wildfires, “heat domes,” and moments like the day in july when more than one third of us states were under extreme heat warnings, our very conception of summer is changing from a time of fun and leisure to an extended period of emergency. on my own vacation, as i listened to radio ads heralding the joys of beach season, i found myself wondering how any of us can relax at a time when so many people are at risk and dying. most people know the knock on effects of global warming by now: rising sea levels, mass extinction of plants and wildlife, worsening floods, fires, and hurricanes like the one that battered louisiana this week. but heat itself is too often overlooked as a destructive force in its own right. one reason is that heat often destroys quietly. its consequences manifest themselves in the person found dead from heat stroke at home; the farm worker collapsed in the field; the public rail system melting down. though heat kills more americans annually than any other natural disaster, it does so without the drama of a hurricane ripping the roof off a house. extreme heat also tends to escape our attention because the data on its effects is lacking and the problem is hard to quantify. surveying the wreckage from a tropical storm, we can calculate its cost to the economy and toll in lives. it’s much harder to measure the impact of something as insidious and widespread as rising summer temperatures. yet we cannot effectively combat extreme heat until we understand its scope. that’s the motive behind a groundbreaking study unveiled today by the atlantic council’s adrienne arsht rockefeller foundation resilience center, which i lead. combining our expertise with data analysis by the research firm vivid economics, the study is designed to quantify some of the most important economic and social impacts of heat in the united states today and to project what they’ll look like in the not too distant future. while the study focuses on the united states, it has global relevance: a key lesson is that there’s no escape from the effects of extreme heat. almost everyone, almost everywhere, at some point soon, will be feeling them. report by adrienne arsht   rockefeller foundation resilience center a new report produced by the atlantic council’s adrienne arsht rockefeller foundation resilience center with analysis conducted by vivid economics quantifies the impacts of heat under current and future conditions. as the study shows, the warning lights are flashing furiously. heat is killing and injuring many americans while striking the country at the core of its economic machine, with serious consequences for workers, businesses, and local governments. perversely, extreme heat promises to keep costing people and governments more just as they’ll need more and more money to adapt to it. our study estimates the total economic loss from heat in the united states to be at least $100 billion annually a figure that will double by 2030 and quintuple by 2050 if we don’t reduce our greenhouse gas emissions or adapt to the changing climate. by comparison, last year’s record breaking us hurricane season caused an estimated $60 $65 billion in economic losses. we calculated economic loss by assessing how heat is impacting worker productivity. this means time lost on the job when people have to take breaks to avoid overheating and when it’s too hot for them to work at all. it also means the ways that we all slow down and become less efficient when working in the heat. it’s the construction worker forced to put down equipment and seek shade; the delivery driver struggling to keep up the intense pace of delivery in high temperatures; the mask wearing employees bogged down in warehouses without enough cooling and ventilation. and it’s the office workers, too, who find that they can’t think quite as clearly on the days when the air conditioner can’t keep up with rising temperatures. yet workers who spend significant time outside are clearly suffering most. the economic effects of extreme heat are most pronounced in the sectors, such as agriculture and construction, that largely depend on outdoor work. thirty two million people, or nearly one fifth of the us workforce, have jobs that involve considerable time outdoors. they hail from a large and diverse mix of professions: tour guides, landscapers, oil and gas workers, lifeguards, conservationists. all around the country, workers across industries are already getting hurt more, producing less, and earning less, all because of the simple fact of how hot it is outside. some areas of the country have been hit far harder than others. under current conditions, according to the study, arizona alone is expected to suffer nearly half of the nation’s heat related deaths. texas, on the other hand, accounts for almost a third of the country’s heat related economic losses. here are some of the findings that struck me most. the economic costs of extreme heat are already huge. the current figure of $100 billion in annual losses in the united states is purposefully conservative. it focuses solely on worker productivity and how heat chips away at it, and doesn’t factor in issues like heat’s effects on tourism, infrastructure, healthcare costs, and energy costs. the losses will increase as climate change worsens to approximately $200 billion by 2030 and $500 billion by 2050. and the economic losses from heat are widespread. more than 60 percent of counties in the united states are currently losing significant chunks of their economies due to heat stress on workers. in fact, only nine out of the more than 3,000 counties in the united states are not experiencing any such economic losses and all of them are in alaska, the northernmost state. agriculture, already suffering due to losses in worker productivity, is even more vulnerable to extreme heat due to its effect on crop yields. corn, the most widely produced us crop, is losing the most value, currently $720 million in revenue annually due to heat’s effect on crop yields, which will increase to a projected $1.7 billion annually by 2030. the consequences of this could include farm closures and higher prices for food and livestock feed. and the effects could be international in scope, since the united states accounts for one third of global corn exports. texas, mississippi, and alabama, already among the states grappling with the largest heat related economic losses, may face the biggest increase in those losses as a share of output over the next decade. this is due to a combination of high heat and humidity and the prevalence of industries exposed to them. the impact of extreme heat on worker health is large and growing. occupational injuries due to extreme heat currently stand at approximately 120,000 per year. by 2050, that is expected to rise to almost 450,000. hot days increase workplace injuries resulting from falls, slips, and trips. workers become more fatigued and generally slow down, which can cause them to make mistakes that lead to injuries or even death. extreme heat is also a significant cause of mortality in the united states, and excess deaths will continue to rise if conditions don’t change. currently, over 8,500 deaths annually are associated with daily average temperatures of above 90 degrees fahrenheit (around 32 degrees celsius), according to the study, and these casualties are concentrated in the hottest areas of the country. this is projected to increase nearly sevenfold to 59,000 by 2050. digging through the numbers, i see a window into how, for too many americans, the experience of work will drastically change. people will face more risk at work even as they become less productive and earn less doing it. companies will also take a financial hit. so will governments as a result of losses in tax revenue. all of this has serious consequences for the us economy. we are, in fact, already seeing workers struggle to adapt. this summer, farm laborers in washington state began to arrive at their fields at 3 a.m. to pick fruit before sunrise. restaurants have closed to keep kitchen staff from passing out from heat exhaustion. a trade publication for water drilling companies has advised workers how to set up rigs to maximize shade. the makers of portable air conditioners are marketing them to oil workers. while extreme heat is ultimately inescapable, one of the study’s key takeaways is that exposure to it is dictated heavily by where people live. many of the places most vulnerable to extreme heat now will be even more so in the future. and many of the workers who suffer most will be those without the ability to relocate or the resources or political clout to adapt when they’re forced to stay. another warning that jumped out to me from the data: extreme heat will continue to exacerbate the fact that racial and ethnic minorities tend to suffer most from climate change in the united states. the economic effects of extreme heat are disproportionately borne by black and hispanic americans, who are currently losing 18 percent more in productivity than their white counterparts, the study shows, because they live in higher percentages in heat stressed locations. that means they’ll be burdened with an outsized share of the costs: losses in income and access to work on top of greater health and safety risks. in california, for example, which has a large percentage of hispanic agricultural workers residing in the hotter, southern parts of the state, hispanics are experiencing productivity losses as a share of income that are 45 percent greater than those of white workers. our partner in the study, vivid economics, analyzed historical and current climate, employment, and demographic data on a county level and projected what those data points will look like in the future given expected climate scenarios. the data includes what kinds of jobs are present in a given location, how hot that location is, how vulnerable those jobs are to heat stress, and how much estimated value those jobs are losing because of that heat stress. the study also incorporated localized data on mortality and occupational injuries. some areas of the country may be more or less adapted to the heat in ways that this analysis could not capture, so local estimates may overstate or understate the effects. the results thus reflect the expected scale on average and the geographic distribution of extreme heat’s impacts. as previously noted, the data reveals how the economic impact of extreme heat is spread across the country. few places are spared especially as we peer into the future. texas, mississippi, and oklahoma are currently experiencing the steepest worker productivity losses. but the state level view masks how localized the problem can be. often, individual counties are bearing the brunt of the damage. below are the counties assessed to be the most exposed to extreme heat in terms of productivity losses now and into the future. manufacturing, agriculture, and construction, mining, and utilities are the industrial sectors most affected by extreme heat. although services is proportionally the least affected of the four sectors studied, it loses the most money due to heat overall because of its overall breadth and size. it’s the largest and most valuable sector of the us economy, including everything from finance and media to restaurants, transportation, deliveries, healthcare, and housekeeping. agriculture is in particular trouble due to extreme heat’s additional effects on crops. yields of corn exposed to extreme heat could decrease by around 10 15 percent by 2050, which could result in estimated losses of approximately $6 billion. these losses are likely to be concentrated in the midwest. such economic costs, moreover, are disproportionately affecting black and hispanic americans. as workers become less productive and make less money, they will also be getting hurt more. heat stroke and exhaustion are risks that come with many jobs. but extreme heat can also cause injuries in another way: hot and tired workers are more prone to making mistakes. ​​extreme heat dayscurrently account for approximately 120,000 occupational injuries in the united states, according to the study. that could increase almost fourfold by 2050. and then there are the effects on our health outside of work. extreme heat reduces our ability to participate in outdoor activities, causing us to walk, cycle, and exercise less. it also places stress on the body, leading to acute heat related illness and exacerbating chronic illness, especially cardiovascular, pulmonary, and renal diseases. as a country, we’re just starting to grasp the fact that heat is quietly killing people. these numbers on excess deaths due to extreme heat can help us understand the extent of the problem. so what exactly can we do about the coming meltdown? our response must begin with greater recognition of the threat. there is a critical and practical way that the us government can help do this and it can happen right away. i have spent the last year making the case for a national early warning system for heat waves. the concept is very similar to the approach we take to hurricanes, which we have been naming and categorizing for nearly seventy years. heat events should also be categorized to provide guidance for interventions; when an event is given a high enough category, it should receive a name. the arsht rock resilience center is currently working with a team of meteorologists, climatologists, physicians, and heat health specialists to build the methodology for determining how many categories we need (we will likely recommend creating between three and five). rather than depending entirely on meteorology, our approach would also be based on determinations of how a heat event is likely to impact human health and well being. it would rely on a combination of heat intensity measures, including the nairn fawcett excess heat factor and the identification of air masses that have historically contributed to excess deaths during heat waves. a name and category would help both the public and decision makers understand the potential severity of heat waves and, over time, build a culture of awareness and preparation, which would save lives. in the course of living and working in florida for more than thirty years, i came to know well what a category 4 hurricane (with a name, of course) meant and how to prepare for it. when a heat warning comes along, people could likewise take note and plan ahead: stay indoors, run the air conditioning or go to a place that has it, check on elderly relatives and neighbors, drink more water, keep pets inside. would the 32 year old hiker who died of heat induced hyperthermia in 2019 on a trail not far from my home outside washington, dc have ventured out that day if the heat wave we were suffering had been treated with the same urgency as a tropical storm? what about the fifteen plus people, many of them children, who had to be rescued by fire crews on the same trail during another heat wave this month? an early warning system for heat waves could also trigger the release of public funding that allows governments to take action. officials could identify where their most vulnerable citizens live and prioritize those communities for assistance. they could dispatch teams to go door to door to find elderly and other at risk people living in hot apartments with no air conditioning. governments could also mobilize generators during power outages and provide transportation to a cooler place for those most in danger. some communities are deploying these strategies already, but we should make them standard practice. such a system would protect vulnerable workers, too. we would never expect amazon drivers to venture out on their rounds during a category 5 hurricane. why would we expect them to do the same during a category 5 heat wave? this new system would grant confidence, awareness, and leverage to workers who currently lack the power to tell their employers when it’s too hot for them to work safely outside. and it should be just a starting point for a new mindset regarding heat and worker safety. we need a national law, ideally one that expands on the bills recently proposed by house and senate democrats to protect farm workers or provide direct financial assistance to communities for heat resilience projects. the legislation should include heat protection as a new element of workers’ rights. there are many other measures that companies can consider: cooling vests for outdoor workers in certain temperatures, for example, and heat training for managers to help them avoid putting staff at risk. beyond the workplace, there are steps we can take on an individual level. all americans, no matter where they live, should conduct their own personal heat risk assessments. do you have underlying conditions? are you diabetic, obese, or suffering from a heart or respiratory condition? are you over seventy years old? all these factors can make you more susceptible to heat. do you know how to recognize the warning signs of heat exhaustion and heat stroke, and do your friends and family? do you have air conditioning in your home? if not, can you safely get to a cool place with a friend or relative, for example, or at a local cooling center or even a shopping mall? as with everything these days, there’s an app for this. extrema allows you to input key information and then alerts you to your personal risk and recommends a route to a cooler location. there are other affordable ways to decrease the heat exposure of our homes, such as planting trees. the organization american forests has shown that air temperatures in areas with healthy tree canopy are twenty to forty five degrees cooler than temperatures in nearby areas without shade. many local governments have adopt a tree programs. the miami dade county program, with which we partnered in 2020 to give away 8,000 trees and seedlings, will provide up to two trees per year to every single family and duplex homeowner. no room for trees? even adding plants around your house can help. local governments can take on more of the burden by, for instance, adding tree cover on a large scale, especially in urban areas where extreme heat often hits hardest. they can establish green corridors, or walkways for pedestrians under the shade of trees or other cover. they can turn heat radiating concrete and asphalt into green spaces, and build fountains and pop up water features that can be moved as needed to cool the air and provide a place for kids to play. governments must start addressing extreme heat’s hard financial realities as well. people should not be choosing between running air conditioners that will generate energy bills they fear they can’t afford, and putting themselves at risk of dying. in some parts of the country, there are already policies in place that keep utility companies from turning off electricity for non payment during a heat wave. that should be the norm, but there should also be energy assistance programs available to people who need help with keeping their air conditioning units running or installing them in the first place. (running air conditioners to save lives presents its own challenges, since air conditioning is often powered by fossil fuel burning energy, the source of planetary heating. we must simultaneously and hugely accelerate the transition to renewable energy, but that’s another essay.) workers most at risk also need financial relief if they’re experiencing wage loss because of extreme heat. cities, especially, must identify extreme heat as a pervasive and growing risk as many, in fact, already have. we have not built our cities to accommodate the temperatures we’ve brought upon ourselves. the glass, asphalt, steel, concrete, and other materials we use to erect our urban centers are exacerbating the climate driven trend of rising temperatures, in what’s known as the “heat island effect.” in response, communities around the united states and the world are successfully deploying “smart surfaces,” which reflect heat rather than absorbing it. but cities need money from public, private, and philanthropic sources both for long term investments to reduce urban heat and short term preparation and response to extreme heat events. cities should also appoint chief heat officers who can accelerate and coordinate responses to extreme heat while making sure that those residents most vulnerable to it are being cared for. with some support from the arsht rock resilience center, miami dade county mayor daniella levine cava recently announced the first such officer in the united states. we are supporting similar efforts globally: in athens, buenos aires, seville, and freetown. companies, for their part, should be spurred by this study to better understand their exposure to heat risk. worker vulnerabilities have the potential to dramatically interrupt business and supply chains and present companies with both financial and reputational risks. companies whose business strategy and operations are informed by heat risk considerations will reap benefits in short  and long term earnings and performance, while meeting the expectations and values of their employees and customers. as far as the biden administration is concerned, there are immense and immediate opportunities at the national level to protect people, communities, and local economies from heat. the administration, in fact, has already wisely kicked off an interagency heat task force. in november, the united nations climate conference cop26 will present a big window to show and share progress on climate adaptation. here’s my proposed to do list for the administration: establish leadership and accountability on heat: appoint a national chief heat officer a position of influence and power, with access to budget, relevant agency leadership, and the white house to implement a comprehensive, all of government approach to heat. task the nation’s chief heat officer with four priorities: 1. propose a package of legislative protections for workers in all sectors, starting with the most exposed outdoor workers and especially industries that employ a high percentage of black and hispanic workers. indoor warehouse and office workers also need protection, as this study shows. 2. consider heat a natural disaster: work with the federal emergency management agency to further fold heat disaster into its work, along with hazard mitigation programs and grants tailored to extreme heat. 3. collect better data: grant communities access to affordable risk modeling for heat and request that the national institutes of health, the centers for disease control and prevention, the national oceanic and atmospheric administration, the national weather service, and the healthcare industry work together to gather and provide the data we need to make better decisions and investments to protect those most at risk. this report exposes the information gaps that we need to fill to fully understand the impacts of heat. 4. improve warning systems: provide political and financial support to the national oceanic and atmospheric administration and the national weather service to build and launch a categorization and naming system for heat waves. focus in particular on the communities most vulnerable to extreme heat. empower the private sector: send a signal to the market with policies that grow jobs for millions of americans in heat resilient infrastructure, urban forests and canopy management, and new cooling technologies. this can be done, in part, by requiring heat risk data and considerations in the procurement standards for all government purchases and contracts. last week, i was a fly on the virtual wall during a series of focus groups on the subject of extreme heat. one of the participants was a rancher from arizona. he shared that he puts booties on his dogs when it’s so hot that their feet could burn, and often wakes up at 4 a.m. to work while the temperatures are bearable. he described opening the door and being greeted by heat that “is like a punch in the face.” at the end of each session, the participants were asked which natural disaster they thought kills the most people in the united states each year. even among people selected specifically for their recent experience with extreme temperatures, only one person out of thirty correctly said “heat” and it was not the rancher. for me, this only underscored the urgent need for a new and sweeping campaign to raise awareness about extreme heat and inspire immediate action to address it. it’s time to wake up to the nameless, silent threat that’s all around us. kathy baughman mcleod is a senior vice president and the director of the adrienne arsht rockefeller foundation resilience center at the atlantic council, and the chair of the extreme heat resilience alliance. this article was updated on september 7, 2021. report aug 31, 2021 by adrienne arsht   rockefeller foundation resilience center a new report produced by the atlantic council’s adrienne arsht rockefeller foundation resilience center with analysis conducted by vivid economics quantifies the impacts of heat under current and future conditions. apr 30, 2021 the #heatseason campaign will raise awareness around the impacts of extreme heat, drive passion and urgency, reach city decision makers, and provide solutions focused guidance and act as a catalyst for change. © 2025 atlantic councilall rights reserved. if refreshing the page doesn't resolve the issue you could try clearing the sites browser cache.

when news breaks, you need to understand what matters   and what to do about it. at vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. but we can’t do it on our own. we rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. will you support our work and become a vox member today? this year’s unrelenting heat, explained. by li zhou much of the western united states is experiencing record temperatures   reaching the sorts of highs in october that are normally associated with some of the hottest days of summer. palm springs, california, hit a staggering 117 degrees tuesday, setting a new october record for itself, and matching the highest temperature that’s ever been documented in the us in october. other places in california, arizona, and wyoming have also experienced some of their hottest october temperatures ever, with san jose reaching a temperature of 106 degrees, phoenix hitting 113, and cheyenne reaching 85 degrees. all this is part of a larger trend, one with serious consequences: heat can, in and of itself, be dangerous, especially to the elderly, the very young, and those with chronic health concerns. but it can also have cascading effects, from increasing wildfire risk to disrupting harvests. and, because of the effects of climate change, temperatures like those seen across the western us this week could become far more common. “human caused climate change … is loading the weather dice toward more frequent and intense heat waves,” university of pennsylvania climate scientist michael mann told vox. this october heat is largely the result of a phenomenon currently happening in the west known as a “heat dome”   which involves a high pressure system trapping heat closer to the earth’s surface. long term climate change, however, is likely exacerbating the heat dome’s effects. greenhouse gasses that fuel climate change also trap heat, leading to higher temperatures that can make an already hot heat dome even hotter. according to a study from the climate nonprofit climate central, 91 million people in the us experienced 30 or more “risky heat days” this summer, and those were made twice as likely because of climate change. the organization describes “risky heat” days as ones warmer than “90 percent of temperatures observed in a local area over the 1991 2020 period.” climate change has also led to higher temperatures around the world throughout this past year, including a particularly hot summer in states across the us. according to the national oceanic and atmospheric administration (noaa), this was the country’s fourth hottest summer on record, when looking at temperatures from june through august 2024. during those months, the average temperature in the contiguous united states was 73.8 degrees fahrenheit   2.5 degrees above the average from 1991 2020. that was noticeable in multiple places, including phoenix, which experienced more than 100 consecutive days of 100 degree heat or higher this year. globally, the world could also be on track to hit its hottest year on record. in addition to getting warmer, summers are getting longer, with drexel university researchers noting that seasonal temperatures are lasting 30 days longer than they have in the past, meaning well into october for some in the northern hemisphere. that means fall doesn’t bring the same relief from heat it once did. as a september climate central report, which looked at 242 us cities, found, fall temperatures went up 2.5 degrees, on average, between 1970 and 2023. the warmer fall days could have major implications for natural disasters, especially for wildfires in places like southern california, where heat amplifies the risk of potential blazes on drier landscapes that have also seen decades of fire suppression. while wildfire season has typically run from early summer into the fall, it has the potential to go longer as higher temperatures persist. more days with higher temperatures can also translate to increased cases of heat stroke, cardiovascular problems caused by stress on the heart, and respiratory challenges. they can extend, too, the window when people experience seasonal allergies. additionally, warmer falls could affect plant and animal preparations for hibernation, severely shortening the time they usually take to prepare for winter, and delaying processes like changes in foliage and leaf dropping. farmers may increasingly need to shift planting and harvesting schedules for different crops as temperatures continue to fluctuate as well. short of major changes needed to curb human contributions to global warming, this year’s october heat waves aren’t likely to be a fluke. as mann told vox, “the warming will continue until we bring carbon emissions to zero.” understand the world with a daily explainer plus the most compelling stories of the day. a policy wish list, according to water, engineering, and legislative experts. lithium ion battery technology is imperfect, but it’s not going anywhere. 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explore the impacts of the 2024 u.s. heat wave, its links to climate change, and sustainable solutions to protect communities and the environment. the unrelenting heat wave of summer 2024: a nation under strain the summer of 2024 has unleashed a record breaking heat wave across the united states, bringing temperatures that regularly exceed 100°f in many regions. this intense heat wave is not only affecting millions of people but also straining our environment, infrastructure, and daily life in unprecedented ways. from the sweltering cities to the parched farmlands, the relentless heat serves as a clear and urgent reminder of the accelerating impacts of climate change. communities across the nation are grappling with the severe consequences of this extreme weather. rolling blackouts are becoming more frequent as energy grids struggle to meet the skyrocketing demand for air conditioning. water shortages are also emerging as a critical issue, with reservoirs and water supplies dwindling under the pressure of increased consumption and evaporation. these challenges are compounded by the serious health risks posed by extreme heat, particularly for vulnerable populations such as the elderly, children, and those with chronic illnesses. given these escalating threats, it is more important than ever to understand not just the immediate causes and effects of this heat wave, but also the long term strategies needed to adapt to and mitigate the impacts of such extreme weather. by exploring sustainable practices, advocating for stronger climate policies, and fostering community resilience, we can better prepare for the challenges ahead and protect our health, environment, and future. global warming and climate change the heat wave of 2024 is a direct manifestation of the broader and ongoing trend of global warming, a critical aspect of climate change. over the past century, human activities, particularly the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas, have significantly increased the concentration of greenhouse gases (ghgs) in the earth's atmosphere. these gases, including carbon dioxide (co2), methane (ch4), and nitrous oxide (n2o), trap heat from the sun, creating a "greenhouse effect" that warms the planet. as a result, the earth's average temperature has risen by approximately 1.2°c (2.2°f) since the late 19th century, with more pronounced warming in recent decades. this increase in temperature has not only led to a rise in the frequency and intensity of heat waves but has also disrupted weather patterns worldwide. the heat wave of 2024 exemplifies how global warming is pushing weather systems to their extremes, causing longer and more severe periods of heat that challenge our ability to cope. to address these issues, it's crucial to understand that reducing greenhouse gas emissions is essential for mitigating the future risks of heat waves and other climate related disasters. by transitioning to renewable energy sources, increasing energy efficiency, and adopting sustainable practices, we can help slow the pace of global warming and reduce its impact on our lives. one of the primary meteorological drivers of the 2024 heat wave is a persistent high pressure system, commonly referred to as a "heat dome." a heat dome occurs when a high pressure system stalls over a region, causing the air underneath it to become compressed and subsequently warmer. this dome acts like a lid, trapping the hot air and preventing cooler, more temperate air from entering the region. under a heat dome, the sun's rays become more intense, and the ground heats up more quickly, leading to soaring temperatures that can persist for days or weeks. the lack of cloud cover exacerbates the situation, as there is little to no shade to cool the ground, and nighttime temperatures remain uncomfortably high. this prolonged exposure to extreme heat can have severe consequences for public health, agriculture, and infrastructure. in 2024, this high pressure system has been particularly stubborn, leading to extreme temperatures across vast areas of the united states. such events are becoming more common as climate change alters atmospheric circulation patterns, making it more likely for heat domes to form and persist. urban areas are particularly susceptible to the effects of heat waves due to a phenomenon known as the "urban heat island" (uhi) effect. this effect occurs because cities are filled with materials like concrete, asphalt, and steel, which absorb and retain heat more efficiently than natural landscapes such as forests, grasslands, or water bodies. during the day, these materials soak up the sun's energy, and at night, they release it slowly, keeping urban areas significantly warmer than surrounding rural regions. in addition to these heat absorbing materials, the lack of vegetation in cities contributes to the uhi effect. trees and plants cool the air through a process called transpiration, where water is released from leaves into the atmosphere, cooling the surrounding area. in many urban areas, however, green spaces are limited, and the cooling benefits of vegetation are reduced. these factors result in higher temperatures in cities during a heat wave, often by several degrees fahrenheit compared to nearby rural areas. this can lead to increased energy consumption as residents rely on air conditioning to stay cool, putting a strain on the power grid and increasing the risk of outages. moreover, the uhi effect can exacerbate health problems, particularly for vulnerable populations such as the elderly, children, and those with pre existing health conditions. to mitigate the uhi effect, urban planners and policymakers are increasingly looking at solutions such as expanding green spaces, installing cool roofs and pavements that reflect rather than absorb heat, and improving urban design to promote natural ventilation. these strategies can help reduce the temperature difference between urban and rural areas, making cities more resilient to future heat waves. the summer 2024 heat wave has drastically altered daily life across the united states, affecting everything from individual health to essential resources and food security. understanding these impacts is crucial for both immediate response and long term adaptation. extreme heat significantly elevates health risks, particularly for vulnerable groups like the elderly, young children, and those with chronic illnesses. prolonged exposure to high temperatures can lead to serious conditions such as: heat exhaustion: this condition occurs when the body loses too much water and salt through excessive sweating. symptoms include heavy sweating, weakness, dizziness, and nausea. without prompt treatment like moving to a cooler place, drinking water, and resting heat exhaustion can escalate to heatstroke. heatstroke: a more severe and life threatening condition, heatstroke happens when the body’s temperature regulation fails, leading to a dangerously high body temperature (above 103°f or 39.4°c). symptoms include confusion, loss of consciousness, and a rapid, strong pulse. immediate medical attention is essential, as heatstroke can cause permanent organ damage or death. dehydration: the intense heat increases the body’s need for water, making dehydration a common issue. dehydration can lead to headaches, dry skin, and in severe cases, kidney failure. it is essential to drink plenty of fluids, avoid alcohol and caffeine, and consume foods with high water content, such as fruits and vegetables. taking proactive measures to stay cool, such as using fans or air conditioning, wearing loose fitting clothing, and avoiding strenuous activities during the hottest parts of the day, can significantly reduce these risks. the 2024 heat wave has placed an unprecedented strain on energy and water resources, leading to widespread challenges: spike in electricity demand: as temperatures rise, the demand for electricity surges, primarily due to increased use of air conditioning. this demand can overwhelm power grids, leading to rolling blackouts in many regions. such outages not only disrupt daily life but also put lives at risk, especially for those relying on electric powered medical devices or cooling systems. water scarcity: with the heat wave exacerbating already dry conditions, water scarcity has become a critical issue. reservoirs and water supplies are rapidly depleting as the need for hydration, irrigation, and cooling increases. in some areas, restrictions on water use have been implemented, affecting everything from household consumption to agricultural irrigation. communities are encouraged to adopt energy saving practices, such as setting thermostats to higher temperatures, using energy efficient appliances, and turning off unnecessary lights and electronics. on the waterfront, conserving water through shorter showers, fixing leaks, and using drought resistant landscaping can help mitigate the effects of water shortages. the agriculture sector is particularly vulnerable during heat waves, and the summer of 2024 has been no exception. the extreme heat has led to widespread crop failures, threatening both farmers' livelihoods and the nation's food supply: crop damage: high temperatures can cause heat stress in plants, leading to reduced growth, lower yields, and in some cases, complete crop failure. heat waves can also exacerbate drought conditions, further reducing soil moisture and making it difficult for crops to survive. impact on livestock: in addition to crops, livestock are also affected by extreme heat. animals can suffer from heat stress, leading to decreased milk production, lower fertility rates, and in severe cases, death. this not only impacts food production but also has economic consequences for farmers and the agricultural industry. threat to food security: the combination of crop failures and livestock losses contributes to food shortages and higher prices. this situation threatens food security, particularly for low income families who may already be struggling with rising costs. it also highlights the need for more resilient agricultural practices and food systems. to combat these challenges, farmers are exploring sustainable agriculture techniques, such as using drought resistant crop varieties, implementing efficient irrigation systems, and adopting agroforestry practices that provide shade and reduce soil erosion. stay hydrated and keep cool staying hydrated is one of the most important steps you can take during a heat wave. the human body loses more water through sweat in high temperatures, so it’s essential to drink plenty of fluids even if you don't feel thirsty. water is the best choice, but you can also include drinks with electrolytes, especially if you're engaging in any physical activity. in addition to staying hydrated, it's crucial to keep your body cool. during the hottest parts of the day, typically between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., try to stay indoors. if you need to be outside, take frequent breaks in the shade and avoid strenuous activities. use fans, air conditioning, or evaporative coolers to maintain a comfortable indoor temperature. wearing lightweight, loose fitting, and light colored clothing can help reflect sunlight and allow your body to regulate its temperature more effectively. don’t forget to apply sunscreen with at least spf 30, as uv rays can be more intense during heat waves. extreme heat can lead to sudden power outages and other emergencies, making it vital to have a well prepared emergency kit. your kit should include plenty of water, non perishable food items, essential medications, and a battery operated or hand crank fan to help you stay cool if the power goes out. it’s also wise to have a portable battery charger for your phone and other critical devices. stay informed by keeping up with local weather updates and heat advisories through reliable sources like the national weather service. knowing the symptoms of heat related illnesses, such as heat exhaustion and heat stroke, can also be lifesaving. if someone shows signs of these conditions like dizziness, nausea, or confusion seek medical attention immediately. heat waves can be particularly dangerous for vulnerable populations, including the elderly, children, and those with chronic illnesses. take the time to check on your neighbors, especially if they are older adults, live alone, or have limited mobility. simple actions, like ensuring they have enough water and a cool environment, can make a significant difference. community cooling centers are valuable resources during extreme heat. these are public places, such as libraries, community centers, or malls, that offer air conditioned environments where people can find relief. make sure to know the locations of these centers in your area and share this information with those who might need it. additionally, organizing neighborhood check ins or creating a phone tree can help ensure everyone is looked after during a heat wave. implementing green building practices is a key strategy for reducing the urban heat island effect and mitigating the impact of heat waves. these practices include: reflective roofing materials:using reflective or "cool" roofing materials can significantly reduce heat absorption in buildings. these materials reflect more sunlight and absorb less heat, keeping indoor spaces cooler and reducing the need for air conditioning. by lowering the energy demand, reflective roofing contributes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, further combating climate change. urban green spaces:expanding urban green spaces, such as parks, gardens, and green roofs, helps to cool down cities naturally. vegetation not only provides shade but also cools the air through the process of evapotranspiration, where plants release water vapor. urban green spaces also improve air quality, support biodiversity, and offer recreational areas for residents, making cities more livable during extreme heat events. energy efficient building design:designing buildings with energy efficiency in mind, such as incorporating better insulation, energy efficient windows, and natural ventilation, can reduce the reliance on artificial cooling systems. buildings that use less energy help decrease the overall urban heat load, making the environment more resilient to heat waves. transitioning to renewable energy sources is a critical step in mitigating climate change and reducing the frequency and intensity of future heat waves. here's how renewable energy contributes: solar power:solar energy harnesses the sun's power to generate electricity without emitting greenhouse gases. solar panels can be installed on rooftops, in solar farms, or even integrated into building materials, providing a sustainable and reliable source of energy. as solar technology becomes more affordable, it offers a practical solution for reducing dependency on fossil fuels. wind energy:wind turbines convert the kinetic energy of wind into electricity, another clean and renewable energy source. wind energy is especially effective in reducing carbon footprints in regions with consistent wind patterns. by investing in wind farms and offshore wind projects, communities can diversify their energy sources and reduce their impact on the environment. energy storage solutions:to maximize the benefits of renewable energy, integrating energy storage solutions like batteries is essential. these systems store excess energy generated during peak production times (e.g., sunny or windy days) and release it when demand is high, ensuring a stable and continuous power supply. energy storage enhances the reliability of renewable energy systems, making them more viable for widespread adoption. water conservation is increasingly vital as heat waves and drought conditions strain water supplies. sustainable water management practices can help communities adapt to these challenges: drought resistant landscaping:adopting drought resistant plants in landscaping is an effective way to reduce water consumption. native plants, which are naturally adapted to the local climate, require less water and are more resilient to extreme heat. xeriscaping, a landscaping method that emphasizes the use of drought tolerant plants and efficient irrigation techniques, can further conserve water while maintaining aesthetic appeal. fixing leaks:small leaks in plumbing systems can lead to significant water waste over time. regularly inspecting and repairing leaks in faucets, pipes, and irrigation systems can prevent water loss and lower water bills. even minor repairs can make a substantial difference in overall water conservation efforts, particularly during prolonged heat waves. low flow fixtures:installing low flow fixtures, such as showerheads, faucets, and toilets, is an easy and cost effective way to reduce water usage. these fixtures are designed to use less water while maintaining performance, helping households and businesses conserve water without sacrificing convenience. widespread adoption of low flow technologies can contribute to substantial water savings at the community level. by embracing these long term sustainable solutions, communities can better prepare for and mitigate the effects of future heat waves. green building practices, renewable energy, and water conservation not only help reduce the immediate impact of extreme heat but also contribute to the broader fight against climate change. these strategies are essential for creating more resilient, sustainable environments that can withstand the challenges posed by a warming world. regulatory measures governments at local, state, and federal levels play a critical role in combating the impacts of heat waves through effective policy making. one of the most urgent needs is the implementation of stricter regulations on greenhouse gas emissions. these emissions are a major driver of climate change, which is directly linked to the increasing frequency and intensity of heat waves. by enforcing emission reduction targets and transitioning to cleaner energy sources such as wind, solar, and hydroelectric power, governments can significantly reduce the impact of future heat waves. in addition to energy related policies, governments should also focus on sustainable agriculture and water conservation. for instance, encouraging farmers to adopt practices such as crop rotation, cover cropping, and reduced tillage can help maintain soil health and reduce the agricultural sector's carbon footprint. similarly, policies that promote the use of water efficient technologies and practices in agriculture and urban areas can help mitigate the strain on water resources during extreme heat. to effectively mitigate the effects of heat waves, substantial investments in infrastructure are essential. one key area is the modernization and resilience of the power grid. during heat waves, the demand for electricity spikes, often leading to blackouts as aging infrastructure struggles to cope. upgrading the grid to handle higher loads and incorporating smart grid technologies can improve reliability and reduce the risk of outages. water management systems also need significant improvements to cope with the challenges posed by extreme heat. this includes expanding and upgrading water storage facilities, implementing advanced irrigation systems, and developing desalination plants in regions where freshwater resources are scarce. additionally, urban planning should prioritize the creation of green spaces, such as parks and urban forests, which can help cool cities by reducing the urban heat island effect. public awareness is a cornerstone of effective heat wave mitigation. governments must launch comprehensive public education campaigns that inform citizens about the dangers of heat waves and the steps they can take to protect themselves. these campaigns should be accessible to all segments of the population, including vulnerable groups such as the elderly, low income families, and non english speakers. such campaigns can include tips on staying cool, recognizing the signs of heat related illnesses, and making homes more heat resilient. they can also promote community initiatives like the establishment of cooling centers in neighborhoods lacking adequate air conditioning. moreover, by raising awareness about the connection between heat waves and climate change, these campaigns can encourage more people to adopt sustainable lifestyles, such as reducing energy consumption, using public transportation, and supporting policies aimed at environmental protection. government action is crucial in mitigating the devastating effects of heat waves. through regulatory measures that curb greenhouse gas emissions, investments in resilient infrastructure, and public awareness campaigns that educate and empower citizens, governments can help create a more sustainable and resilient future. these efforts not only protect communities during extreme heat events but also contribute to the broader fight against climate change, ensuring a safer and healthier environment for generations to come. wildfires and air quality heat waves significantly increase the risk of wildfires, particularly in regions already prone to dry conditions. when temperatures soar, vegetation becomes parched, turning forests and grasslands into tinderboxes ready to ignite. wildfires not only devastate ecosystems, wiping out vast areas of forest and wildlife habitats, but they also have a profound impact on air quality. the smoke from wildfires is laden with fine particulate matter (pm2.5) and harmful chemicals, which can travel long distances, affecting air quality far beyond the immediate fire zone. exposure to wildfire smoke can exacerbate respiratory conditions such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd), leading to an increase in hospital visits and health complications. the health risks extend to the general population as well, with even healthy individuals experiencing symptoms such as throat irritation, coughing, and shortness of breath. moreover, the presence of wildfire smoke in the atmosphere can reduce visibility, affect transportation, and disrupt daily life. to mitigate the impact of wildfires on air quality, it's crucial to adopt proactive measures such as controlled burns, forest management, and public education on fire prevention. communities can also invest in air quality monitoring systems and promote the use of air purifiers and masks during periods of poor air quality. extreme heat poses a severe threat to wildlife, as it disrupts natural habitats and forces animals to adapt quickly or face peril. terrestrial animals may struggle to find water and shade, leading to increased mortality rates, especially among species that are less mobile or unable to migrate to cooler areas. the loss of vegetation due to heat stress further exacerbates the situation, as it reduces food availability and shelter for many species. aquatic ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to heat waves. rising water temperatures can lead to the depletion of dissolved oxygen, a critical element for the survival of fish and other aquatic organisms. as oxygen levels drop, fish may suffocate, leading to large scale die offs. coral reefs, already under threat from ocean acidification and pollution, can experience mass bleaching events during heat waves, further endangering marine biodiversity. additionally, changes in migration patterns can occur as animals seek out cooler environments. this can lead to overcrowding in certain areas, increased competition for resources, and disruption of established ecosystems. conservation efforts need to focus on creating wildlife corridors, protecting critical habitats, and ensuring that ecosystems are resilient to the impacts of extreme heat. prolonged heat waves put an immense strain on natural resources, particularly water and energy. as temperatures rise, the demand for water increases for drinking, irrigation, and cooling purposes. in many regions, water sources such as rivers, lakes, and reservoirs are already under stress from overuse and climate change. during heat waves, these sources can dry up, leading to water shortages that affect both human populations and the environment. the energy sector is also heavily impacted by heat waves. the increased use of air conditioning and cooling systems leads to a surge in electricity demand, which can overload power grids and result in blackouts. moreover, power plants, especially those that rely on water for cooling, may face operational challenges during extreme heat, further straining the energy supply. the competition for these scarce resources can lead to conflicts, particularly in areas where water and energy are already limited. to address these challenges, it's essential to adopt sustainable practices such as water conservation, investment in renewable energy, and the development of technologies that improve resource efficiency. public awareness campaigns can also play a vital role in encouraging individuals and communities to reduce their water and energy consumption during heat waves. by understanding and addressing the environmental impacts of heat waves, we can better prepare for the challenges they present and work towards a more sustainable and resilient future. predictions and projections the future of heat waves in the united states is alarming, as climate scientists consistently warn of an increase in their frequency, duration, and intensity. these projections are based on extensive research and data analysis, indicating that as global temperatures continue to rise, heat waves will not only become more common but also more severe. the implications of this trend are profound, affecting everything from public health to the economy, agriculture, and natural ecosystems. the increase in heat waves underscores the urgent need for comprehensive climate action, as these extreme weather events are clear indicators of the accelerating impacts of climate change. to effectively address this challenge, it's essential to understand the contributing factors. the primary driver behind the intensifying heat waves is the rising concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, primarily from the burning of fossil fuels. these gases trap heat, leading to global warming and, consequently, more extreme weather patterns. without significant reductions in emissions and a shift toward sustainable practices, the situation is expected to worsen, placing unprecedented strain on communities and ecosystems across the nation. addressing the future threat of heat waves requires not just reactive measures but proactive and innovative solutions. one such innovation is the development of smart grids, which allow for more efficient and reliable management of energy resources. smart grids can adapt to increased electricity demand during heat waves, reducing the likelihood of power outages that can exacerbate the dangers of extreme heat. additionally, they enable the integration of renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind power, which are crucial for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating climate change. advanced weather forecasting is another critical tool in the fight against heat waves. improved forecasting models can provide more accurate and timely predictions of extreme weather events, allowing communities to prepare and respond more effectively. these models leverage cutting edge technology, including machine learning and big data analytics, to predict not just the onset of heat waves but also their potential duration and impact. this information is vital for emergency services, public health officials, and the general public to take necessary precautions. furthermore, climate resilient crops are being developed to withstand the harsh conditions brought about by prolonged heat waves. these crops are engineered or selectively bred to thrive in higher temperatures and with less water, ensuring food security even as climate change disrupts traditional agricultural practices. by investing in such innovations, the agricultural sector can adapt to the changing climate, reducing the risk of crop failures and food shortages. while technological advancements are crucial, individual and collective actions are equally important in addressing the challenges posed by future heat waves. personal responsibility begins with making conscious choices that reduce our environmental footprint. simple actions such as reducing energy consumption, using public transportation, and supporting sustainable products can collectively make a significant impact. for example, choosing energy efficient appliances, reducing air conditioning usage, and opting for renewable energy sources in our homes can help lower greenhouse gas emissions. however, the scale of the climate crisis requires more than just individual efforts; it demands collective action at the community, national, and global levels. communities can organize local initiatives, such as tree planting campaigns, to increase green cover and reduce urban heat islands. local governments can implement policies that promote sustainable urban planning, such as the construction of green buildings and the preservation of natural landscapes. nationally, governments must prioritize climate action by enacting and enforcing environmental regulations, investing in renewable energy, and supporting research into climate adaptation strategies. this includes policies that incentivize businesses to reduce their carbon footprints and invest in sustainable practices. on a global scale, international cooperation is essential to address climate change, as heat waves and other extreme weather events do not respect national borders. countries must work together to achieve the goals set out in international 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an official website of the united states government here’s how you know official websites use .gova .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the united states. secure .gov websites use httpsa lock ( lock locked padlock icon ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. the 2013 2016 marine heat wave known as “the blob” warmed a vast expanse of surface waters across the northeastern pacific, disrupting west coast marine ecosystems, depressing salmon returns, and damaging commercial fisheries. it also prompted a wave of research on extreme warming of ocean surface waters. but, as new noaa research shows, marine heat waves also happen deep underwater. in a paper published in the journal nature communications, a team led by noaa researchers used a combination of observations and computer models to generate the first broad assessment of bottom marine heat waves in the productive continental shelf waters surrounding north america. “researchers have been investigating marine heat waves at the sea surface for over a decade now,” said lead author dillon amaya, a research scientist with noaa’s physical science laboratory. “this is the first time we’ve been able to really dive deeper and assess how these extreme events unfold along shallow seafloors.” marine heat waves dramatically impact the health of ocean ecosystems around the globe, disrupting the productivity and distribution of organisms as small as plankton and as large as whales. as a result, there has been a considerable effort to study, track and predict the timing, intensity, duration, and physical drivers of these events. most of that research has focused on temperature extremes at the ocean’s surface, for which there are many more high quality observations taken by satellites, ships, and buoys. sea surface temperatures can also be indicators for many physical and biochemical ocean characteristics of sensitive marine ecosystems, making analyses more straightforward. about 90% of the excess heat from global warming has been absorbed by the ocean, which has warmed by about 0.88˚c from the period 1850 1900 to 2011 2020. marine heatwaves have become about 50% more frequent over the past decade. in recent years, scientists have increased efforts to investigate marine heat waves throughout the water column using the limited data available. but previous research didn’t target temperature extremes on the ocean bottom along continental shelves, which provide critical habitat for important commercial species like lobsters, scallops, crabs, flounder, cod and other groundfish. due to the relative scarcity of bottom water temperature datasets, the scientists used a data product called “reanalysis” to conduct the assessment, which starts with available observations and employs computer models that simulate ocean currents and the influence of the atmosphere to “fill in the blanks.” using a similar technique, noaa scientists have been able to reconstruct global weather back to the early 19th century. while ocean reanalyses have been around for a long time, they have only recently become skillful enough and have high enough resolution to examine ocean features, including bottom temperatures, near the coast. the research team, from noaa, cires, and ncar, found that on the continental shelves around north america, bottom marine heat waves tend to persist longer than their surface counterparts, and can have larger warming signals than the overlying surface waters. bottom and surface marine heat waves can occur simultaneously in the same location, especially in shallower regions where surface and bottom waters mingle. but bottom marine heat waves can also occur with little or no evidence of warming at the surface, which has important implications for the management of commercially important fisheries. “that means it can be happening without managers realizing it until the impacts start to show,” said amaya. in 2015, a combination of harmful algal blooms and loss of kelp forest habitat off the west coast of the united states both caused by the blob   led to closures of shellfisheries that cost the economy in excess of $185 million, according to a 2021 study. the commercial tri state dungeness crab fishery recorded a loss of $97.5 million, affecting both tribal and nontribal fisheries. washington and californian coastal communities lost a combined $84 million in tourist spending due to the closure of recreational razor clam and abalone fisheries. in 2021, a groundfish survey published by noaa fisheries indicated that gulf of alaska cod had plummeted during the blob, experiencing a 71% decline in abundance between 2015 and 2017. on the other hand, young groundfish and other marine creatures in the northern california current system thrived under the unprecedented ocean conditions, a 2019 paper by oregon state university and noaa fisheries researchers found. unusually warm bottom water temperatures have also been linked to the expansion of invasive lionfish along the southeast u.s., coral bleaching and subsequent declines of reef fish, changes in survival rates of young atlantic cod, and the disappearance of near shore lobster populations in southern new england. the authors say it will be important to maintain existing continental shelf monitoring systems and to develop new real time monitoring capabilities to alert marine resource managers to bottom warming conditions. “we know that early recognition of marine heat waves is needed for proactive management of the coastal ocean,” said co author michael jacox, a research oceanographer who splits his time between noaa’s southwest fisheries science center and the physical sciences laboratory. “now it’s clear that we need to pay closer attention to the ocean bottom, where some of the most valuable species live and can experience heat waves quite different from those on the surface.” for 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get focused newsletters especially designed to be concise and easy to digest the world is grappling with a host of pressing environmental challenges that demand immediate attention and action. from climate change induced disasters to biodiversity loss and plastic pollution, the 15 biggest environmental problems of 2025 paint a stark picture of the urgent need for climate change mitigation and adaptation.   after several consecutive months of record breaking temperatures, the hottest ever summer, and the hottest day on record, 2024 was recently confirmed as the hottest year in history, with the global average temperature 0.12c above 2023, the previous warmest calendar year on record. the global average temperatures was 1.60c above pre industrial levels, making it also the first calendar year that has reached more than 1.5c above the pre industrial level. this wraps up a decade of unprecedented heat globally fuelled by human activities, with each of the past ten years (2015 2024) being one of the ten warmest years on record. what’s more, greenhouse gas (ghg) concentrations have never been so high. atmospheric concentrations of all three major planet warming gases   carbon dioxide (co2), methane, and nitrous oxide   reached new highs in 2023, committing the planet to rising temperatures for many years to come. this is undoubtedly one of the biggest environmental problems of our lifetime: as greenhouse gas emissions blanket the earth, they trap the sun’s heat, leading to global warming. the burning of coal, natural gas, and oil for electricity and heat is the single largest source of global ghg emissions. these are the primary drivers of global warming as they trap heat in the atmosphere and raising earth’s surface temperature. increased emissions of greenhouse gases have led to a rapid and steady increase in global temperatures, which in turn is causing catastrophic events all over the world   from australia and the us experiencing some of the most devastating bushfire seasons ever recorded, locusts swarming across parts of africa, the middle east and asia, decimating crops, and a heatwave in antarctica that saw temperatures rise above 20c for the first time. scientists are constantly warning that the planet has crossed a series of tipping points that could have catastrophic consequences, such as advancing permafrost melt in arctic regions, the greenland ice sheet melting at an unprecedented rate, accelerating sixth mass extinction, and increasing deforestation in the amazon rainforest, just to name a few. the climate crisis is causing tropical storms and other weather events such as hurricanes, heatwaves and flooding to be more intense and frequent than seen before. however, even if all greenhouse gas emissions were halted immediately, global temperatures would continue to rise in the coming years. that is why it is absolutely imperative that we start now to drastically reduce emissions, invest in renewable energy sources, and phase our fossil fuels as fast as possible. you might also like: the tipping points of climate change: how will our world change? according to economists like nicholas stern, the climate crisis is a result of multiple market failures. for decade, economists and environmentalists have urged policymakers to increase the price of activities that emit greenhouse gases. this can be done, for example, through carbon taxes, which will stimulate innovations in low carbon technologies. to cut emissions quickly and effectively enough, governments must not only massively increase funding for green innovation to bring down the costs of low carbon energy sources but they also need to adopt a range of other policies that address each of the other market failures. a national carbon tax is currently implemented in 27 countries around the world, including various countries in the eu, canada, singapore, japan, ukraine and argentina. however, according to the 2019 oecd tax energy use report, current tax structures are not adequately aligned with the pollution profile of energy sources. for example, the oecd suggests that carbon taxes are not harsh enough on coal production, although it has proved to be effective for the electricity industry. a carbon tax has been effectively implemented in sweden; the carbon tax is us$127 per tonne and has reduced emissions by 25% since 1995, while its economy has expanded 75% in the same time period. members of the un are not obligated to adhere to suggestions or recommendations put forth by the organization. for instance, the paris agreement, a landmark accord under the united nations framework convention on climate change (unfccc), outlines the necessity for countries to make substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to limit global temperature rise to below 2c by 2100, with a preferable target of 1.5c. participation in the agreement is voluntary, and there are typically no tangible consequences for non compliance. a third of the food intended for human consumption   around 1.3 billion tons   is wasted or lost. this is enough to feed 3 billion people. food waste and loss account for approximately one quarter of greenhouse gas emissions annually; if it was a country, food waste would be the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases, behind china and the us. food waste and loss occur at different stages in developing and developed countries; in developing countries, 40% of food waste occurs at the post harvest and processing levels, while in developed countries, 40% of food waste occurs at the retail and consumer levels. at the retail level, a shocking amount of food is wasted because of aesthetic reasons; in fact, in the us, more than 50% of all produce thrown away in the us is done so because it is deemed to be “too ugly” to be sold to consumers  this amounts to about 60 million tons of fruits and vegetables. you might also like: how does food waste affect the environment? the past 50 years have seen a rapid growth of human consumption, population, global trade and urbanisation, resulting in humanity using more of the earth’s resources than it can replenish naturally. a 2020 wwf report found that the population sizes of mammals, fish, birds, reptiles and amphibians have experienced a decline of an average of 68% between 1970 and 2016. the report attributes this biodiversity loss to a variety of factors but mainly land use change, particularly the conversion of habitats, like forests, grasslands and mangroves, into agricultural systems. animals such as pangolins, sharks and seahorses are significantly affected by the illegal wildlife trade, and pangolins are critically endangered because of it. more broadly, a 2021 analysis has found that the sixth mass extinction of wildlife on earth is accelerating. more than 500 species of land animals are on the brink of extinction and are likely to be lost within 20 years; the same number were lost over the whole of the last century. the scientists say that without the human destruction of nature, this rate of loss would have taken thousands of years. in antarctica, climate change triggered melting of sea ice is taking a heavy toll on emperor penguins and could wipe out entire populations by as early as 2100, according to 2023 research. you might also like: the remarkable benefits of biodiversity in 1950, the world produced more than 2 million tons of plastic per year. by 2015, this annual production swelled to 419 million tons and exacerbating plastic waste in the environment. currently, roughly 14 million tons of plastic make their way into the oceans every year, harming wildlife habitats and the animals that live in them. research found that if no action is taken, the plastic crisis will grow to 29 million metric tons per year by 2040. if we include microplastics into this, the cumulative amount of plastic in the ocean could reach 600 million tons by 2040. some 91% of all plastic that has ever been made is not recycled, making it only one of the biggest environmental problems of our lifetime. considering that plastic takes 400 years to decompose, it will be many generations until it ceases to exist. there is no telling what the irreversible effects of plastic pollution will have on the environment in the long run. to address the issue, the un in 2022 initiated a process to create a legally binding international treaty aimed at curbing plastic pollution, culminating in a meeting in busan, south korea in november 2024. the fifth round of negotiations was meant to finalize a treaty framework that would address not only waste management but also the production and design of plastics. however, the talks ended without agreement. “it is clear there is persisting divergence in critical areas and more time is needed for these areas to be addressed,” unep executive director inger andersen said on the last day of the meeting as she adjourned negotiations to 2025. you might also like: why the world urgently needs a global plastic treaty every hour, forests the size of 300 football fields are cut down. by the year 2030, the planet might have only 10% of its forests; if deforestation is not stopped, they could all be gone in less than a century. the three countries experiencing the highest levels of deforestation are brazil, the democratic republic of congo and indonesia. the amazon, the world’s largest rainforest   spanning 6.9 million square kilometres (2.72 million square miles) and covering around 40% of the south american continent   is also one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems and is home to about three million species of plants and animals. despite efforts to protect forest land, legal deforestation is still rampant, and about one third of global tropical deforestation occurs in brazil’s amazon forest, amounting to 1.5 million hectares each year. agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation, another one of the biggest environmental problems appearing on this list. land is cleared to raise livestock or to plant other crops that are sold, such as sugar cane and palm oil. besides for carbon sequestration, forests help to prevent soil erosion, because the tree roots bind the soil and prevent it from washing away, which also prevents landslides. you might also like: 10 deforestation facts you should know about one of the biggest environmental problems today is outdoor air pollution. according to the world health organization (who), an estimated 4.2 to 7 million people die from air pollution worldwide every year and nine out of ten people breathe air that contains high levels of pollutants. in africa, 258,000 people died as a result of outdoor air pollution in 2017, up from 164,000 in 1990, according to unicef. causes of air pollution mostly comes from industrial sources and motor vehicles, as well as emissions from burning biomass and poor air quality due to dust storms. according to a 2023 study, air pollution in south asia   one of the most polluted areas in the world   cuts life expectancy by about five years. the study blames a series of factors, including a lack of adequate infrastructure and funding for the high levels of pollution in some countries. most countries in asia and africa, which together contribute about 92.7% of life years lost globally due to air pollution, lack key air quality standards needed to develop adequate policies. moreover, just 6.8% and 3.7% of governments in the two continents, respectively, provide their citizens with fully open air quality data. in europe, a recent report by the european environment agency (eea) showed that more than half a million people living in eu countries died from health issues directly linked to toxic pollutants exposure in 2021. the climate crisis is warming the arctic more than twice as fast as anywhere else on the planet. today, sea levels are rising more than twice as quickly as they did for most of the 20th century as a result of increasing temperatures on earth. seas are now rising an average of 3.2 mm per year globally and they will continue to grow up to about 0.7 metres by the end of this century. in the arctic, the greenland ice sheet poses the greatest risk for sea levels because melting land ice is the main cause of rising sea levels. representing one the biggest of the environmental problems our planet faces today, this is made all the more concerning considering that temperatures during the 2020 summer triggered the loss of 60 billion tons of ice from greenland, enough to raise global sea levels by 2.2mm in just two months. according to satellite data, the greenland ice sheet lost a record amount of ice in 2019: an average of a million tons per minute throughout the year. if the entire greenland ice sheet melts, sea level would rise by six metres. meanwhile, the antarctic continent contributes about 1 millimetre per year to sea level rise, which is one third of the annual global increase. according to 2023 data, the continent has lost approximately 7.5 trillion tons of ice since 1997. additionally, the last fully intact ice shelf in canada in the arctic recently collapsed, having lost about 80 square kilometres   or 40%   of its area over a two day period in late july, according to the canadian ice service. sea level rise will have a devastating impact on those living in coastal regions: according to research and advocacy group climate central, sea level rise this century could flood coastal areas that are now home to 340 million to 480 million people, forcing them to migrate to safer areas and contributing to overpopulation and strain of resources in the areas they migrate to. bangkok (thailand), ho chi minh city (vietnam), manila (philippines), and dubai (united arab emirates) are among the cities most at risk of sea level rise and flooding. you might also like: two thirds of world’s glaciers set to disappear by 2100 under current global warming scenario global temperature rise has not only affected the surface but it is also the main cause of ocean acidification. our oceans absorb about 30% of carbon dioxide that is released into the earth’s atmosphere. as higher concentrations of carbon emissions are released thanks to human activities such as burning fossil fuels as well as effects of global climate change such as increased rates of wildfires, so do the amount of carbon dioxide that is absorbed back into the sea. the smallest change in the acidity scale can have a significant impact on the acidity of the ocean. ocean acidification has devastating impacts on marine ecosystems and species, its food webs, and provoke irreversible changes in habitat quality. once ph levels reach too low, marine organisms such as oysters, their shells and skeleton could even start to dissolve. however, one of the biggest environmental problems from ocean acidification is coral bleaching and subsequent coral reef loss. this phenomenon occurs when rising ocean temperatures disrupt the symbiotic relationship between the reefs and algae that lives within it, driving away the algae and causing coral reefs to lose their natural vibrant colours. some scientists have estimated coral reefs are at risk of being completely wiped by 2050. higher acidity in the ocean would obstruct coral reef systems’ ability to rebuild their exoskeletons and recover from these coral bleaching events. you might also like: global coral bleaching event now largest on record, noaa says some studies have also found that ocean acidification can be linked as one of the effects of plastic pollution in the ocean. the accumulating bacteria and microorganisms derived from plastic garbage dumped in the ocean to damage marine ecosystems and contribute towards coral bleaching. studies have shown that the global food system is responsible for up to one third of all human caused greenhouse gas emissions, of which 30% comes from livestock and fisheries. crop production releases greenhouse gases such as nitrous oxide through the use of fertilisers. 60% of the world’s agricultural area is dedicated to cattle ranching, although it only makes up 24% of global meat consumption. agriculture not only covers a vast amount of land but it also consumes a vast amount of freshwater, another one of the biggest environmental problems on this list. arable lands and grazing pastures cover one third of earth’s land surfaces and together, they consume three quarters of the world’s limited freshwater resources. scientists and environmentalists have continuously warned that we need to rethink our current food system; switching to more sustainable farming methods and a more plant based oriented diet would dramatically reduce the carbon footprint of the conventional agriculture industry. you might also like: can we feed the world without destroying it? organic matter is a crucial component of soil as it allows it to absorb carbon from the atmosphere. plants absorb co2 from the air naturally and effectively through photosynthesis and part of this carbon is stored in the soil as soil organic carbon (soc). healthy soil has a minimum of 3 6% organic matter. however, almost everywhere in the world, the content is much lower than that. according to the united nations, about 40% of the planet’s soil is degraded. soil degradation refers to the loss of organic matter, changes in its structural condition and/or decline in soil fertility and it is often the result of human activities, such as traditional farming practices including the use of toxic chemicals and pollutants. if business as usual continued through 2050, experts project additional degradation of an area almost the size of south america. but there is more to it. if we do not change our reckless practices and step up to preserve soil health, food security for billions of people around the world will be irreversibly compromised, with an estimated 40% less food expected to be produced in 20 years’ time despite the world’s population projected to reach 9.3 billion people. rising temperatures and unsustainable farming practices have resulted in increasing water and food insecurity. globally, more than 68 billion tonnes of top soil is eroded every year at a rate 100 times faster than it can naturally be replenished. laden with biocides and fertiliser, the soil ends up in waterways where it contaminates drinking water and protected areas downstream. furthermore, exposed and lifeless soil is more vulnerable to wind and water erosion due to lack of root and mycelium systems that hold it together. a key contributor to soil erosion is over tilling: although it increases productivity in the short term by mixing in surface nutrients (e.g. fertiliser), tilling is physically destructive to the soil’s structure and in the long term leads to soil compaction, loss of fertility and surface crust formation that worsens topsoil erosion. with the global population expected to reach 9 billion people by mid century, the food and agriculture organization of the united nations (fao) projects that global food demand may increase by 70% by 2050. around the world, more than 820 million people do not get enough to eat. as un secretary general antónio guterres remarked at a high level virtual meeting in 2020, “unless immediate action is taken, it is increasingly clear that there is an impending global food security emergency that could have long term impacts on hundreds of millions of adults and children.” guterres urged for countries to rethink their food systems and encouraged more sustainable farming practices. in terms of water security, only 3% of the world’s water is freshwater, and two thirds of that is tucked away in frozen glaciers or otherwise unavailable for our use. as a result, some 1.1 billion people worldwide lack access to water, and a total of 2.7 billion find water scarce for at least one month of the year. by 2025, two thirds of the world’s population may face water shortages. you might also like: why we should care about global food security the fashion industry accounts for 10% of global carbon emissions, which makes it one of the biggest environmental problems of our time. fashion alone produces more greenhouse gas emissions than both the aviation and shipping sectors combined, and nearly 20% of global wastewater, or around 93 billion cubic metres from textile dyeing, according to the un environment programme. what’s more, the world generates an estimated 92 million tonnes of textiles waste every year, a number that is expected to soar up to 134 million tonnes a year by 2030. discarded clothing and textile waste, most of which is non biodegradable, ends up in landfills, while microplastics from clothing materials such as polyester, nylon, polyamide, acrylic and other synthetic materials is leeched into soil and nearby water sources. monumental amounts of clothing textile are also dumped in developing countries, as seen in chile’s atacama desert. millions of tons of clothes arrive annually from europe, asia, and the americas. in 2023, 46 million tons of discarded clothes were dumped and left to rotten there, according to chilean customs statistics. this rapidly growing issue is only exacerbated by the ever expanding fast fashion business model, in which companies relies on cheap and speedy production of low quality clothing to meet the latest and newest trends. while the united nations fashion industry charter for climate action sees signatory fashion and textile companies commit to achieving net zero emission by 2050, a majority of businesses around the world have yet to address their roles in climate change. you might also like: fast fashion and its environmental impact over three billion people around the world rely on fish as their primary source of protein. about 12% of the world relies upon fisheries in some form or another, with 90% of these being small scale fishermen   think a small crew in a boat, not a ship, using small nets or even rods and reels and lures not too different from the kind you probably use. of the 18.9 million fishermen in the world, 90% of them fall under the latter category. most people consume approximately twice as much food as they did 50 years ago and there are four times as many people on earth as there were at the close of the 1960s. this is one driver of the 30% of commercially fished waters being classified as being “overfished.” this means that the stock of available fishing waters is being depleted faster than it can be replaced. overfishing comes with detrimental effects on the environment, including increased algae in the water, destruction of fishing communities, ocean littering as well as extremely high rates of biodiversity loss. as part of the united nations’ sustainable development goal number 14 (sdg 14), the un and fao are working towards maintaining the proportion of fish stocks within biologically sustainable levels. this, however, requires much stricter regulations of the world’s oceans than the ones already in place. in july 2022, the world trade organization banned fishing subsidies to reduce global overfishing in a historic deal. indeed, subsidies for fuel, fishing gear, and building new vessels, only incentivise overfishing and represent thus a huge problem. you might also like: 7 solutions to overfishing we need right now cobalt is quickly becoming the defining example of the mineral conundrum at the heart of the renewable energy transition. as a key component of battery materials that power electric vehicles (evs), cobalt is facing a sustained surge in demand as decarbonisation efforts progress. the world’s largest cobalt supplier is the democratic republic of congo (drc), where it is estimated that up to a fifth of the production is produced through artisanal miners. cobalt mining, however, is associated with dangerous workers’ exploitation and other serious environmental and social issues. southern regions of the drc are not only home to cobalt and copper but also large amounts of uranium. in mining regions, scientists have made note of high radioactivity levels. in addition, mineral mining, similar to other industrial mining efforts, often produces pollution that leaches into neighbouring rivers and water sources. dust from pulverised rock is known to cause breathing problems for local communities as well. featured image by earth.org photographer roy mangersnes how can i contribute to a more sustainable planet? for more actionable steps, visit our ‘what can i do?‘ page. our non profit newsroom provides climate coverage free of charge and advertising. your one off or monthly donations play a crucial role in supporting our operations, expanding our reach, and maintaining our editorial independence. about eo | mission statement | impact & reach | write for us hand picked stories weekly or monthly. we promise, no spam! donate

every print subscription comes with full digital access the temperature spikes can cause trouble for fish, plants and water quality of the rivers analyzed in a new study, the rogue river (shown) near agness, ore., has had the greatest increase in heat wave frequency since 1996. this extreme heat could harm the many salmon relying on the river for survival. christiannafzger/istock/getty images plus by jude coleman october 20, 2022 at 6:00 am u.s. rivers are getting into hot water. the frequency of river and stream heat waves is on the rise, a new analysis shows. like marine heat waves, riverine heat waves occur when water temperatures creep above their typical range for five or more days (sn: 2/1/22). using 26 years of united states geological survey data, researchers compiled daily temperatures for 70 sites in rivers and streams across the united states, and then calculated how many days each site experienced a heat wave per year. from 1996 to 2021, the annual average number of heat wave days per river climbed from 11 to 25, the team reports october 3 in limnology and oceanography letters. the study is the first assessment of heat waves in rivers across the country, says spencer tassone, an ecosystem ecologist at the university of virginia in charlottesville. he and his colleagues tallied nearly 4,000 heat wave events   jumping from 82 in 1996 to 198 in 2021   and amounting to over 35,000 heat wave days. the researchers found that the frequency of extreme heat increased at sites above reservoirs and in free flowing conditions but not below reservoirs   possibly because dams release cooler water downstream. most heat waves with temperatures the highest above typical ranges occurred outside of summer months between december and april, pointing to warmer wintertime conditions, tassone says. human caused global warming plays a role in riverine heat waves, with heat waves partially tracking air temperatures   but other factors are probably also driving the trend. for example, less precipitation and lower water volume in rivers mean waterways warm up easier, the study says. “these very short, extreme changes in water temperature can quickly push organisms past their thermal tolerance,” tassone says. compared with a gradual increase in temperature, sudden heat waves can have a greater impact on river dwelling plants and animals, he says. fish like salmon and trout are particularly sensitive to heat waves because the animals rely on cold water to get enough oxygen, regulate their body temperature and spawn correctly. there are chemical consequences to the heat as well, says hydrologist sujay kaushal of the university of maryland in college park who was not involved with the study. higher temperatures can speed up chemical reactions that contaminate water, in some cases contributing to toxic algal blooms (sn: 2/7/18). the research can be used as a springboard to help mitigate heat waves in the future, kaushal says, such as by increasing shade cover from trees or managing stormwater. in some rivers, beaver dams show promise for reducing water temperatures (sn: 8/9/22). “you can actually do something about this.” questions or comments on this article? e mail us at feedback@sciencenews.org | reprints faq a version of this article appears in the november 19, 2022 issue of science news. s. tassone et al. increasing heatwave frequency in streams and rivers of the united states. limnology and oceanography letters. published online october 3, 2022. doi: 10.1002/lol2.10284. we are at a critical time and supporting climate journalism is more important than ever. science news and our parent organization, the society for science, need your help to strengthen environmental literacy and ensure that our response to climate change is informed by science. science news was founded in 1921 as an independent, nonprofit source of accurate information on the latest news of science, medicine and technology. today, our mission remains the same: to empower people to evaluate the news and the world around them. it is published by the society for science, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) membership organization dedicated to public engagement in scientific research and education (ein 53 0196483). © society for science & the public 2000 2025. all rights reserved.

“firefighters were working in extreme temperatures across the u.s. west and struggling to contain wildfires, the largest burning in california and oregon, as another heat wave baked the region, straining power grids. the largest wildfire of the year in california   the beckwourth complex   was raging along the nevada state line and has burned about 134 square miles (348 square kilometers) as state regulators asked consumers to “conserve as much electricity as possible” to avoid any outages starting monday afternoon. … ” read more from abc news here: wildfires rage as us west grapples with heat wave, drought “imagine a world where water is scarce in the west   or at least stretches of the increasingly hot and dry landscape. a decades long megadrought spurred by climate change, which has led to alarmingly low reservoir levels in the region, nearing or at records in some cases, add urgency to considering this consideration. the west has more hydrologic variability   more flood years and drought years per average year   than any other part of the country, jay lund, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the university of california, davis, and the head of the school’s center for watershed sciences told abc news. … ” read more from abc news here: how will the west solve a water crisis if climate change continues to get worse? “a june heat wave sparked an earlier than expected algae bloom in the drought ravaged drinking water reservoir in price, utah a sign of climate change related water quality challenges to come in the tinder dry west. extreme heat and wildfires are engulfing the region amid a historic drought that scientists think may be the region’s worst in at least 1,200 years. in response, some drinking water systems are beginning to grapple with maintaining both water supplies and water quality as they deal with potential legal and regulatory concerns. climate change driven heat and drought are exacerbating long standing water shortages in the west, said anne castle, a senior fellow at the university of colorado law school and a former water lawyer at holland & hart llp. … ” read more from bloomberg here: it’s not just water supply: drought harms water quality, too “the drought is pummeling many of california’s varied agricultural industries particularly hard, as farmers and ranchers contemplate a future without   or with much less   water. and it’s forcing difficult choices about the most efficient uses of a precious resource. like all the rest of california’s thorny problems, which crops to grow and how much of them should be planted is a shifting puzzle unfurled across millions of acres. consider the almond. … ” read more from the new york times here: how the drought is affecting california’s crops “as california enters another period of drought, experts say the dry spell could make an already difficult housing market even worse. … stricter restrictions could cause problems in the housing market. dr. tom corringham, a research economist from the scripps institution of oceanography, says coastal areas may not see the drought impact housing. but, he says rural and inland communities that depend on groundwater will be a different story. … ” read more from channel 10 here: california drought could make housing crisis worse “just five months into 2021 and much of california is experiencing some form of drought conditions. it’s an issue that has plagued the golden state year after year, impacting a variety of sectors of industry, the environment, and daily life. drought is considered a deficit of precipitation over a long period of time, resulting in a shortage of water, according to the noaa’s national integrated drought information system. but this definition can vary by region and reflecting the needs and approaches of said region. depending on whether a region defines a drought as a concept or idea, or an operational function, that can impact how areas respond to droughts and address them. … ” read more from channel 10 here: what to know: types of droughts and how they impact you “it was the middle of a heat wave, but the little roadside farm stand with its crate of round, heavy watermelons and colorful rows of nectarines   the crimson ones that are juicy, and the pale, speckled type that stay crisp   lured drivers to pull over. liset garcia, 29, the owner of sweet girl farms, greeted each customer with glee, and the returning ones by name, as they lingered to chat in the shade of three gnarled olive trees that mark this spot on a long country road at the foot of the sierra nevada. … ” read more from the la times here: drought has taken the water from this farmer’s wells, but for her, life still gives “a key message emerged when california water leaders gathered in modesto: stop grumbling about drought, and get cracking on real fixes. rep. josh harder, r turlock, convened the thursday afternoon summit at the stanislaus county farm bureau. several speakers called for new reservoirs and groundwater recharge to hold wet year surpluses for use in dry times like 2021. the manager of a west side irrigation district invited others to follow her lead in using water recycled from city sewage plants. … ” read more from the modesto bee here: key players in california water confront drought, fish and more at modesto summit “a dried out floodplain in place county   just north of sacramento, california   was in perfect condition to fuel wildfires. it was 2014, and california was in the midst of its worst drought in decades. the floodplain was full of dry brush and devoid of moisture. fire prevention and ecological workers in the state were desperately working to mitigate potential wildfire fuel sources anywhere they could. ecologists   facing a dangerously dry floodplain and a price tag of $1m to $2m for a major construction project to fix the site   did something surprising. they called in the beavers. thanks to the introduction of the industrious, flat tailed mammals, the site was restored to a vibrant, marshy floodplain four years earlier than anyone anticipated, and with a significantly cheaper price tag. … ” read more from the independent here: how a group of beavers prevented a wildfire and saved california a million dollars (note: free registration required.) “upper bollinger canyon is as arid as any place in our region. you’ll find no sign of water, but that doesn’t stop a determined dreamer like michael carilli. “i want to put a house up here,” he said. carilli must dig a well to make that happen   but where? enter rob thompson of thompson well location. “i’m a dowser. a diviner. a witcher. some people call me a warlock,” said thompson. … ” read more from channel 7 here: east bay ‘warlock’ uses ancient method to find water for building wells amid drought wyatt arnold writes, “a california water myth which becomes especially pernicious in droughts is that california is “running out of water” (hanak et al. 2009). viewing california’s supply and demand pressures in terms of fixed water requirements perpetuates this myth and invariably places undue attention on building additional supply infrastructure. instead, managing water as a scarce resource suggests a balanced portfolio of water trading, investments in conveyance, smart groundwater replenishment, and demand management. with such a balanced portfolio, 1) california’s water supply situation is not broadly dire, and 2) california’s vast and interconnected water infrastructure and groundwater resources can minimize most problems from the state’s highly variable climate. an economics driven model of california’s water system, the california value integrated network (calvin), has provided such insight from several perspectives, including climate change, groundwater, water markets, and reservoir operations. … ” read more from the california water blog here: california isn’t running out of water; it’s running out of cheap water “water resource problems and management are complex, confusing, and controversial for participants in technical, policy, and public water deliberations. a thoughtful planning approach can reduce confusion and structure controversies. this paper attempts to summarize and organize various technical approaches to water resources planning. this paper summarizes the basic approach of rational planning, followed by brief reviews of requirements based, benefit cost based, multiobjective, conflict resolution, market based, and muddling through approaches to planning. each approach has particular advantages and disadvantages for specific situations. each approach also has somewhat different policy expectations and analytical requirements. these approaches are discussed in terms of practical contributions to addressing water problems in contemporary contexts, particularly for messy long term regional water issues.” read the paper authored by jay lund at the asce here: technical paper: approaches to planning water resources “california denied 21 oil drilling permits this week in the latest move toward ending fracking in a state that makes millions from the petroleum industry but is seeing widespread drought and more dangerous fire seasons linked to climate change. state oil and gas supervisor uduak joe ntuk sent letters thursday to aera energy denying permits to drill using hydraulic fracturing in two kern county oil fields to “protect “public health and safety and environmental quality, including (the) reduction and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions.” aera energy, a joint venture shell and exxonmobil, called the permit denials “disappointing though not surprising.” ... ” read more from the mercury news here: california oil regulators deny new fracking permits “the california endangered species act (cesa) is one of the most important legal tools available to the fish and game commission and department of fish and wildlife to protect the state’s wildlife resources. the listing process, together with the prohibitions in section 2080 of the fish and game code, are the law’s regulatory teeth. at the same time, because any interested person can petition to list a species, the listing process invites citizen participation in the regulatory scheme. listing decisions can be the difference between persistence and extinction of a species. they can also cause severe economic disruption and, for this reason, should in our view be made with due deliberation and based on the best available scientific information. here we describe the complex roadmap that petitions must navigate and that is intended to assure that only native species that need protection get it.” read the paper at the center for water resources policy and management here: paper: an overview of the listing process under the california endangered species act “before his corpse was dumped in a shallow grave 50 miles north of los angeles, mauricio ismael gonzalez ramirez was held prisoner at one of the hundreds of black market pot farms that have exploded across california’s high desert in the last several years, authorities say. he worked in what has become california’s newest illegal marijuana haven: the mojave desert. a world away from the lush forest groves of the “emerald triangle” of northern california, this hot, dry, unforgiving climate has attracted more than a thousand marijuana plantations that fill the arid expanse between the antelope valley and the colorado river. it’s an unprecedented siege that has upended life in the remote desert communities and vast tract developments that overlook joshua trees and scrub. authorities say the boom has led to forced labor, violence, water theft and the destruction of fragile desert habitat and wildlife. … ” read more from the la times here: illegal pot invades california’s deserts, bringing violence, fear, ecological destruction return to top phil isenberg, founding chair of the delta stewardship council, and david guy, president of the northern california water association, write, “when the legal battle over employees vs. contractors wrapped up in california, no one thought it could throw a wrench into the long established independence of the scientific body charged with protecting a precious california resource in the sacramento san joaquin delta: water. that is, however, precisely what happened. state counsel advised members of the delta independent science board that they were employees, contrary to the independent status required by the board. this threatens the independent science on which our state’s water decisions depend. … ” read more from cal matters here: independent science to solve delta water problems is slipping away alexandra nagy, california director for food & water watch, writes, “california has a long history of treating public water as a commodity instead of a human right and entrusting it to industries that fail to manage it responsibly. water is a public trust resource that needs protection. the federal water affordability, transparency, equity and reliability (water) act would put water systems back in the hands of the people who depend on it for life and livelihood. this bill would set aside $35 billion annually to shore up drinking and wastewater systems. it would ensure no one lacks access to water because they can’t afford it. with a federal budget reconciliation package in the works, s. 611 needs the support of californians and our lawmakers. u.s. sens. alex padilla and dianne feinstein and house speaker nancy pelosi, all democrats, must co sponsor this critical legislation and shepherd it into law. … ” read more from the desert sun here: california says water is a human right. our politicians need to act like it. romeo agbalog and john c. moore iii with the kern county farm bureau write, “millions of americans joined friends, families and neighbors to celebrate our nation’s independence day. this year’s independence day took on additional meaning marking the first time in more than a year and a half that we could gather free of restrictions, social distancing and the looming specter of quarantine and lockdowns. backyard barbecues, cookouts and potlucks featuring hamburgers, steaks, baked potatoes, mixed green salads, and sweet and savory fruit are as much of a tradition as the fireworks that illuminate the skyline and every neighborhood corner. in fact, many of the delectable items featured on picnic tables across the country came from california, and from kern county in particular. for example, kern produces 80 percent of the country’s carrots, 44 percent of our nation’s grapes, 17 percent of citrus, and 10 percent of the world’s pistachios, to name a few. and much like the streamers that lit up the sky just a few days ago, we are seeing a new trend in a different item skyrocketing. this time it’s food prices. but why? ... ” continue reading at the bakersfield californian here: how much are you willing to pay for drought? return to top “sacramento area leaders across the region’s major municipalities including the cities of sacramento, roseville and folsom and the county of sacramento are urging the public to increase their conservation efforts as severe drought conditions continue to unfold, impacting the environment of the lower american river this summer and potentially next year’s water supplies. the sacramento region is experiencing the most severe drought of this century. what started as a near normal snowpack, soaked into the soil or evaporated rather than flowing into lakes, reservoirs and rivers. by may, the snowpack was functionally gone, two months earlier than average, and folsom reservoir water levels were 68 feet lower than 2020. … ” read more from roseville today here: roseville joins area officials in urging water conservation “winemaker matt naumann expected his fire insurance costs to skyrocket. the annual premium to insure his small vineyard and winery in placerville (el dorado county) had risen steadily over the last three years, from $7,000 per year to $8,500 to $10,000. after last year’s catastrophic fire season, “i figured, maybe they’ll even rise by 50% or 100%,” said naumann, the owner of newfound wines. instead, his fire insurance was revoked entirely. when naumann’s broker tried to find other carriers, he met more denials. for now, he’ll be entering wildfire season uninsured. … ” read more from the san francisco chronicle here: as california wineries lose insurance, some fear this fire season will be their last “oceanside’s annual harbor dredging and the occasional regional sand replenishment projects are not enough to save the city’s eroding beaches, a new study shows. a proposal to build rock groins on the beach appears to be the best way to stop or at least slow the steady erosion that has been chewing away the city’s coastline since the 1940s, according to the study prepared for oceanside by the long beach based consulting firm ghd. “sand from this (harbor dredging) program does little to really benefit the city beaches,” said brian leslie, a senior coastal scientist and project manager with ghd, in a june 30 community zoom meeting. … ” read more from the san diego union tribune here: oceanside searches for ways to keep sand on its eroding beaches “california’s climate is prone to prolonged periods of drought, which could take a heavy toll on people mentally, emotionally, and financially. it doesn’t suck away only moisture from fields and pastures; it can suck away hope, too. the most severe drought on the instrumental record stretched from 2012 2016 and had far reaching effects on california’s economy, ecosystem, and citizens. according to a report released in 2017 by the pacific institute, the drought increased california’s electricity costs by $2.45 billion and contributed to an increase in carbon dioxide emissions. … ” read more from channel 10 here: drought brings stress, economic loss, and societal inequities to san diego return to top “in the gray light of dawn, hundreds of swallows darted over a pool of standing water in an irrigated field along the colorado river. the birds were attracted to the early morning mosquitos swarming the saturated landscape. bill vetter, a wildlife biologist with wyoming based precision wildlife resources, methodically counted the birds. for six minutes, he marked down every bird he saw or heard at eight different locations across the ranch, 250 meters apart. vetter is part of an avian monitoring program, headed up by audubon rockies, which aims to learn more about how birds use irrigated agricultural lands. in 2020, the fields near kremmling where vetter counted purposely did not irrigate as part of a state grant funded study on water use in high elevation pastures. this year, irrigators are back to watering their usual amount and vetter is tracking the trends in bird species and numbers. … ” read more from the colorado sun here: bird count examines what happens when high country colorado irrigators use less water return to top “thanks to our ever increasing reliance on the internet, the amount of data online is skyrocketing. the global data volume is expected to grow sixfold from 2018 to 2025. it might seem like that information is swirling in the cloudy sky, but it’s stored in physical data centers. landon marston, an assistant professor at virginia tech, recently noticed news articles addressing the growing energy requirements of the data center industry. as an expert in water resources engineering, he wondered how those energy requirements translated into water consumption. “we know data centers use a lot of energy, and energy uses a lot of water. so how much water is being used?” said marston. “we suspected that there could be large impacts at a very local scale, but there hadn’t really been a spatially detailed analysis looking at the environmental impact of data centers.” ... ” read more from eos here: u.s. data centers rely on water from stressed basins return to top click here to 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laura sullivan landfill workers bury all plastic except soda bottles and milk jugs at rogue disposal & recycling in southern oregon. laura sullivan/npr hide caption landfill workers bury all plastic except soda bottles and milk jugs at rogue disposal & recycling in southern oregon. note: an audio version of this story aired on npr's planet money. listen to the episode here. laura leebrick, a manager at rogue disposal & recycling in southern oregon, is standing on the end of its landfill watching an avalanche of plastic trash pour out of a semitrailer: containers, bags, packaging, strawberry containers, yogurt cups. none of this plastic will be turned into new plastic things. all of it is buried. "to me that felt like it was a betrayal of the public trust," she said. "i had been lying to people ... unwittingly." rogue, like most recycling companies, had been sending plastic trash to china, but when china shut its doors two years ago, leebrick scoured the u.s. for buyers. she could find only someone who wanted white milk jugs. she sends the soda bottles to the state. but when leebrick tried to tell people the truth about burying all the other plastic, she says people didn't want to hear it. "i remember the first meeting where i actually told a city council that it was costing more to recycle than it was to dispose of the same material as garbage," she says, "and it was like heresy had been spoken in the room: you're lying. this is gold. we take the time to clean it, take the labels off, separate it and put it here. it's gold. this is valuable." but it's not valuable, and it never has been. and what's more, the makers of plastic   the nation's largest oil and gas companies   have known this all along, even as they spent millions of dollars telling the american public the opposite. this story is part of a joint investigation with the pbs series frontline that includes the documentary plastic wars, which aired march 31 on pbs. watch it online now. npr and pbs frontline spent months digging into internal industry documents and interviewing top former officials. we found that the industry sold the public on an idea it knew wouldn't work   that the majority of plastic could be, and would be, recycled   all while making billions of dollars selling the world new plastic. the industry's awareness that recycling wouldn't keep plastic out of landfills and the environment dates to the program's earliest days, we found. "there is serious doubt that [recycling plastic] can ever be made viable on an economic basis," one industry insider wrote in a 1974 speech. yet the industry spent millions telling people to recycle, because, as one former top industry insider told npr, selling recycling sold plastic, even if it wasn't true. "if the public thinks that recycling is working, then they are not going to be as concerned about the environment," larry thomas, former president of the society of the plastics industry, known today as the plastics industry association and one of the industry's most powerful trade groups in washington, d.c., told npr. in response, industry representative steve russell, until recently the vice president of plastics for the trade group the american chemistry council, said the industry has never intentionally misled the public about recycling and is committed to ensuring all plastic is recycled. "the proof is the dramatic amount of investment that is happening right now," russell said. "i do understand the skepticism, because it hasn't happened in the past, but i think the pressure, the public commitments and, most important, the availability of technology is going to give us a different outcome." here's the basic problem: all used plastic can be turned into new things, but picking it up, sorting it out and melting it down is expensive. plastic also degrades each time it is reused, meaning it can't be reused more than once or twice. on the other hand, new plastic is cheap. it's made from oil and gas, and it's almost always less expensive and of better quality to just start fresh. all of these problems have existed for decades, no matter what new recycling technology or expensive machinery has been developed. in all that time, less than 10 percent of plastic has ever been recycled. but the public has known little about these difficulties. it could be because that's not what they were told. starting in the 1990s, the public saw an increasing number of commercials and messaging about recycling plastic. "the bottle may look empty, yet it's anything but trash," says one ad from 1990 showing a plastic bottle bouncing out of a garbage truck. "it's full of potential. ... we've pioneered the country's largest, most comprehensive plastic recycling program to help plastic fill valuable uses and roles." these commercials carried a distinct message: plastic is special, and the consumer should recycle it. it may have sounded like an environmentalist's message, but the ads were paid for by the plastics industry, made up of companies like exxon, chevron, dow, dupont and their lobbying and trade organizations in washington. industry companies spent tens of millions of dollars on these ads and ran them for years, promoting the benefits of a product that, for the most part, was buried, was burned or, in some cases, wound up in the ocean. documents show industry officials knew this reality about recycling plastic as far back as the 1970s. many of the industry's old documents are housed in libraries, such as the one on the grounds of the first dupont family home in delaware. others are with universities, where former industry leaders sent their records. at syracuse university, there are boxes of files from a former industry consultant. and inside one of them is a report written in april 1973 by scientists tasked with forecasting possible issues for top industry executives. recycling plastic, it told the executives, was unlikely to happen on a broad scale. "there is no recovery from obsolete products," it says. it says pointedly: plastic degrades with each turnover. "a degradation of resin properties and performance occurs during the initial fabrication, through aging, and in any reclamation process," the report told executives. recycling plastic is "costly," it says, and sorting it, the report concludes, is "infeasible." and there are more documents, echoing decades of this knowledge, including one analysis from a top official at the industry's most powerful trade group. "the costs of separating plastics ... are high," he tells colleagues, before noting that the cost of using oil to make plastic is so low that recycling plastic waste "can't yet be justified economically." larry thomas, the former president of the society of the plastics industry, worked side by side with top oil and plastics executives. he's retired now, on the coast of florida where he likes to bike, and feels conflicted about the time he worked with the plastics industry. "i did what the industry wanted me to do, that's for sure," he says. "but my personal views didn't always jibe with the views i had to take as part of my job." thomas took over back in the late 1980s, and back then, plastic was in a crisis. there was too much plastic trash. the public was getting upset. garten services, a recycling facility in oregon, where paper and metals still have markets but most plastic is thrown away. all plastic must first go through a recycling facility like this one, but only a fraction of the plastic produced actually winds up getting recycled. laura sullivan/npr hide caption garten services, a recycling facility in oregon, where paper and metals still have markets but most plastic is thrown away. all plastic must first go through a recycling facility like this one, but only a fraction of the plastic produced actually winds up getting recycled. in one document from 1989, thomas calls executives at exxon, chevron, amoco, dow, dupont, procter & gamble and others to a private meeting at the ritz carlton in washington. "the image of plastics is deteriorating at an alarming rate," he wrote. "we are approaching a point of no return." he told the executives they needed to act. the "viability of the industry and the profitability of your company" are at stake. thomas remembers now. "the feeling was the plastics industry was under fire   we got to do what it takes to take the heat off, because we want to continue to make plastic products," he says. at this time, thomas had a co worker named lew freeman. he was a vice president of the lobbying group. he remembers many of the meetings like the one in washington. "the basic question on the table was, you guys as our trade association in the plastics industry aren't doing enough   we need to do more," freeman says. "i remember this is one of those exchanges that sticks with me 35 years later or however long it's been ... and it was what we need to do is ... advertise our way out of it. that was the idea thrown out." so began the plastics industry's $50 million a year ad campaign promoting the benefits of plastic. "presenting the possibilities of plastic!" one iconic ad blared, showing kids in bike helmets and plastic bags floating in the air. "this advertising was motivated first and foremost by legislation and other initiatives that were being introduced in state legislatures and sometimes in congress," freeman says, "to ban or curb the use of plastics because of its performance in the waste stream." at the same time, the industry launched a number of feel good projects, telling the public to recycle plastic. it funded sorting machines, recycling centers, nonprofits, even expensive benches outside grocery stores made out of plastic bags. few of these projects actually turned much plastic into new things. npr tracked down almost a dozen projects the industry publicized starting in 1989. all of them shuttered or failed by the mid 1990s. mobil's massachusetts recycling facility lasted three years, for example. amoco's project to recycle plastic in new york schools lasted two. dow and huntsman's highly publicized plan to recycle plastic in national parks made it to seven out of 419 parks before the companies cut funding. none of them was able to get past the economics: making new plastic out of oil is cheaper and easier than making it out of plastic trash. both freeman and thomas, the head of the lobbying group, say the executives all knew that. "there was a lot of discussion about how difficult it was to recycle," thomas remembers. "they knew that the infrastructure wasn't there to really have recycling amount to a whole lot." even as the ads played and the projects got underway, thomas and freeman say industry officials wanted to get recycling plastic into people's homes and outside on their curbs with blue bins. the industry created a special group called the council for solid waste solutions and brought a man from dupont, ron liesemer, over to run it. liesemer's job was to at least try to make recycling work   because there was some hope, he said, however unlikely, that maybe if they could get recycling started, somehow the economics of it all would work itself out. "i had no staff, but i had money," liesemer says. "millions of dollars." liesemer took those millions out to minnesota and other places to start local plastic recycling programs. but then he ran into the same problem all the industry documents found. recycling plastic wasn't making economic sense: there were too many different kinds of plastic, hundreds of them, and they can't be melted down together. they have to be sorted out. "yes, it can be done," liesemer says, "but who's going to pay for it? because it goes into too many applications, it goes into too many structures that just would not be practical to recycle." liesemer says he started as many programs as he could and hoped for the best. "they were trying to keep their products on the shelves," liesemer says. "that's what they were focused on. they weren't thinking what lesson should we learn for the next 20 years. no. solve today's problem." and thomas, who led the trade group, says all of these efforts started to have an effect: the message that plastic could be recycled was sinking in. "i can only say that after a while, the atmosphere seemed to change," he says. "i don't know whether it was because people thought recycling had solved the problem or whether they were so in love with plastic products that they were willing to overlook the environmental concerns that were mounting up." but as the industry pushed those public strategies to get past the crisis, officials were also quietly launching a broader plan. in the early 1990s, at a small recycling facility near san diego, a man named coy smith was one of the first to see the industry's new initiative. back then, smith ran a recycling business. his customers were watching the ads and wanted to recycle plastic. so smith allowed people to put two plastic items in their bins: soda bottles and milk jugs. he lost money on them, he says, but the aluminum, paper and steel from his regular business helped offset the costs. but then, one day, almost overnight, his customers started putting all kinds of plastic in their bins. "the symbols start showing up on the containers," he explains. smith went out to the piles of plastic and started flipping over the containers. all of them were now stamped with the triangle of arrows   known as the international recycling symbol   with a number in the middle. he knew right away what was happening. "all of a sudden, the consumer is looking at what's on their soda bottle and they're looking at what's on their yogurt tub, and they say, 'oh well, they both have a symbol. oh well, i guess they both go in,' " he says. unwanted used plastic sits outside garten services, a recycling facility in oregon. laura sullivan/npr hide caption unwanted used plastic sits outside garten services, a recycling facility in oregon. the bins were now full of trash he couldn't sell. he called colleagues at recycling facilities all across the country. they reported having the same problem. industry documents from this time show that just a couple of years earlier, starting in 1989, oil and plastics executives began a quiet campaign to lobby almost 40 states to mandate that the symbol appear on all plastic   even if there was no way to economically recycle it. some environmentalists also supported the symbol, thinking it would help separate plastic. smith said what it did was make all plastic look recyclable. "the consumers were confused," smith says. "it totally undermined our credibility, undermined what we knew was the truth in our community, not the truth from a lobbying group out of d.c." but the lobbying group in d.c. knew the truth in smith's community too. a report given to top officials at the society of the plastics industry in 1993 told them about the problems. "the code is being misused," it says bluntly. "companies are using it as a 'green' marketing tool." the code is creating "unrealistic expectations" about how much plastic can actually be recycled, it told them. smith and his colleagues launched a national protest, started a working group and fought the industry for years to get the symbol removed or changed. they lost. "we don't have manpower to compete with this," smith says. "we just don't. even though we were all dedicated, it still was like, can we keep fighting a battle like this on and on and on from this massive industry that clearly has no end in sight of what they're able to do and willing to do to keep their image the image they want." "it's pure manipulation of the consumer," he says. in response, industry officials told npr that the code was only ever meant to help recycling facilities sort plastic and was not intended to create any confusion. without question, plastic has been critical to the country's success. it's cheap and durable, and it's a chemical marvel. it's also hugely profitable. the oil industry makes more than $400 billion a year making plastic, and as demand for oil for cars and trucks declines, the industry is telling shareholders that future profits will increasingly come from plastic. and if there was a sign of this future, it's a brand new chemical plant that rises from the flat skyline outside sweeny, texas. it's so new that it's still shiny, and inside the facility, the concrete is free from stains. chevron phillips chemical's new $6 billion plastic manufacturing plant rises from the skyline in sweeny, texas. company officials say they see a bright future for their products as demand for plastic continues to rise. laura sullivan/npr hide caption this plant is chevron phillips chemical's $6 billion investment in new plastic. "we see a very bright future for our products," says jim becker, the vice president of sustainability for chevron phillips, inside a pristine new warehouse next to the plant. "these are products the world needs and continues to need," he says. "we're very optimistic about future growth." with that growth, though, comes ever more plastic trash. but becker says chevron phillips has a plan: it will recycle 100% of the plastic it makes by 2040. becker seems earnest. he tells a story about vacationing with his wife and being devastated by the plastic trash they saw. when asked how chevron phillips will recycle 100% of the plastic it makes, he doesn't hesitate. "recycling has to get more efficient, more economic," he says. "we've got to do a better job, collecting the waste, sorting it. that's going to be a huge effort." fix recycling is the industry's message too, says steve russell, the industry's recent spokesman. "fixing recycling is an imperative, and we've got to get it right," he says. "i understand there is doubt and cynicism. that's going to exist. but check back in. we're there." larry thomas, lew freeman and ron liesemer, former industry executives, helped oil companies out of the first plastic crisis by getting people to believe something the industry knew then wasn't true: that most plastic could be and would be recycled. russell says this time will be different. "it didn't get recycled because the system wasn't up to par," he says. "we hadn't invested in the ability to sort it and there hadn't been market signals that companies were willing to buy it, and both of those things exist today." but plastic today is harder to sort than ever: there are more kinds of plastic, it's cheaper to make plastic out of oil than plastic trash and there is exponentially more of it than 30 years ago. and during those 30 years, oil and plastic companies made billions of dollars in profit as the public consumed ever more quantities of plastic. russell doesn't dispute that. "and during that time, our members have invested in developing the technologies that have brought us where we are today," he says. "we are going to be able to make all of our new plastic out of existing municipal solid waste in plastic." recently, an industry advocacy group funded by the nation's largest oil and plastic companies launched its most expensive effort yet to promote recycling and cleanup of plastic waste. there's even a new ad. new plastic bottles come off the line at a plastic manufacturing facility in maryland. plastic production is expected to triple by 2050. laura sullivan/npr hide caption new plastic bottles come off the line at a plastic manufacturing facility in maryland. plastic production is expected to triple by 2050. "we have the people that can change the world," it says to soaring music as people pick up plastic trash and as bottles get sorted in a recycling center. freeman, the former industry official, recently watched the ad. "déjà vu all over again," he says as the ad finishes. "this is the same kind of thinking that ran in the '90s. i don't think this kind of advertising is, is helpful at all." larry thomas said the same. "i don't think anything has changed," thomas says. "sounds exactly the same." these days as thomas bikes down by the beach, he says he spends a lot of time thinking about the oceans and what will happen to them in 20 or 50 years, long after he is gone. and as he thinks back to those years he spent in conference rooms with top executives from oil and plastic companies, what occurs to him now is something he says maybe should have been obvious all along. he says what he saw was an industry that didn't want recycling to work. because if the job is to sell as much oil as you possibly can, any amount of recycled plastic is competition. "you know, they were not interested in putting any real money or effort into recycling because they wanted to sell virgin material," thomas says. "nobody that is producing a virgin product wants something to come along that is going to replace it. produce more virgin material   that's their business." and they are. analysts now expect plastic production to triple by 2050. cat schuknecht contributed to this report. sponsor message become an npr sponsor

coordinatinglead authors: sonia i. seneviratne (switzerland), xuebin zhang (canada) lead authors: muhammad adnan (pakistan), wafae badi (morocco), claudine dereczynski (brazil), alejandro di luca (australia/canada/argentina), subimal ghosh (india), iskhaq iskandar (indonesia), james kossin (united states of america), sophie lewis (australia), friederike otto (united kingdom/germany), izidine pinto (south africa/mozambique), masaki satoh (japan), sergio m. vicente serrano (spain), michael wehner (united states of america), botao zhou (china) contributing authors: mathias hauser (switzerland), megan kirchmeier young (canada/united states of america), lisa v. alexander (australia), richard p. allan (united kingdom), mansour almazroui (saudi arabia), lincoln m. alvez (brazil), margot bador (france, australia/france), rondrotiana barimalala (south africa/madagascar), richard a. betts (united kingdom), suzana j. camargo (united states of america/brazil, united states of america), pep g. canadell (australia), erika coppola (italy), markus g. donat (spain/germany, australia), hervé douville (france), robert j. h. dunn (united kingdom/germany,united kingdom), erich fischer (switzerland), hayley j. fowler (united kingdom), nathan p. gillett (canada), peter greve (austria/germany), michael grose (australia), lukas gudmundsson (switzerland/germany, iceland), josé manuel guttiérez (spain), lofti halimi (algeria), zhenyu han (china), kevin hennessy (australia), richard g. jones (united kingdom), yeon hee kim (republic of korea), thomas knutson (united states of america), june yi lee (republic of korea), chao li (china), georges noel t. longandjo (south africa/democratic republic of the congo), kathleen l. mcinnes (australia), tim r. mcvicar (australia), malte meinshausen (australia/germany), seung ki min (republic of korea), ryan s. padron flasher (switzerland/ecuador, united states of america), christina m. patricola (united states of america), roshanka ranasinghe (the netherlands/sri lanka, australia), johan reyns (the netherlands/belgium), joeri rogelj (united kingdom/belgium), alex c. ruane (united states of america), daniel ruiz carrascal (united states of america/colombia), bjørn h. samset (norway), jonathan spinoni (italy), qiaohong sun (canada/china), ying sun (china), mouhamadou bamba sylla (rwanda/senegal), claudia tebaldi (united states of america), laurent terray (france), wim thiery (belgium), jessica tierney (united states of america), maarten k. van aalst (the netherlands), bart van den hurk (the netherlands), robert vautard (france), wen wang (china), seth westra (australia), jakob zscheischler (germany) review editors: johnny chan (china), asgeir sorteberg (norway), carolina vera (argentina) chapter scientists: mathias hauser (switzerland), megan kirchmeier young (canada/united states of america), hui wan (canada) this chapter should be cited as: seneviratne, s.i., x. zhang, m. adnan, w. badi, c. dereczynski, a. di luca, s. ghosh, i. iskandar, j. kossin, s. lewis, f. otto, i. pinto, m. satoh, s.m. vicente serrano, m. wehner, and b. zhou, 2021: weather and climate extreme events in a changing climate. in climate change 2021: the physical science basis. contribution of working group i to the sixth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change[masson delmotte, v., p. zhai, a. pirani, s.l. connors, c. péan, s. berger, n. caud, y. chen, l. goldfarb, m.i. gomis, m. huang, k. leitzell, e. lonnoy, j.b.r. matthews, t.k. maycock, t. waterfield, o. yelekçi, r. yu, and b. zhou (eds.)]. cambridge university press, cambridge, united kingdom and new york, ny, usa, pp. 1513 1766, doi: 10.1017/9781009157896.013. this chapter assesses changes in weather and climate extremes on regional and global scales, including observed changes and their attribution, as well as projected changes. the extremes considered include temperature extremes, heavy precipitation and pluvial floods, river floods, droughts, storms (including tropical cyclones), as well as compound events (multivariate and concurrent extremes). the assessment focuses on land regions excluding antarctica. changes in marine extremes are addressed in chapter 9 and cross chapter box 9.1. assessments of past changes and their drivers are from 1950 onward, unless indicated otherwise. projections for changes in extremes are presented for different levels of global warming, supplemented with information for the conversion to emissions scenario based projections (cross chapter box 11.1 and table 4.2). since the ipcc fifth assessment report (ar5), there have been important new developments and knowledge advances on changes in weather and climate extremes, in particular regarding human influence on individual extreme events, on changes in droughts, tropical cyclones, and compound events, and on projections at different global warming levels (1.5°c 4°c). these, together with new evidence at regional scales, provide a stronger basis and more regional information for the ar6 assessment on weather and climate extremes. it is an established fact that human induced greenhouse gas emissions have led to an increased frequency and/or intensity of some weather and climate extremes since pre industrial time, in particular for temperature extremes. evidence of observed changes in extremes and their attribution to human influence (including greenhouse gas and aerosol emissions and land use changes) has strengthened since ar5, in particular for extreme precipitation, droughts, tropical cyclones and compound extremes (including dry/hot events and fire weather). some recent hot extreme events would have been extremely unlikely to occur without human influence on the climate system. {11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.6, 11.7, 11.8} regional changes in the intensity and frequency of climate extremes generally scale with global warming. new evidence strengthens the conclusion from the ipcc special report on global warming of 1.5°c (sr1.5) that even relatively small incremental increases in global warming (+0.5°c) cause statistically significant changes in extremes on the global scale and for large regions (high confidence). in particular, this is the case for temperature extremes (very likely ), the intensification of heavy precipitation (high confidence) including that associated with tropical cyclones (medium confidence), and the worsening of droughts in some regions (high confidence). the occurrence of extreme events unprecedented in the observed record will rise with increasing global warming, even at 1.5°c of global warming. projected percentage changes in frequency are higher for the rarer extreme events (high confidence). {11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.6, 11.9, cross chapter box 11.1} since ar5, the confidence about past and future changes in weather and climate extremes has increased due to better physical understanding of processes, an increasing proportion of the scientific literature combining different lines of evidence, and improved accessibility to different types of climate models (high confidence). there have been improvements in some observation based datasets, including reanalysis data (high confidence). climate models can reproduce the sign (direction) of changes in temperature extremes observed globally and in most regions, although the magnitude of the trends may differ (high confidence). models are able to capture the large scale spatial distribution of precipitation extremes over land (high confidence). the intensity and frequency of extreme precipitation simulated by coupled model intercomparison project phase 6 (cmip6) models are similar to those simulated by cmip5 models (high confidence). higher horizontal model resolution improves the spatial representation of some extreme events (e.g., heavy precipitation events), in particular in regions with highly varying topography (high confidence). {11.2, 11.3, 11.4} the frequency and intensity of hot extremes (including heatwaves) have increased, and those of cold extremes have decreased on the global scale since 1950 (virtually certain). this also applies at regional scale, with more than 80% of ar6 regions1showing similar changes assessed to be at leastlikely . in a few regions, limited evidence (data or literature) prevents the reliable estimation of trends. {11.3, 11.9} human induced greenhouse gas forcing is the main driver of the observed changes in hot and cold extremes on the global scale (virtually certain ) and on most continents (very likely ). the effect of enhanced greenhouse gas concentrations on extreme temperatures is moderated or amplified at the regional scale by regional processes such as soil moisture or snow/ice albedo feedbacks, by regional forcing from land use and land cover changes, or aerosol concentrations, and decadal and multi decadal natural variability. changes in anthropogenic aerosol concentrations have likely affected trends in hot extremes in some regions. irrigation and crop expansion have attenuated increases in summer hot extremes in some regions, such as the midwestern usa (medium confidence). urbanization has likely exacerbated changes in temperature extremes in cities, in particular for nighttime extremes. {11.1, 11.2, 11.3} the frequency and intensity of hot extremes will continue to increase and those of cold extremes will continue to decrease, at global and continental scales and in nearly all inhabited regions1 with increasing global warming levels. this will be the case even if global warming is stabilized at 1.5°c. relative to present day conditions, changes in the intensity of extremes would be at least double at 2°c, and quadruple at 3°c of global warming, compared to changes at 1.5°c of global warming. the number of hot days and hot nights and the length, frequency, and/or intensity of warm spells or heatwaves will increase over most land areas (virtually certain). in most regions, future changes in the intensity of temperature extremes will very likely be proportional to changes in global warming, and up to two to three times larger (high confidence). the highest increase of temperature of hottest days is projected in some mid latitude and semi arid regions and in the south american monsoon region, at about 1.5 times to twice the rate of global warming (high confidence). the highest increase of temperature of coldest days is projected in arctic regions, at about three times the rate of global warming (high confidence). the frequency of hot temperature extreme events will very likely increase nonlinearly with increasing global warming, with larger percentage increases for rarer events. {11.2, 11.3, 11.9; table 11.1; figure 11.3} the frequency and intensity of heavy precipitation events have likely increased at the global scale over a majority of land regions with good observational coverage. heavy precipitation has likely increased on the continental scale over three continents: north america, europe, and asia. regional increases in the frequency and/or intensity of heavy precipitation have been observed with at least medium confidence for nearly half of ar6 regions, including wsaf, esaf, wsb, sas, esb, rfe, wca, eca, tib, eas, sea, nau, neu, eeu, gic, wce, ses, cna, and ena. {11.4, 11.9} human influence, in particular greenhouse gas emissions, is likely the main driver of the observed global scale intensification of heavy precipitation over land regions. it is likely that human induced climate change has contributed to the observed intensification of heavy precipitation at the continental scale in north america, europe and asia. evidence of a human influence on heavy precipitation has emerged in some regions (high confidence). {11.4, 11.9, table 11.1} heavy precipitation will generally become more frequent and more intense with additional global warming. at a global warming level of 4°c relative to the pre industrial level, very rare (e.g., one in 10 or more years) heavy precipitation events would become more frequent and more intense than in the recent past, on the global scale (virtually certain ) and in all continents and ar6 regions. the increase in frequency and intensity is extremely likely for most continents and very likely for most ar6 regions. at the global scale, the intensification of heavy precipitation will follow the rate of increase in the maximum amount of moisture that the atmosphere can hold as it warms (high confidence), of about 7% per 1°c of global warming. the increase in the frequency of heavy precipitation events will be non linear with more warming and will be higher for rarer events (high confidence), with a likely doubling and tripling in the frequency of 10 year and 50 year events, respectively, compared to the recent past at 4°c of global warming. increases in the intensity of extreme precipitation at regional scales will vary, depending on the amount of regional warming, changes in atmospheric circulation and storm dynamics (high confidence). {11.4, box 11.1} the projected increase in the intensity of extreme precipitation translates to an increase in the frequency and magnitude of pluvial floods   surface water and flash floods   (high confidence), as pluvial flooding results from precipitation intensity exceeding the capacity of natural and artificial drainagesystems. {11.4} significant trends in peak streamflow have been observed in some regions over the past decades (high confidence). the seasonality of river floods has changed in cold regions where snow melt is involved, with an earlier occurrence of peak streamflow (high confidence). {11.5} global hydrological models project a larger fraction of land areas to be affected by an increase in river floods than by a decrease in river floods (medium confidence). regional changes in river floods are more uncertain than changes in pluvial floods because complex hydrological processes and forcings, including land cover change and human water management, are involved. {11.5} different drought types exist, and they are associated with different impacts and respond differently to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations. precipitation deficits and changes in evapotranspiration govern net water availability. a lack of sufficient soil moisture, sometimes amplified by increased atmospheric evaporative demand, results in agricultural and ecological drought. lack of runoff and surface water result in hydrological drought. {11.6} human induced climate change has contributed to increases in agricultural andecological droughts in some regions due to evapotranspiration increases (medium confidence). increases in evapotranspiration have been driven by increases in atmospheric evaporative demand induced by increased temperature, decreased relative humidity and increased net radiation (high confidence). trends in precipitation are not a main driver in affecting global scale trends in drought (medium confidence), but have induced increases in meteorological droughts in a few ar6 regions (nes: high confidence; waf, caf, esaf, sam, sws, ssa, sas: medium confidence). increasing trends in agricultural and ecological droughts have been observed on all continents (waf, caf, wsaf, esaf, wca, eca, eas, sau, med, wce, wna, nes: medium confidence), but decreases only in one ar6 region (nau: medium confidence). increasing trends in hydrological droughts have been observed in a few ar6 regions (med: high confidence; waf, eas, sau: medium confidence). regional scale attribution shows that human induced climate change has contributed to increased agricultural and ecological droughts (med, wna), and increased hydrological drought (med) in some regions (medium confidence). {11.6, 11.9} more regions are affected by increases in agricultural and ecological droughts with increasing global warming (high confidence). several regions will be affected by more severe agricultural and ecological droughts even if global warming is stabilised at 2°c, including med, wsaf, sam and ssa (high confidence), and esaf, mdg, eau, sau, sca, car, nsa, nes, sws, wce, nca, wna and cna (medium confidence). some regions are also projected to be affected by more severe agricultural and ecological droughts at 1.5°c (med, wsaf, esaf, sau, nsa, sam, ssa, cna, medium confidence). at 4°c of global warming, about 50% of all inhabited ar6 regions would be affected by increases in agricultural and ecological droughts (wce, med, cau, eau, sau, wca, eas, sca, car, nsa, nes, sam, sws, ssa, nca, cna, ena, wna, wsaf, esaf, mdg: medium confidence or higher), and only two regions (neaf, sas) would experience decreases in agricultural and ecological drought (medium confidence). there is high confidence that the projected increases in agricultural and ecological droughts are strongly affected by evapotranspiration increases associated with enhanced atmospheric evaporative demand. several regions are projected to be more strongly affected by hydrological droughts with increasing global warming (at 4°c of global warming: neu, wce, eeu, med, sau, wca, sca, nsa, sam, sws, ssa, wna, wsaf, esaf, mdg: medium confidence or higher). there is low confidence that effects of enhanced atmospheric carbon dioxide (co2) concentrations on plant water use efficiency alleviate extreme agricultural and ecological droughts in conditions characterized by limited soil moisture and enhanced atmospheric evaporative demand. there is also low confidence that these effects will substantially reduce global plant transpiration and the severity of hydrological droughts. there is high confidence that the land carbon sink will become less efficient due to soil moisture limitations and associated drought conditions in some regions in higher emissions scenarios, in particular under global warming levels above 4°c. {11.6, 11.9, cross chapter box 5.1} the average and maximum rain rates associated with tropical cyclones (tcs), extratropical cyclones and atmospheric rivers across the globe, and severe convective storms in some regions, increase in a warming world (high confidence) . available event attribution studies of observed strong tcs provide medium confidence for a human contribution to extreme tc rainfall. peak tc rain rates increase with local warming at least at the rate of mean water vapour increase over oceans (about 7% per 1°c of warming) and in some cases exceeding this rate due to increased low level moisture convergence caused by increases in tc wind intensity (medium confidence). {11.7, 11.4, box 11.1} it is likely that the global proportion of category 3 5 tropical cyclone instances2has increased over the past four decades. the average location where tcs reach their peak wind intensity has very likely migrated poleward in the western north pacific ocean since the 1940s, and tc translation speed has likely slowed over the conterminous usa since 1900. evidence of similar trends in other regions is not robust. the global frequency of tc rapid intensification events has likely increased over the past four decades. none of these changes can be explained by natural variability alone (medium confidence). the proportion of intense tcs, average peak tc wind speeds, and peak wind speeds of the most intense tcs will increase on the global scale with increasing global warming (high confidence). the total global frequency of tc formation will decrease or remain unchanged with increasing global warming (medium confidence). {11.7.1} there is low confidence in past changes of maximum wind speeds and other measures of dynamical intensity of extratropical cyclones. future wind speed changes are expected to be small, although poleward shifts in the storm tracks could lead to substantial changes in extreme wind speeds in some regions (medium confidence). there is low confidence in past trends in characteristics of severe convective storms, such as hail and severe winds, beyond an increase in precipitation rates. the frequency of spring severe convective storms is projected to increase in the usa, leading to a lengthening of the severe convective storm season (medium confidence); evidence in other regions is limited. {11.7.2, 11.7.3}. the probability of compound events has likely increased in the past due to human induced climate change and will likely continue to increase with further global warming. concurrent heatwaves and droughts have become more frequent, and this trend will continue with higher global warming (high confidence). fire weather conditions (compound hot, dry and windy events) have become more probable in some regions (medium confidence) and there is high confidence that they will become more frequent in some regions at higher levels of global warming. the probability of compound flooding (storm surge, extreme rainfall and/or river flow) has increased in some locations (medium confidence), and will continue to increase due to sea level rise and increases in heavy precipitation, including changes in precipitation intensity associated with tropical cyclones (high confidence). the land area affected by concurrent extremes has increased (high confidence). concurrent extreme events at different locations, but possibly affecting similar sectors (e.g., critical crop producing areas for global food supply) in different regions, will become more frequent with increasing global warming, in particular above 2°c of global warming (high confidence). {11.8, box 11.2, box 11.4}. the future occurrence of low likelihood, high impact events linked to climate extremes is generally associated with low confidence, but cannot be excluded, especially at global warming levels above 4°c. compound events, including concurrent extremes, are a factor increasing the probability of low likelihood, high impact events (high confidence). with increasing global warming, some compound events with low likelihood in past and current climates will become more frequent, and there is a higher chance of occurrence of historically unprecedented events and surprises (high confidence). however, even extreme events that do not have a particularly low probability in the present climate (at more than 1°c of global warming) can be perceived as surprises because of the pace of global warming (high confidence). {box 11.2} this chapter provides assessments of changes in weather and climate extremes (collectively referred to as extremes) framed in terms of the relevance to the working group ii (wgii) assessment. it assesses observed changes in extremes, their attribution to causes, and future projections, at three global warming levels: 1.5°c, 2°c, and 4°c. this chapter is also one of the four ‘regional chapters’ of the wgi report (along with chapters 10 and 12 and the atlas). consequently, while it encompasses assessments of changes in extremes at global and continental scales to provide a large scale context, it also addresses changes in extremes at regional scales. extremes are climatic impact drivers (annex vii: glossary, see chapter 12 for a comprehensive assessment). the ipcc risk framework (chapter 1) articulates clearly that the exposure and vulnerability to climatic impact drivers, such as extremes, modulate the risk of adverse impacts of these drivers, and that adaptation which reduces exposure and vulnerability will increase resilience, resulting in a reduction in impacts. nonetheless, changes in extremes lead to changes in impacts as a direct consequence of changes in their magnitude and frequency, and also through their influence on exposure and resilience. the special report on managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation (referred as the srex report, ipcc, 2012) provided a comprehensive assessment on changes in extremes and how exposure and vulnerability to extremes determine the impacts and likelihood of disasters. chapter 3 of that report (seneviratne et al., 2012, hereafter also referred to as srex chapter 3) assessed physical aspects of extremes, and laid a foundation for the follow up ipcc assessments. several chapters of the ipcc fifth assessment report (ar5) (ipcc, 2013) addressed climate extremes with respect to observed changes (hartmann et al., 2013), model evaluation (flato et al., 2013), attribution (bindoff et al., 2013), and projected long term changes (collins et al., 2013). assessments were also provided in the ipcc special report on global warming of 1.5°c (sr1.5) (ipcc, 2018; hoegh guldberg et al., 2018), on climate change and land (srccl; (ipcc, 2019a), and on oceans and the cryosphere (srocc; ipcc, 2019b). these assessments are the starting point for the present assessment. this chapter is structured as follows (figure 11.1): this section (11.1) provides the general framing and introduction to the chapter, highlighting key aspects that underlie the confidence and uncertainty in the assessment of changes in extremes, and introducing some main elements of the chapter. to provide readers with a quick overview of past and future changes in extremes, a synthesis of global scale assessments for different types of extremes is included at the end of this section (tables 11.1 and 11.2). section 11.2 introduces methodological aspects of research on climate extremes. sections 11.3 to 11.7 assess past changes and their attribution to causes, and projected future changes in extremes, for different types of extremes, including temperature extremes, heavy precipitation and pluvial floods, river floods, droughts, and storms, in separate sections. section 11.8 addresses compound events. section 11.9 summarizes regional assessments of changes in temperature extremes, in precipitation extremes and in droughts by continents in tables. the chapter also includes several boxes and faqs on more specific topics. building on the srex report and ar5, this report defines an extreme weather event as ‘an event that is rare at a particular place and time of year’, and an extreme climate event as ‘a pattern of extreme weather that persists for some time, such as a season’ (see glossary). the definitions of ‘rare’ are wide ranging, depending on applications. some studies consider an event as an extreme if it is unprecedented; other studies consider events that occur several times a year as moderate extreme events. rarity of an event with a fixed magnitude also changes under human induced climate change, making events that are unprecedented so far rather probable under present conditions, but unique in the observational record   and thus often considered as ‘surprises’ (see box 11.2). various approaches are used to define extremes. these are generally based on the determination of relative (e.g., 90th percentile) or absolute (e.g., 35°c for a hot day) thresholds above which conditions are considered extremes. changes in extremes can be examined from two perspectives, either focusing on changes in frequency of given extremes, or on changes in their intensity. these considerations in the definition of extremes are further addressed in section 11.2.1. the types of extremes assessed in this chapter include temperature extremes, heavy precipitation and pluvial floods, river floods, droughts, and storms. the drought assessment addresses meteorological droughts, agricultural and ecological droughts, and hydrological droughts (see glossary). the storms assessment addresses tropical cyclones, extratropical cyclones, and severe convective storms. this chapter also assesses changes in compound events   that is, multivariate or concurrent extreme events   because of their relevance to impacts as well as the emergence of new literature on the subject. most of the considered extremes were also assessed in srex and ar5. compound events were not assessed in depth in past ipcc reports (srex chapter 3; section 11.8 of this report). marine related extremes such as marine heatwaves and extreme sea level, are assessed in section 9.6.4 and box 9.2 of this report. extremes and related phenomena are of various spatial and temporal scales. tornadoes have a spatial scale as small as less than 100 metres and a temporal scale as short as a few minutes. in contrast, a drought can last for multiple years, affecting vast regions. the level of complexity of the involved processes differs from one type of extreme to another, affecting our capability to detect, attribute and project changes in weather and climate extremes. temperature and precipitation extremes studied in the literature are often based on extremes derived from daily values. studies of events on longer time scales for temperature or precipitation, or on sub daily extremes, are scarcer, which generally limits the assessment for such events. nevertheless, extremes on time scales different from daily are assessed for temperature extremes and heavy precipitation, when possible (sections 11.3 and 11.4). droughts and tropical cyclones are treated as phenomena in general in the assessment, not limited by their extreme forms, because these phenomena are relevant to impacts (sections 11.6 and 11.7). both precipitation and wind extremes associated with storms are considered. multiple concomitant extremes can lead to stronger impacts than those resulting from the same extremes had they happened in isolation. for this reason, the occurrence of multiple extremes that are multivariate and/or concurrent and/or happening in succession, also called ‘compound events’ (srex chapter 3), are assessed in this chapter based on emerging literature on this topic (section 11.8). box 11.2 also provides an assessment on low likelihood, high impact scenarios associated with extremes. the assessment of projected future changes in extremes is presented as function of different global warming levels (section 11.2.4 and cross chapter box 11.1). this provides traceability and comparison to the sr1.5 assessment (hoegh guldberg et al., 2018, hereafter referred to as sr1.5 chapter 3). also, this is useful for decision makers as actionable information, as much of the mitigation policy discussion and adaptation planning can be tied to the level of global warming. for example, regional changes in extremes, and thus their impacts, can be linked to global mitigation efforts. there is also the advantage of separating uncertainty in future projections due to regional responses as a function of global warming levels from other factors such as differences in global climate sensitivity and emissions scenarios (cross chapter box 11.1). information is also provided on the translation between information provided at global warming levels and for single emissions scenarios (cross chapter box 11.1). this facilitates easier comparison with the ar5 assessment and with some analyses provided in other chapters as function of emissions scenarios. a global scale synthesis of this chapter’s assessments is provided in section 11.1.7. in particular, tables 11.1 and 11.2 provide a synthesis for observed and attributed changes, and projected changes in extremes, respectively, at different global warming levels (1.5°c, 2°c, and 4°c). tables on regional scale assessments for changes in temperature extremes, heavy precipitation and droughts, are provided in section 11.9. the srex, ar5, and sr1.5 assessed that there is evidence from observations that some extremes have changed since the mid 20th century, that some of the changes are a result of anthropogenic influences, and that some observed changes are projected to continue into the future. additionally, other changes are projected to emerge from natural climate variability under enhanced global warming (srex chapter 3; ar5 chapter 10). at the global scale, and also at the regional scale to some extent, many of the changes in extremes are a direct consequence of enhanced radiative forcing, and the associated global warming and/or resultant increase in the water holding capacity of the atmosphere, as well as changes in vertical stability and meridional temperature gradients that affect climate dynamics (see box 11.1). widespread observed and projected increases in the intensity and frequency of hot extremes, together with decreases in the intensity and frequency of cold extremes, are consistent with global and regional warming (section 11.3 and figure 11.2). extreme temperatures on land tend to increase more than the global mean temperature (figure 11.2), due in large part to the land sea warming contrast, and additionally to regional feedbacks in some regions (section 11.1.6). increases in the intensity of temperature extremes scale robustly, and in general linearly, with global warming across different geographical regions in projections up to 2100, with minimal dependence on emissions scenarios (section 11.2.4, figure 11.3,and cross chapter box 11.1; seneviratne et al., 2016; wartenburger et al., 2017; kharin et al., 2018). the frequency of hot temperature extremes (see figure 11.6), the number of heatwave days and the length of heatwave seasons in various regions also scale well, but nonlinearly (because of threshold effects, section 11.2.1), with global mean temperatures (wartenburger et al., 2017; y. sun et al., 2018a). changes in annual maximum one day precipitation (rx1day) are proportional to mean global surface temperature changes, at about 7% increase per 1°c of warming, that is, following the clausius clapeyron relation (box 11.1), both in observations (westra et al., 2013) and in future projections (kharin et al., 2013) at the global scale. extreme short duration precipitation in north america also scales with global surface temperature (prein et al., 2016b; c. li et al., 2019a). at the local and regional scales, changes in extremes are also strongly modulated and controlled by regional forcings and feedback mechanisms (section 11.1.6), whereby some regional forcings, for example, associated with changes in land cover and land use or aerosol emissions, can have non local or some (non homogeneous) global scale effects. in general, there is high confidence in changes in extremes due to global scale thermodynamic processes (i.e., global warming, mean moistening of the air) as the processes are well understood, while the confidence in those related to dynamic processes or regional and local forcing, including regional and local thermodynamic processes, is much lower due to multiple factors (see the following subsection and box 11.1). since ar5, the attribution of extreme weather events, or the investigation of changes in the frequency and/or magnitude of individual and local  and regional scale extreme weather events due to various drivers (section 11.2.3 and cross working group box 1.1) has provided evidence that greenhouse gases and other external forcings have affected individual extreme weather events. the events that have been studied are geographically uneven. for example, extreme rainfall events in the uk (schaller et al., 2016; vautard et al., 2016; otto et al., 2018b) or heatwaves in australia (king et al., 2014; perkins kirkpatrick et al., 2016; lewis et al., 2017b) have spurred more studies than other events. many highly impactful extreme weather events have not been studied in the event attribution framework. studies in the developing world are also generally lacking. this is due to various reasons (section 11.2) including lack of observational data, lack of reliable climate models and other problems (otto et al., 2020). while the events that have been studied are not representative of all extreme events that occurred, and results from these studies may also be subject to selection bias, the large number of event attribution studies provide evidence that changes in the properties of these local and individual events are in line with expected consequences of human influence on the climate and can be attributed to external drivers (section 11.9). figure 11.4 summarizes assessments of observed changes in temperature extremes, in heavy precipitation and in droughts, and their attribution in a map form. box 11.1 | thermodynamic and dynamic changes in extremes across scales changes in weather and climate extremes are determined by local exchanges in heat, moisture, and other related quantities (thermodynamic changes) and those associated with atmospheric and oceanic motions (dynamic changes). while thermodynamic and dynamic processes are interconnected, considering them separately helps to disentangle the roles of different processes contributing to changes in climate extremes (e.g., shepherd, 2014). temperature extremes an increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere leads to the warming of tropospheric air and the earth’s surface. this direct thermodynamic effect leads to warmer temperatures everywhere, with an increase in the frequency and intensity of warm extremes, and a decrease in the frequency and intensity of cold extremes. the initial increase in temperature leads to other thermodynamic responses and feedbacks affecting the atmosphere and the surface. these include an increase in the water vapour content of the atmosphere (water vapour feedback, see section 7.4.2.2) and a change in the vertical profile of temperature (lapse rate feedback, see section 7.4.2.2). while the water vapour feedback always amplifies the initial temperature increases (positive feedback), the lapse rate feedback amplifies near surface temperature increases (positive feedback) in mid  and high latitudes but reduces temperature increases (negative feedback) in tropical regions (pithan and mauritsen, 2014). thermodynamic responses and feedbacks also occur through surface processes. for instance, observations and model simulations show that temperature increases, including extreme temperatures, are amplified in areas where seasonal snow cover is reduced due to decreases in surface albedo (see section 11.3.1). in some mid latitude areas, temperature increases are amplified by the higher atmospheric evaporative demand (fu and feng, 2014; vicente serrano et al., 2020a) that results in a drying of soils in some regions (section 11.6), leading to increased sensible heat fluxes (soil moisture temperature feedback, see sections 11.1.6 and 11.3.1 for more background). other thermodynamic feedback processes include changes in the water use efficiency of plants under enhanced atmospheric carbon dioxide (co2) concentrations that can reduce the overall transpiration, and thus also enhance temperature in projections (sections 8.2.3.3, 11.1.6, 11.3 and 11.6). changes in the spatial distribution of temperatures can also affect temperature extremes by modifying the characteristics of weather patterns (e.g., suarez gutierrez et al., 2020a). for example, a robust thermodynamic effect of polar amplification is a weakened north south temperature gradient, which amplifies the warming of cold extremes in the northern hemisphere mid  and high latitudes because of the reduction of cold air advection (holmes et al., 2015; schneider et al., 2015; gross et al., 2020). much less robust is the dynamic effect of polar amplification (section 7.4.4.1) and the reduced low altitude meridional temperature gradient that has been linked to an increase in the persistence of weather patterns (e.g., heatwaves) and subsequent increases in temperature extremes (cross chapter box 10.1; francis and vavrus, 2012; coumou et al. , 2015, 2018; mann et al., 2017). precipitation extremes changes in temperature also control changes in water vapour through increases in evaporation and in the water holding capacity of the atmosphere (section 8.2.1). at the global scale, column integrated water vapour content increases roughly following the clausius clapeyron (c c) relation, with an increase of approximately 7% per 1°c of global mean surface warming (section 8.2.1). nonetheless, at regional scales, water vapour increases differ from this c c rate due to several reasons (section 8.2.2), including a change in weather regimes and limitations in moisture transport from the ocean, which warms more slowly than land (byrne and o’gorman, 2018). observational studies (fischer and knutti, 2016; sun et al., 2021) have shown that the observed rate of increased precipitation extremes is similar to the c c rate at the global scale. climate model projections show that the increase in water vapour leads to robust increases in precipitation extremes everywhere, with a magnitude that varies between 4% and 8% per 1°c of surface warming (thermodynamic contribution, box 11.1, figure 1b). at regional scales, climate models show that the dynamic contribution (box 11.1, figure 1c) can be substantial and strongly modify the projected rate of change of extreme precipitation (box 11.1, figure 1a) with large regions in the subtropics showing robust reductions and other areas (e.g., equatorial pacific) showing robust amplifications (box 11.1, figure 1c). however, the dynamic contributions show large differences across models and are more uncertain than thermodynamic contributions (box 11.1, figure 1c; shepherd, 2014; trenberth et al., 2015; pfahl et al., 2017). box 11.1, figure 1: multi model coupled model intercomparison project phase 5 (cmip5) mean fractional changes (in % per degree of warming). (a) changes in annual maximum precipitation (rx1day); (b) changes in rx1day due to the thermodynamic contribution; and (c) changes in rx1day due to the dynamic contribution estimated as the difference between the total changes and the thermodynamic contribution. changes were derived from a linear regression for the period 1950 2100. uncertainty is represented using the simple approach: no overlay indicates regions with high model agreement, where ≥80% of models (n=22) agree on the sign of change; diagonal lines indicate regions with low model agreement, where <80% of models agree on the sign of change. for more information on the simple approach, please refer to the cross chapter box (atlas 1. a detailed description of the estimation of dynamic and thermodynamic contributions is given in pfahl et al. (2017). figure adapted from pfahl et al. (2017), originally published innature climate change/springer nature. further details on data sources and processing are available in the chapter data table (table 11.sm.9). dynamic contributions can occur in response to changes in the vertical and horizontal distribution of temperature (thermodynamics) and can affect the frequency and intensity of synoptic and subsynoptic phenomena, including tropical cyclones, extratropical cyclones, fronts, mesoscale convective systems and thunderstorms. for example, the poleward shift and strengthening of the southern hemisphere mid latitude storm tracks (section 4.5.1) can modify the frequency or intensity of extreme precipitation. however, the precise way in which dynamic changes will affect precipitation extremes is unclear due to several competing effects (shaw et al., 2016; allan et al., 2020). box 11.1 extreme precipitation can also be enhanced by dynamic responses and feedbacks occurring within storms that result from the extra latent heat released from the thermodynamic increases in moisture(lackmann, 2013; willisonet al. , 2013; marcianoet al. , 2015; nieet al. , 2018; mizuta and endo, 2020). the extra latent heat released within storms has been shown to increase precipitation extremes by strengthening convective updrafts and the intensity of the cyclonic circulation (e.g., molnar et al., 2015; nie et al., 2018), although weakening effects have also been found in mid latitude cyclones (e.g., kirshbaum et al., 2017). additionally, the increase in latent heat can also suppress convection at larger scales due to atmospheric stabilization (nie et al., 2018; tandon et al., 2018; kendon et al., 2019). as these dynamic effects result from feedback processes within storms where convective processes are crucial, their proper representation might require improving the horizontal/vertical resolution, the formulation of parametrizations, or both, in current climate models (i.e., kendon et al. , 2014; westra et al. , 2014; ban et al. , 2015; meredith et al. , 2015; prein et al. , 2015; nie et al., 2018). droughts droughts are also affected by thermodynamic and dynamic processes (sections 8.2.3.3 and 11.6). thermodynamic processes affect droughts by increasing atmospheric evaporative demand (martin, 2018; gebremeskel haile et al., 2020; vicente serrano et al., 2020a) through changes in air temperature, radiation, wind speed, and relative humidity. dynamic processes affect droughts through changes in the occurrence, duration and intensity of weather anomalies, which are related to precipitation and the amount of sunlight (section 11.6). while atmospheric evaporative demand increases with warming, regional changes in aridity are affected by increasing land ocean warming contrast, vegetation feedbacks and responses to rising co2 concentrations, and dynamic shifts in the location of the wet and dry parts of the atmospheric circulation in response to climate change, as well as internal variability (byrne and o’gorman, 2015; kumar et al., 2015; allan et al., 2020). in summary, both thermodynamic and dynamic processes are involved in the changes of extremes in response to warming. anthropogenic forcing (e.g., increases in greenhouse gas concentrations) directly affects thermodynamic variables, including overall increases in high temperatures and atmospheric evaporative demand, and regional changes in atmospheric moisture, which intensify heatwaves, droughts and heavy precipitation events when they occur (high confidence). dynamic processes are often indirect responses to thermodynamic changes, are strongly affected by internal climate variability, and are also less well understood. as such, there is low confidence in how dynamic changes affect the location and magnitude of extreme events in a warming climate. atmospheric large scale circulation patterns and associated atmospheric dynamics are important determinants of the regional climate (chapter 10). as a result, they are also important to the magnitude, frequency, and duration of extremes (box 11.4). aspects of changes in large scale circulation patterns are assessed in chapters 2, 3, 4 and 8, and representative atmospheric and oceanic modes are described in annex iv. this subsection provides some general concepts, through a couple of examples, on why the uncertainty in the response of large scale circulation patterns to external forcing can cascade to uncertainty in the response of extremes to external forcings. details for specific types of extremes are covered in the relevant subsections. for example, the occurrence of the el niño southern oscillation (enso) influences precipitation regimes in many areas, favouring droughts in some regions and heavy rains in others (box 11.4). the extent and strength of the hadley circulation influences regions where tropical and extratropical cyclones occur, with important consequences for the characteristics of extreme precipitation, drought, and winds (section 11.7). changes in circulation patterns associated with land ocean heat contrast, which affect the monsoon circulations (section 8.4.2.4), lead to heavy precipitation along the coastal regions in east asia (freychet et al., 2015). as a result, changes in the spatial and/or temporal variability of the atmospheric circulation in response to warming affect characteristics of weather systems such as tropical cyclones (sharmila and walsh, 2018), storm tracks (shaw et al., 2016), and atmospheric rivers (section 11.7; waliser and guan, 2017). changes in weather systems come with changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme winds, extreme temperatures, and extreme precipitation, on the backdrop of thermodynamic responses of extremes to warming (box 11.1). floods are also affected by large scale circulation modes, including enso, the north atlantic oscillation (nao), the atlantic multi decadal variability (amv), and the pacific decadal variability (pdv) (kundzewicz et al., 2018; annex iv). aerosol forcing, through changes in patterns of sea surface temperatures (ssts), also affects circulation patterns and tropical cyclone activities (takahashi et al., 2017). in general, changes in atmospheric large scale circulation due to external forcing are uncertain, but there are some robust changes (sections 2.3.1.4 and 8.2.2.2). among them, there has been avery likely widening of the hadley circulation since the 1980s and the extratropical jets and cyclone tracks have likely been shifting poleward since the 1980s (section 2.3.1.4). the poleward expansion affects drought occurrence in some regions (section 11.6), and results in poleward shifts of tropical cyclones and storm tracks (sections 11.7.1 and 11.7.2). although it is very likely that the amplitude of enso variability will not robustly change over the 21st century (section 4.3.3.2), the frequency of extreme enso events (box 11.4), defined by precipitation threshold, is projected to increase with global warming (section 6.5 of srocc). this would have implications for projected changes in extreme events affected by enso, including droughts over wide areas (section 11.6; box 11.4) and tropical cyclones (section 11.7.1). a case study is provided for extreme enso events in 2015 2016 in box 11.4 to highlight the influence of enso on extremes. in summary, large scale atmospheric circulation patterns are important drivers for local and regional extremes. there is overall low confidence about future changes in the magnitude, frequency, and spatial distribution of these patterns, which contributes to uncertainty in projected responses of extremes, especially in the near term. at the local and regional scales, changes in extremes are strongly modulated by local and regional feedbacks (srccl, jia et al., 2019; seneviratne et al., 2013; miralles et al., 2014a; lorenz et al., 2016; vogel et al., 2017), changes in large scale circulation patterns (section 11.1.5), and regional forcings such as changes in land use or aerosol concentrations (chapters 3 and 7; findell et al., 2017; hirsch et al., 2017, 2018; thiery et al., 2017; z. wang et al., 2017b). in some cases, such responses may also include non local effects (e.g., de vrese et al., 2016; persad and caldeira, 2018; miralles et al., 2019; schumacher et al., 2019). regional scale forcing and feedbacks often affect temperature distributions asymmetrically, with generally higher effects for the hottest percentiles (section 11.3). land use can affect regional extremes, in particular hot extremes, in several ways (high confidence). this includes effects of land management (e.g., cropland intensification, irrigation, double cropping) as well as of land cover changes (deforestation; sections 11.3.2 and 11.6). some of these processes are not well represented (e.g., effects of forest cover on diurnal temperature cycle) or not integrated (e.g., irrigation) in climate models (sections 11.3.2 and 11.3.3). overall, the effects of land use forcing may be particularly relevant in the context of low emissions scenarios, which include large land use modifications, for instance those associated with the expansion of biofuels, bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, or re /afforestation to ensure negative emissions, as well as with the expansion of food production (e.g., sr1.5, chapter 3; cross chapter box 5.1 in this report; van vuuren et al., 2011; hirsch et al., 2018). there are also effects on the water cycle through freshwater use (section 11.6 and cross chapter box 5.1). aerosol forcing also has a strong regional footprint associated with regional emissions, which affects temperature and precipitation extremes (high confidence) (sections 11.3 and 11.4). from around the 1950s to 1980s, enhanced aerosol loadings led to regional cooling due to decreased global solar radiation (‘global dimming’) which was followed by a phase of ‘global brightening’ due to a reduction in aerosol loadings (chapters 3 and 7; wild et al., 2005). king et al. (2016b) show that aerosol induced cooling delayed the timing of a significant human contribution to record breaking heat extremes in some regions. however, the decreased aerosol loading since the 1990s has led to an accelerated warming of hot extremes in some regions. based on earth system model (esm) simulations, dong et al. (2017) suggest that a substantial fraction of the warming of the annual hottest days in western europe since the mid 1990s has been due to decreases in aerosol concentrations in the region. dong et al. (2016b) also identify non local effects of decreases in aerosol concentrations in western europe, which they estimate played a dominant role in the warming of the hottest daytime temperatures in north east asia since the mid 1990s, via induced coupled atmosphere land surface and cloud feedbacks, rather than a direct impact of anthropogenic aerosol changes on cloud condensation nuclei. in addition to regional forcings, regional feedback mechanisms can also substantially affect extremes (high confidence) (sections 11.3, 11.4 and 11.6). in particular, soil moisture feedbacks play an important role for extremes in several mid latitude regions, leading to a marked additional warming of hot extremes compared to mean global warming (seneviratne et al., 2016; bathiany et al., 2018; miralles et al., 2019), which is superimposed on the known land sea contrast in mean warming (vogel et al., 2017). soil moisture atmosphere feedbacks also affect drought development (section 11.6). additionally, effects of land surface conditions on circulation patterns have also been reported (koster et al., 2016; sato and nakamura, 2019). these regional feedbacks are also associated with substantial spread in models (section 11.3), and contribute to the identified higher spread of regional projections of temperature extremes as a function of global warming, compared with the spread resulting from the differences in projected global warming (global transient climate responses) in climate models (seneviratne and hauser, 2020). in addition, there are also feedbacks between soil moisture content and precipitation occurrence, generally characterized by negative spatial feedbacks and positive local feedbacks (taylor et al., 2012; guillod et al., 2015). climate model projections suggest that these feedbacks are relevant for projected changes in heavy precipitation (seneviratne et al., 2013). however, there is evidence that climate models do not capture the correct sign of the soil moisture precipitation feedbacks in several regions, in particular spatially, and/or in some cases also temporally (taylor et al., 2012; moon et al., 2019). in the northern hemisphere high latitudes, the snow  and ice albedo feedback, along with other factors, is projected to largely amplify temperature increases (e.g., pithan and mauritsen, 2014), although the effect on temperature extremes is still unclear. it also remains unclear whether snow albedo feedbacks in mountainous regions might have an effect on temperature and precipitation extremes (e.g., gobiet et al., 2014). however, these feedbacks play an important role in projected changes in high latitude warming (hall and qu, 2006), and, in particular, in changes in cold extremes in these regions (section 11.3). finally, extreme events may also regionally amplify one another. for example, this is the case for heatwaves and droughts, with high temperatures and stronger radiative forcing leading to drying tendencies on land due to increased evapotranspiration (section 11.6), and drier soils then inducing decreased evapotranspiration and higher sensible heat flux and hot temperatures (box 11.1, section 11.8; seneviratne et al., 2013; miralles et al., 2014a; vogel et al., 2017; zscheischler and seneviratne, 2017; s. zhou et al., 2019; kong et al., 2020). in summary, regional forcings and feedbacks   in particular those associated with land use and aerosol forcings   and soil moisture temperature, soil moisture precipitation, and snow/ice albedo temperature feedbacks, play an important role in modulating regional changes in extremes. these can also lead to a higher warming of extreme temperatures compared to mean temperature (high confidence), and possibly cooling in some regions (medium confidence). however, there is only medium confidence in the representation of the associated processes in state of the art esms. tables 11.1 and 11.2 provide a synthesis for observed and attributed changes in extremes, and projected changes in extremes, respectively, at different levels of global warming. this synthesis assessment focuses on the assessed range of observed and projected changes. in this chapter, the assessed likely range in a projection typically corresponds to the 90% range of the multi model ensemble spread to take into account other sources of uncertainty, unless stated otherwise. some low likelihood, high impact scenarios that can be of high relevance are addressed in box 11.2. building on the assessments from tables 11.1 and 11.2, figure 11.5 provides a synthesis on the level of confidence in the attribution and projection of changes in extremes. in the case where the signal in the observations is still relatively weak but the physical processes underlying the changes in extremes in response to human forcing are well understood, confidence in the projections would be higher than in the attribution because of strengthening in the signal with warming. but, when the observed signal is already strong and when observational evidence is consistent with model simulated responses, confidence in the projection may be lower than that in attribution if certain physical processes could be expected to behave differently in a much warmer world and under much higher greenhouse gas forcing, and in particular if such a behaviour is poorly understood. further synthesis for regional assessments are provided in figure 11.4 (event attribution), figure 11.6 (projected change in hot temperature extremes) and figure 11.7 (projected changes in precipitation extremes). a synthesis on regional assessments for observed, attributed and projected changes in extremes is provided in section 11.9 for all ar6 reference regions (see section 1.4.5 and figures 1.18 and atlas.2 for definitions of ar6 regions). phenomenon and direction of trend observed/detected trends since 1950 (for +0.5°c global warming or higher) human contribution to the observed trends since 1950 (for +0.5°c global warming or higher) warmer and/or more frequent hot days and nights over most land areas warmer and/or fewer cold days and nights over most land areas warm spells/heatwaves: increases in frequency or intensity over most land areas cold spells/cold waves: decreases in frequency or intensity over most land areas virtually certain on global scale {11.3} continental scale evidence: asia, australasia, europe, north america: very likely central and south america: high confidence africa: medium confidence {11.3, 11.9} extremely likely main contributor on global scale {11.3} continental scale evidence: north america, europe, australasia, asia: very likely central and south america: high confidence africa: medium confidence {11.3, 11.9} heavy precipitation events: increase in the frequency, intensity, and/or amount of heavy precipitation likely on global scale, over majority of land regions with good observational coverage {11.3} continental scale evidence: asia, europe, north america: likely africa, australasia, central and south america: low confidence {11.3, 11.9} likely main contributor to the observed intensification of heavy precipitation in land regions on global scale. {11.3} continental scale evidence: asia, europe, north america: likely africa, australasia, central and south america: low confidence {11.3, 11.9} increases in agricultural and ecological drought events medium confidence some regions {11.6, 11.9} increasing trends in agricultural and ecological droughts have been observed in ar6 regions on all continents (medium confidence) {11.6, 11.9} medium confidence some regions {11.6, 11.9} increase in precipitation associated with tropical cyclones (tcs) medium confidence {11.7} high confidence {11.7} increase in likelihood that a tc will be at major tc intensity (cat. 3 5) likely {11.7} medium confidence {11.7} changes in frequency of rapidly intensifying tropical cyclones likely {11.7} medium confidence {11.7} poleward migration of tropical cyclones in the western pacific medium confidence {11.7} medium confidence {11.7} decrease in tc forward motion over the usa it is likely that tc translation speed has slowed over the usa since 1900. {11.7} it is more likely than not that the slowdown of tc translation speed over the usa has contributions from anthropogenic forcing. {11.7} severe convective storms (tornadoes, hail, rainfall, wind, lightning) low confidence in past trends in hail and winds and tornado activity due to short length of high quality data records. {11.7} low confidence {11.7} increase in compound events likely increase in the probability of compound events. high confidence that concurrent heatwaves and droughts are becoming more frequent under enhanced greenhouse gas forcing at global scale. medium confidence that fire weather, i.e. compound hot, dry and windy events, have become more frequent in some regions. medium confidence that compound flooding risk has increased in some locations. {11.8} likely that human induced climate change has increased the probability of compound events. high confidence that human influence has increased the frequency of concurrent heatwaves and droughts. medium confidence that human influence has increased fire weather occurrence in some regions. low confidence that human influence has contributed to changes in compound events leading to flooding. {11.8} phenomenon and direction of trend projected changes at +1.5ºc global warming projected changes at +2°c global warming projected changes at +4°c global warming warmer and/or more frequent hot days and nights over most land areas warmer and/or fewer cold days and nights over most land areas warm spells/heatwaves; increases in frequency or intensity over most land areas cold spells/cold waves: decreases in frequency or intensity over most land areas virtually certain on global scale extremely likely on all continents highest increase of temperature of hottest days is projected in some mid latitude and semi arid regions, and the south american monsoon region, at about 1.5 times to twice the rate of global warming (high confidence){11.3, figure 11.3} highest increase of temperature of coldest days is projected in arctic regions, at about three times the rate of global warming (high confidence){11.3} continental scale projections: extremely likely : africa, asia, australasia, central and south america, europe, north america {11.3, 11.9} virtually certain on global scale virtually certain on all continents highest increase of temperature of hottest days is projected in some mid latitude and semi arid regions, and the south american monsoon region, at about 1.5 times to twice the rate of global warming (high confidence){11.3, figure 11.3} highest increase of temperature of coldest days is projected in arctic regions, at about three times the rate of global warming (high confidence){11.3} continental scale projections: virtually certain: africa, asia, australasia, central and south america, europe, north america {11.3, 11.9} virtually certain on global scale virtually certain on all continents highest increase of temperature of hottest days is projected in some mid latitude and semi arid regions, and the south american monsoon region, at about 1.5 times to twice the rate of global warming (high confidence){11.3, figure 11.3} highest increase of temperature of coldest days is projected in arctic regions, at about three times the rate of global warming (high confidence){11.3} continental scale projections: virtually certain: africa, asia, australasia, central and south america, europe, north america {11.3, 11.9} heavy precipitation events: increase in the frequency, intensity, and/or amount of heavy precipitation high confidence that increases take place in most land regions{11.4} very likely : asia, north america likely: africa, europe high confidence: central and south america medium confidence: australasia {11.4, 11.9} likely that increases take place in most land regions{11.4} extremely likely : asia, north america very likely : africa, europe likely: australasia, central and south america {11.4, 11.9} very likely that increases take place in most land regions{11.4} virtually certain: africa, asia, north america extremely likely : central and south america, europe very likely australasia {11.4, 11.9} agricultural and ecological droughts: increases in intensity and/or duration of drought events more regions affected by increases in agricultural and ecological droughts compared to observed changes (high confidence). {11.6, 11.9} decreased precipitation is going to increase the severity of drought in some regions; atmospheric evaporative demand will continue to increase compared to pre industrial conditions and lead to further increases in agricultural and ecological droughts due to increased evapotranspiration in some regions. (high confidence) {11.6, 11.9} more regions affected by increases in agricultural and ecological droughts than at 1.5°c of global warming (high confidence). {11.6, 11.9} decreased precipitation is going to increase the severity of drought in some regions; atmospheric evaporative demand will continue to increase compared to pre industrial conditions and lead to further increases in agricultural and ecological droughts due to increased evapotranspiration in some regions. (high confidence) {11.6, 11.9} more regions affected by increases in agricultural and ecological droughts than at 2°c of global warming (very likely) . {11.6, 11.9} decreased precipitation is going to increase the severity of drought in several regions; atmospheric evaporative demand will continue to increase compared to pre industrial conditions and lead to further increases in agricultural and ecological droughts due to increased evapotranspiration in several regions. (high confidence) {11.6, 11.9} increase in precipitation associated with tropical cyclones (tcs) high confidence in a projected increase of tc rain rates at the global scale with amedian projected increase due to human emissions of about 11%. {11.7} medium confidence that rain rates will increase in every basin. {11.7} high confidence in a projected increase of tc rain rates at the global scale with a median projected increase due to human emissions of about 14%. {11.7} medium confidence that rain rates will increase in every basin. {11.7} high confidence in a projected increase of tc rain rates at the global scale with a median projected increase due to human emissions of about 28%. {11.7} medium confidence that rain rates will increase in every basin. {11.7} increase in mean tc lifetime maximum wind speed (intensity) medium confidence {11.7} high confidence {11.7} high confidence {11.7} increase in likelihood that a tc will reach major tc intensity (category 4 5) high confidence for an increase in the proportion of tcs that reach the strongest (category 4 5) levels. the median projected increase in this proportion is about 10%. {11.7} high confidence for an increase in the proportion of tcs that reach the strongest (category 4 5) levels. the median projected increase in this proportion is about 13%. {11.7} high confidence for an increase in the proportion of tcs that reach the strongest (category 4 5) levels. the median projected increase in this proportion is about 20%. {11.7} severe convective storms high confidence that the average and maximum rain rates associated with severe convective storms increase in some regions, including the usa. high confidence that convective available potential energy (cape) increases in response to global warming in the tropics and subtropics, suggesting more favourable environments for severe convective storms. medium confidence that the frequency of spring severe convective storms is projected to increase in the usa, leading to a lengthening of the severe convective storm season. {11.7} increase in compound events (frequency, intensity) likely that probability of compound events will continue to increase with global warming. high confidence that concurrent heatwaves and droughts will continue to increase under higher levels of global warming, with higher frequency/intensity with every additional 0.5°c of global warming. high confidence that fire weather, (i.e. compound hot, dry and windy events), will become more frequent in some regions at higher levels of global warming. high confidence that compound flooding at the coastal zone will increase under higher levels of global warming. {11.8} box 11.2 | changes in low likelihood, high impact extremes the srex (chapter 3) assigned low confidence to changes in low likelihood, high impact (llhi) events (termed ‘low probability high impact scenarios‘). such events are often not anticipated and thus sometimes referred to as ‘surprises’. there are several types of llhi events. abrupt changes in mean climate are addressed in chapter 4. unanticipated llhi events can either result from tipping points in the climate system (section 1.4.4.3), such as the shutdown of the atlantic thermohaline circulation (srocc chapter 6; collins et al., 2019) or the drydown of the amazonian rainforest (sr1.5 chapter 3, hoegh guldberg et al., 2018; drijfhout et al., 2015), or from uncertainties in climate processes, including climate feedbacks, that may enhance or damp extremes either related to global or regional climate responses (seneviratne et al., 2018a; sutton, 2018). the low confidence does not by itself exclude the possibility of such events occuring, rather it indicates a poor state of knowledge. such outcomes, while improbable, could be associated with very high impacts, and are thus highly relevant from a risk perspective (see section 1.4.3 and box 11.4; sutton, 2018, 2019). alternatively, high impacts can occur when different extremes occur at the same time, or in short succession at the same location, or in several regions with shared vulnerability (e.g., food basket regions gaupp et al., 2019). these ‘compound events’ are assessed in section 11.8, and box 11.4 provides a case study example. difficulties persist in determining the likelihood of occurrence and time frame of potential tipping points and llhi events. however, new literature has emerged on unanticipated and llhi events. there are some events that are sufficiently rare that they have not been observed in meteorological records, but whose occurrence is nonetheless plausible within the current state of the climate system   see examples below and in mccollum et al. (2020). the rare nature of such events and the limited availability of relevant data makes it difficult to estimate their occurrence probability and thus gives little evidence on whether to include such hypothetical events in planning decisions and risk assessments. the estimation of such potential surprises is often limited to events that have historical analogues (including before the instrumental records began, wetter et al., 2014), albeit the magnitude of the event may differ. additionally, there is also a limitation of available resources to exhaust all plausible trajectories of the climate system. as a result, there will still be events that cannot be anticipated. these events can be surprises to many in that the events have not been experienced, although their occurrence could be inferred by statistical means or physical modelling approaches (chen et al., 2017; van oldenborgh et al., 2017; harrington and otto, 2018a). another approach focusing on the estimation of low probability events and of events whose likelihood of occurrence is unknown consists in using physical climate models to create a physically self consistent storyline of plausible extreme events and assessing their impacts and driving factors in past (section 11.2.3) or future conditions (section 11.2.4) (hazeleger et al. , 2015; shepherd, 2016; zappa and shepherd, 2017; cheng et al. , 2018; shepherd et al. , 2018; sutton, 2018; schaller et al. , 2020; wehrli et al., 2020). in many parts of the world, observational data are limited to 50 60 years. this means that the chance to observe an extreme event at a particular location that occurs once in several hundred or more years is small. thus, when a very extreme event occurs, it becomes a surprise to many (bao et al., 2017; mccollum et al., 2020), and very rare events are often associated with high impacts(van oldenborghet al. , 2017; philipet al. , 2018b; tozeret al. , 2020). attributing and projecting very rare events in a particular location by assessing their likelihood of occurrence within the same larger region and climate thus provides another way to make quantitative assessments regarding events that are extremely rare locally. some examples of such events include: one factor making such events hard to anticipate is the fact that we now live in a non stationary climate, and that the framework of reference for adaptation is continuously moving. as an example, the concurrent heatwaves that occurred across the northern hemisphere in the summer of 2018 were considered very unusual and were unprecedented given the total area that was concurrently affected(drouardet al. , 2019; kornhuberet al. , 2019; toretiet al. , 2019; vogelet al. , 2019); however, the probability of this event under 1°c global warming was found to be about 16% (vogel et al., 2019), which is not particularly low. similarly, the 2013 summer temperature over eastern china was the hottest on record at the time, but it had an estimated recurrence interval of about four years in the climate of 2013 (sun et al., 2014). furthermore, when other aspects of the risk, vulnerability, and exposure are historically high or have recently increased (see wgii, chapter 16, section 16.4), relatively moderate extremes can have very high impacts (otto et al., 2015b; philip et al., 2018b). as warming continues, the climate moves further away from its historical state we are familiar with, resulting in an increased likelihood of unprecedented events and surprises. this is particularly the case under high global warming levels   for example, the climate of the late 21st century under high emissions scenarios, above 4°c of global warming (cross chapter box 11.1). another factor highlighted in section 11.8 and box 11.4 making events high impact and difficult to anticipate is that several locations under moderate warming levels could be affected simultaneously, or very repeatedly by different types of extremes (mora et al., 2018; gaupp et al., 2019; vogel et al., 2019). box 11.4 shows that concurrent events at different locations, which can lead to major impacts across the world, can also result from the combination of anomalous circulation or natural variability (e.g., el niño southern oscillation) patterns with amplification of resulting responses to human induced global warming. also multivariate extremes at single locations pose specific challenges to anticipation (section 11.8), with low likelihoods in the current climate but the probability of occurrence of such compound events strongly increasing with increasing global warming levels (vogel et al., 2020a). therefore, in order to estimate whether, and at what level of global warming, very high impacts arising from extremes would occur, the spatial extent of extremes and the potential of compounding extremes need to be assessed. sections 11.3, 11.4, 11.7 and 11.8 highlight increasing evidence that temperature extremes, higher intensity precipitation accompanying tropical cyclones, and compound events such as dry/hot conditions conducive to wildfire or storm surges resulting from sea level rise and heavy precipitation events, pose widespread threats to societies already at relatively low warming levels. studies have already shown that the probability for some recent extreme events is so small in the undisturbed world that these events were extremely unlikely to occur without human influence (section 11.2.4). box 11.2, table 1, provides examples of projected changes in llhi extremes (single extremes, compound events) of potential relevance for impact and adaptation assessments showing that today’s very rare events can become commonplace in a warmer future. box 11.2, table 1 | examples of changes in low likelihood, high impact extreme conditions (single extremes, compound events) at different global warming levels. +1°c (present day) +1.5°c +2°c +3°c and higher risk ratio for annual hottest daytime temperature (txx) with 1% of probability under present day warming (+1°c) (kharin et al., 2018): global land 1 3.3 (i.e., 230% higher probability) 8.2 (i.e., 720% higher probability) not assessed risk ratio for heavy precipitation events (rx1day) with 1% of probability under present day warming (+1°c) (kharin et al., 2018): global land 1 1.2 (i.e., 20% higher probability) 1.5 (i.e., 50% higher probability) not assessed number of 1 5 day duration extreme floods with 1% of probability under present day warming (+1°c) (h. ali et al., 2019) indian subcontinent up to 3 in individual locations up to 5 in individual locations 2 6 in most locations up to 12 in individual locations (4°c) probability of ‘extreme extremes’ hot days with 1/1000 probability at the end of the 20th century (vogel et al., 2020a): global land about 20 days over 20 years in most locations about 50 days in 20 years in most locations about 150 days in 20 years in most locations about 500 days in 20 years in most locations (3°c) probability of co occurrence in the same week of hot days with 1/1000 probability and dry days with 1/1000 probability at the end of the 20th century (vogel et al., 2020a): amazon 0% probability about one week in 20 years about 4 to 5 weeks in 20 years more than 9 weeks in 20 years (3°c) projected soil moisture drought duration per year (samaniego et al., 2018): mediterranean region 41 days (+46% compared to the late 20th century) 58 days (+107% compared to the late 20th century) 71 days (+154% compared to the late 20th century) 125 days (+346% compared to the late 20th century) (3°c) increase in days exposed to dangerous extreme heat   measured in health heat index (hhi) (q. sun et al., 2019) global land not assessed, baseline is 1981 2000 1.6 times higher risk of experiencing heat >40.6 2.3 times higher risk of experiencing heat >40.6 around 80% of land area exposed to dangerous heat, tropical regions 1/3 of the year (4°c) increase in regional mean fire season length (q. sun et al., 2019; xu et al., 2020) global land not assessed, baseline is 1981 2000 6.2 days 9.5 days about 50 days (4°c) in summary, the future occurrence of llhi events linked to climate extremes is generally associated with low confidence, but cannot be excluded, especially at global warming levels above 4°c. compound events, including concurrent extremes, are a factor increasing the probability of llhi events (high confidence). with increasing global warming, some compound events with low likelihood in past and current climate will become more frequent, and there is a higher chance of historically unprecedented events and surprises (high confidence). however, even extreme events that do not have a particularly low probability in the present climate (at more than 1°c of global warming) can be perceived as surprises because of the pace of global warming (high confidence). this section provides an assessment of observational data and methods used in the analysis and attribution of climate change specific to weather and climate extremes. it also introduces some concepts used in presenting future projections of extremes. later sections (sections 11.3 11.8) also provide additional assessments on relevant observational datasets and model validation specific to the type of extremes to be assessed. general background on climate modelling is provided in chapters 4 and 10. in the literature, an event is generally considered extreme if the value of a variable exceeds (or lies below) a threshold. the thresholds have been defined in different ways, leading to differences in the meaning of extremes that may share the same name. for example, two sets of metrics for the frequency of hot/warm days have been used in the literature. one set counts the number of days when maximum daily temperature is above a relative threshold defined as the 90th or higher percentile of maximum daily temperature for the calendar day over a base period. an event based on such a definition can occur at any time of the year, and the impact of such an event would differ depending on the season. the other set counts the number of days in which maximum daily temperature is above an absolute threshold such as 35°c, because exceeding this temperature can sometimes cause health impacts (however, these impacts may depend on location and whether ecosystems and the population are adapted to such temperatures). while both types of hot extreme indices have been used to analyse changes in the frequency of hot/warm events, they represent different events that occur at different times of the year, possibly affected by different types of processes and mechanisms, and possibly also associated with different impacts. changes in extremes have also been examined from two perspectives: changes in the frequency for a given magnitude of extremes; or changes in the magnitude for a particular return period (frequency). changes in the probability of extremes (e.g., temperature extremes) depend on the rarity of the extreme event that is assessed, with a larger change in probability associated with a rarer event (e.g., kharin et al., 2018). however, changes in the magnitude represented by the return levels of the extreme events may not be as sensitive to the rarity of the event. while the answers to the two different questions are related, their relevance may differ for distinct audiences. conclusions regarding the respective contribution of greenhouse gas forcing to changes in magnitude versus frequency of extremes may also differ (otto et al., 2012). correspondingly, the sensitivity of changes in extremes to increasing global warming is also dependent on the definition of the considered extremes. in the case of temperature extremes, changes in magnitude have been shown to often depend linearly on global surface temperature (seneviratne et al., 2016; wartenburger et al., 2017), while changes in frequency tend to be nonlinear and can, for example, be exponential for increasing global warming levels (fischer and knutti, 2015; kharin et al., 2018). when similar damage occurs once a fixed threshold is exceeded, it is more important to ask a question regarding changes in the frequency. but when the exceedance of this fixed threshold becomes a normal occurrence in the future, this can lead to a saturation in the change of probability (harrington and otto, 2018a). also, if the impact of an event increases with the intensity of the event, it would be more relevant to examine changes in the magnitude. finally, adaptation to climate change might change the relevant thresholds over time, although such aspects are still rarely integrated in the assessment of projected changes in extremes. framing is considered when forming the assessments of this chapter, including how extremes are defined and how the questions are asked in the literature . studies of past and future changes in weather and climate extremes, and in the mean state of the climate, use the same original sources of weather and climate observations, including in situ observations, remotely sensed data, and derived data products such as reanalyses. sections 2.3 and 10.2 assess various aspects of these data sources and data products from the perspective of their general use, and in the analysis of changes in the mean state of the climate in particular. building on these previous chapters, this subsection highlights particular aspects that are related to extremes and are most relevant to the assessment of this chapter. the srex (chapter 3, seneviratne et al., 2012) and ar5 (chapter 2, hartmann et al., 2013) addressed critical issues regarding the quality and availability of observed data and their relevance for the assessment of changes in extremes. extreme weather and climate events occur on time scales of hours (e.g., convective storms that produce heavy precipitation) to days (e.g., tropical cyclones, heatwaves), to seasons and years (e.g., droughts). a robust determination of long term changes in these events can have different requirements for the spatial and temporal scales and sample size of the data. in general, it is more difficult to determine long term changes for events of fairly large temporal duration, such as ‘megadroughts’ that last several years or longer (e.g., ault et al., 2014), because of the limitations of the observational sample size. literature that studies changes in extreme precipitation and temperature often uses indices representing specifics of extremes that are derived from daily precipitation and temperature values. station based indices would have the same issues as those for the mean climate regarding the quality, availability, and homogeneity of the data. for the purpose of constructing regional information and/or for comparison with model outputs, such as model evaluation, and detection and attribution, these station based indices are often interpolated onto regular grids. two different approaches, involving two different orders of operation, have been used in producing such gridded datasets. in some cases, such as for the hadex3 dataset (dunn et al., 2020), indices of extremes are computed using time series directly derived from stations first, and are then gridded over the space. as the indices are computed at the station level, the gridded data products represent point estimates of the indices averaged over the spatial scale of the grid box. in other instances, daily values of station observations are first gridded (e.g., contractor et al., 2020a), and the interpolated values can then be used to compute various indices. depending on the station density, values for extremes computed from data gridded this way represent extremes of spatial scales anywhere from the size of the grid box to a point. in regions with high station density (e.g., north america, europe), the gridded values are closer to extremes of area means and are thus more appropriate for comparisons with extremes estimated from climate model output, which is often considered to represent areal means (chen and knutson, 2008; gervais et al., 2014; avila et al., 2015; di luca et al., 2020b). in regions with very limited station density (e.g., africa), the gridded values are closer to point estimates of extremes. the difference in spatial scales among observational data products and model simulations needs to be carefully accounted for when interpreting the comparison among different data products. for example, the average annual maximum daily maximum temperature (txx) over land computed from the original era interim reanalysis (at 0.75° resolution) is about 0.4°c warmer than that computed when the era interim dataset is upscaled to the resolution of 2.5° × 3.75° (di luca et al., 2020). extreme indices computed from various reanalysis data products have been used in some studies, but reanalysis extreme statistics have not been rigorously compared to observations (donat et al., 2016a). in general, changes in temperature extremes from various reanalyses were most consistent with gridded observations after about 1980, but larger differences were found during the pre satellite era (donat et al., 2014b). overall, lower agreement across reanalysis datasets was found for extreme precipitation changes, although temporal and spatial correlations against observations were found to be still significant. in regions with sparse observations (e.g., africa and parts of south america), there is generally less agreement for extreme precipitation between different reanalysis products, indicating a consequence of the lack of an observational constraint in these regions (donat et al., 2014b, 2016a). more recent reanalyses, such as era5 (hersbach et al., 2020), seem to have improved over previous products, at least over some regions (e.g., mahto and mishra, 2019; gleixner et al., 2020; sheridan et al., 2020). caution is needed when reanalysis data products are used to provide additional information about past changes in these extremes in regions where observations are generally lacking. satellite remote sensing data have been used to provide information about precipitation extremes because several products provide data at sub daily resolution for precipitation, for example, tropical rainfall measuring mission (trmm; maggioni et al., 2016) and clouds, for example, himawari (bessho et al., 2016; chen et al., 2019). however, satellites do not observe the primary atmospheric state variables directly and polar orbiting satellites do not observe any given place at all times. hence, their utility as a substitute for high frequency (i.e., daily) ground based observations is limited. for instance, timmermans et al. (2019) found little relationship between the timing of extreme daily and five day precipitation in satellite and gridded station data products over the usa. box 11.3 | extremes in paleoclimate archives compared to instrumental records examining extremes in pre instrumental information can help to put events occurring in the instrumental record (referred to as ‘observed’) in a longer term context. this box focuses on extremes in the common era (ce, the last 2000 years), because there is generally higher confidence in pre instrumental information gathered from the more recent archives from the common era than from earlier evidence. it addresses evidence of extreme events in paleoreconstructions, documentary evidence (such as grape harvest data, religious documents, newspapers, and logbooks) and model based analyses, and whether observed extremes have or have not been exceeded in the common era. this box provides overviews of: (i) ar5 assessments; (ii) types of evidence assessed here; evidence of: (iii) droughts; (iv) temperature extremes; (v) paleofloods; and (vi) paleotempests; and (vii) a summary. (chapter 5 of ar5 (masson delmotte et al., 2013) concluded with high confidence that droughts of greater magnitude and of longer duration than those observed in the instrumental period occurred in many regions during the preceding millennium. there was high confidence in evidence that floods during the past five centuries in northern and central europe, the western mediterranean region, and eastern asia were of a greater magnitude than those observed instrumentally, and medium confidence in evidence that floods in the near east, india and central north america were comparable to modern observed floods. while ar5 assessed 20th century summer temperatures compared to those reconstructed in the common era, it did not assess shorter duration temperature extremes. many factors affect confidence in information on pre instrumental extremes. first, the geographical coverage of paleoclimate reconstructions of extremes is not spatially uniform (smerdon and pollack, 2016) and depends on both the availability of archives and records, which are environmentally dependent, and also the differing attention and focus from the scientific community. in australia, for example, the paleoclimate network is sparser than for other regions, such as asia, europe and north america, and synthesized products rely on remote proxies and assumptions about the spatial coherence of precipitation between remote climates (cook et al., 2016c; freund et al., 2017). second, pre instrumental evidence of extremes may be focused on understanding archetypal extreme events, such as the climatic consequences of the 1815 eruption of mount tambora, indonesia (veale and endfield, 2016). these studies provide narrow evidence of extremes in response to specific forcings (m. li et al., 2017) for specific epochs. third, natural archives may provide information about extremes in one season only and may not represent all extremes of the same types. evidence of shorter duration extreme event types, such as floods and tropical storms, is further restricted by the comparatively low chronological controls and temporal resolution (e.g., monthly, seasonal, yearly, multiple years) of most archives compared to the events (e.g., minutes to days). natural archives may be sensitive only to intense environmental disturbances, and so only sporadically record short duration or small spatial scale extremes. interpreting sedimentary records as evidence of past short duration extremes is also complex and requires a clear understanding of natural processes (wilhelm et al. , 2019). for example, paleoflood reconstructions of flood recurrence and intensity produced from geological evidence (e.g., river and lake sediments), speleothems (denniston and luetscher, 2017), botanical evidence (e.g., flood damage to trees, or tree ring reconstructions), and floral and faunal evidence (e.g., diatom fossil assemblages) require understanding of sediment sources and flood mechanisms. pre instrumental records of tropical storm intensity and frequency (also called paleotempest records) derived from overwash deposits of coastal lake and marsh sediments are difficult to interpret. many factors have an impact on whether disturbances are deposited in archives (muller et al., 2017) and deposits may provide sporadic and incomplete preservation histories (e.g., tamura et al., 2018). overall, the most complete pre instrumental evidence of extremes occurs for long duration, large spatial scale extremes, such as for multi year meteorological droughts or seasonal  and regional scale temperature extremes. additionally, more precise insights into recent extremes emerge where multiple studies have been undertaken, compared to the confidence in extremes reported at single sites or in single studies, which may not necessarily be representative of large scale changes, or for reconstructions that synthesize multiple proxies over large areas (e.g., drought atlases). multiproxy synthesis products combine paleoclimate temperature reconstructions and cover sub continental  to hemispheric scale regions to provide continuous records of the common era(e.g., ahmedet al. , 2013; neukomet al. , 2014 for temperature). there is high confidence in the occurrence of long duration and severe drought events during the common era for many locations, although their severity compared to recent drought events differs between locations and the lengths of reconstruction provided. recent observed drought extremes in some regions   such as the eastern mediterranean levant (cook et al., 2016a), california in the usa(cook et al., 2014b; griffin and anchukaitis, 2014), and in the andes (garreaud et al. , 2017; domínguez castro et al. , 2018)   do not have precedents within the multi century periods reconstructed in these studies, in terms of duration and/or severity. in some regions (in south western north america(asmerom et al., 2013; cook et al., 2015), the great plains region (cook et al., 2004), the middle east (kaniewski et al., 2012), and china (gou et al., 2015)), recent drought extremes may have been exceeded in the common era. in further locations, there is conflicting evidence for the severity of pre instrumental droughts compared to observed extremes, depending on the length of the reconstruction and the seasonal perspective provided(see cooket al. , 2016c; freundet al. , 2017 for australia). there can also be differing conclusions for the severity, or even the occurrence, of specific individual pre instrumental droughts when different evidence is compared (e.g., wetter et al., 2014; büntgen et al., 2015). there is medium confidence that the magnitudes of large scale, seasonal scale extreme high temperatures in observed records exceed those reconstructed over the common era in some locations, such as central europe. in one example, multiple studies have examined the unusualness of present day european summer temperature records in a long term context, particularly in comparison to the exceptionally warm year of 1540 ce in central europe. several studies indicate that recent extreme summers (2003 and 2010) in europe have been unusually warm in the context of the last 500 years (barriopedro et al., 2011; wetter and pfister, 2013; wetter et al., 2014; orth et al., 2016b), or longer (luterbacher et al., 2016). others studies show that summer temperatures in central europe in 1540 were warmer than the present day (1966 2015) mean, but note that it is difficult to assess whether or not the 1540 summer was warmer than observed record extreme temperatures (orth et al., 2016b). there is high confidence that the magnitude of floods over the common era exceeded observed records in some locations, including central europe and eastern asia. recent literature supports the ar5 assessments of floods (masson delmotte et al., 2013). for example, high temporally resolved records provide evidence of common era floods exceeding the probable maximum flood levels in the upper colorado river, usa (greenbaum et al., 2014) and peak discharges that are double gauge levels along the middle yellow river, china (liu et al., 2014). further studies demonstrate pre instrumental or early instrumental differences in flood frequency compared to the instrumental period, including reconstructions of high and low flood frequency in the european alps (e.g., swierczynski et al., 2013; amann et al., 2015) and himalayas (ballesteros cánovas et al., 2017). the combination of extreme historical flood episodes determined from documentary evidence also increases confidence in the determination of flood frequency and magnitude, compared to using geomorphological archives alone (kjeldsen et al., 2014). in regions, such as europe and china, that have rich historical flood documents, there is strong evidence of high magnitude flood events over pre instrumental periods (kjeldsen et al., 2014; benito et al., 2015; macdonald and sangster, 2017). a key feature of paleoflood records is variability in flood recurrence at centennial timescales (wilhelm et al., 2019), although constraining climate flood relationships remains challenging. pre instrumental floods often occurred in considerably different contexts in terms of land use, irrigation, and infrastructure, and may not provide direct insight into modern river systems, which further prevents long term assessments of flood changes being made based on these sources. there is medium confidence that periods of both more and less tropical cyclone activity (frequency or intensity) than observed occurred over the common era in many regions. paleotempest studies cover a limited number of locations that are predominantly coastal, and hence provide information on specific locations that cannot be extrapolated basin wide (see muller et al., 2017). in some locations, such as the gulf of mexico and the new england, usa, coast, similarly intense storms to those observed recently have occurred multiple times over centennial timescales (donnelly et al., 2001; bregy et al., 2018). further research focused on the frequency of tropical storm activity. extreme storms occurred considerably more frequently in particular periods of the common era, compared to the instrumental period in north east queensland, australia (nott et al., 2009; haig et al., 2014), and the gulf coast (e.g., brandon et al., 2013; lin et al., 2014). the probability of finding an unprecedented extreme event increases with a longer length of past record keeping, in the absence of longer term trends. thus, as a record is extended to the past based on paleoreconstruction, there is a higher chance of very rare extreme events having occurred at some time prior to instrumental records. such an occurrence is not, in itself, evidence of a change, or lack of a change, in the magnitude or the likelihood of extremes in the past or in the instrumental period at regional and local scales. yet, the systematic collection of paleoclimate records over wide areas may provide evidence of changes in extremes. in one study, extended evidence of the last millennium from observational data and paleoclimate reconstructions using tree rings indicates that human activities affected the worldwide occurrence of droughts as early as the beginning of the 20th century (marvel et al., 2019). in summary, there is low confidence in overall changes in extremes derived from paleo archives. there is high confidence that long duration and severe drought events occurred at many locations during the last 2000 years. there is also high confidence that high magnitude flood events occurred at some locations during the last 2000 years, but overall changes in infrastructure and human water management make the comparison with present day records difficult. but these isolated paleo drought and paleo flood events are not evidence of a change, or lack of a change, in the magnitude or the likelihood of relevant extremes. attribution science concerns the identification of causes for changes in characteristics of the climate system (e.g., trends, single extreme events). a general overview and summary of methods of attribution science is provided in the cross working group box 1.1. trend detection using optimal fingerprinting methods is a well established field, and has been assessed in ar5 (chapter 10, bindoff et al., 2013), and section 3.2.1 of this report. there are specific challenges when applying optimal fingerprinting to the detection and attribution of trends in extremes and on regional scales where the lower signal to noise ratio is a challenge. in particular, the method generally requires the data to follow a normal (gaussian) distribution, which is often not the case for extremes. however, recent studies showed that extremes can be transformed to a gaussian distribution, for example, by averaging over space, so that optimal fingerprinting techniques can still be used (wen et al., 2013; zhang et al., 2013; wan et al., 2019). non stationary extreme value distributions, which allow for the detailed detection and attribution of regional trends in temperature extremes, have also been used (z. wang et al., 2017a). apart from the detection and attribution of trends in extremes, new approaches have been developed to answer the question of whether, and to what extent, external drivers have altered the probability and intensity of an individual extreme event (nasem, 2016). in ar5, there was an emerging consensus that the role of external drivers of climate change in specific extreme weather events could be estimated and quantified in principle, but related assessments were still confined to particular case studies, often using a single model, and typically focusing on high impact events with a clear attributable signal. however, since ar5, the attribution of extreme weather events has emerged as a growing field of climate research with an increasing body of literature (see series of supplements to the annual state of the climate report (peterson et al., 2012, 2013a; herring et al., 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018), including the number of approaches to examining extreme events(described in easterling et al., 2016; otto, 2017; stott et al., 2016)). a commonly used approach   often called the risk based approach in the literature, and referred to here as the ‘probability based approach’   produces statements such as ‘anthropogenic climate change made this event type twice as likely ’ or ‘anthropogenic climate change made this event 15% more intense’. this is done by estimating probability distributions of the index characterizing the event in today’s climate, as well as in a counterfactual climate, and either comparing intensities for a given occurrence probability (e.g., 1 in 100 year event) or probabilities for a given magnitude (see faq 11.3). there are a number of different analytical methods encompassed in the probability based approach, building on observations and statistical analyses (e.g., van oldenborgh et al., 2012), optimal fingerprint methods (sun et al., 2014), regional climate and weather forecast models (e.g., schaller et al., 2016), global climate models (gcms) (e.g., lewis and karoly, 2013), and large ensembles of atmosphere only gcms (e.g., lott et al., 2013). a key component in any event attribution analysis is the level of conditioning on the state of the climate system. in the least conditional approach, the combined effect of the overall warming and changes in the large scale atmospheric circulation are considered and often utilize fully coupled climate models (sun et al., 2014). other more conditional approaches involve prescribing certain aspects of the climate system. these range from prescribing the pattern of the surface ocean change at the time of the event (e.g., hoerling et al., 2013, 2014), often using atmospheric model intercomparison project (amip) style global models, where the choice of sea surface temperature and ice patterns influences the attribution results (sparrow et al., 2018), to prescribing the large scale circulation of the atmosphere and using weather forecasting models or methods (e.g., pall et al., 2017; patricola and wehner, 2018; wehner et al., 2018a). these highly conditional approaches have also been called ‘storylines’ (cross working group box 1.1; shepherd, 2016) and can be useful when applied to extreme events that are too rare to otherwise analyse, or where the specific atmospheric conditions were central to the impact. these methods are also used to enable the use of very high resolution simulations in cases were lower resolution models do not simulate the regional atmospheric dynamics well (shepherd, 2016; shepherd et al., 2018). however, the imposed conditions limit an overall assessment of the anthropogenic influence on an event, as the fixed aspects of the analysis may also have been affected by climate change. for instance, the specified initial conditions in the highly conditional hindcast attribution approach often applied to tropical cyclones (e.g., takayabu et al., 2015; patricola and wehner, 2018) permit only a conditional statement about the magnitude of the storm if similar large scale meteorological patterns could have occurred in a world without climate change, thus precluding any attribution statement about the change in frequency if used in isolation. combining conditional assessments of changes in the intensity with a multi model approach does allow for the latter as well (shepherd, 2016). the outcome of event attribution is dependent on the definition of the event (leach et al., 2020), as well as the framing (otto et al., 2016; christidis et al., 2018; jézéquel et al., 2018) and uncertainties in observations and modelling. observational uncertainties arise in estimating the magnitude of an event as well as its rarity (angélil et al., 2017). results of attribution studies can also be very sensitive to the choice of climate variables (sippel and otto, 2014; wehner et al., 2016). attribution statements are also dependent on the spatial (uhe et al., 2016; cattiaux and ribes, 2018; kirchmeier‐young et al., 2019) and temporal (harrington, 2017; leach et al., 2020) extent of event definitions, as events of different scales involve different processes (w. zhang et al., 2020) and large scale averages generally yield higher attributable changes in magnitude or probability due to the smoothing out of noise. in general, confidence in attribution statements for large scale heat and lengthy extreme precipitation events have higher confidence than shorter and more localized events, such as extreme storms, an aspect also relevant for determining the emergence of signals in extremes or the confidence in projections (see also cross chapter box atlas.1). the reliability of the representation of the event in question in the climate models used in a study is essential (angélil et al., 2016; herger et al., 2018). extreme events characterized by atmospheric dynamics that stretch the capabilities of current generation models (section 10.3.3.4; shepherd, 2014; woollings et al., 2018) limit the applicability of the probability based approach of event attribution. the lack of model evaluation, in particular in early event attribution studies, has led to criticism of the emerging field of attribution science as a whole (trenberth et al., 2015) and of individual studies (angélil et al., 2017). in this regard, the storyline approach (shepherd, 2016) provides an alternative option that does not depend on the model’s ability to represent the circulation reliably. in addition, several ways of quantifying statistical uncertainty (paciorek et al., 2018) and model evaluation (lott and stott, 2016; philip et al., 2018b, 2020) have been employed to evaluate the robustness of event attribution results. for the unconditional probability based approach, multi model and multi approach (e.g., combining observational analyses and model experiments) methods have been used to improve the robustness of event attribution (hauser et al., 2017; otto et al., 2018a; philip et al., 2018b, 2019, 2020; van oldenborgh et al., 2018; kew et al., 2019). in the regional tables provided in section 11.9, the different lines of evidence from event attribution studies and trend attributions are assessed alongside one another to provide an assessment of the human contribution to observed changes in extremes in all ar6 regions. the most important quantity used to characterize past and future climate change is global warming relative to its pre industrial level. changes in global warming are linked quasi linearly to global cumulative carbon dioxide (co2) emissions (ipcc, 2013), and for their part, changes in regional climate, including many types of extremes, scale quasi linearly with changes in global warming, often independently of the underlying emissions scenarios (sr1.5 chapter 3; seneviratne et al., 2016; matthews et al., 2017; wartenburger et al., 2017; kharin et al., 2018; y. sun et al., 2018a; tebaldi and knutti, 2018; beusch et al., 2020; li et al., 2021). in addition, the use of global warming levels in the context of global policy documents   in particular the 2015 paris agreement (unfccc, 2016) implies that information on changes in the climate system, and specifically extremes, as a function of global warming are of particular policy relevance. cross chapter box 11.1 provides an overview on the translation between information at global warming levels (gwls) and scenarios. the assessment of projections of future changes in extremes as function of gwl has an advantage in separating uncertainty associated with the global warming response (see chapter 4) from the uncertainty resulting from the regional climate response as a function of gwls (seneviratne and hauser, 2020). if the interest is in the projection of regional changes at certain gwls, such as those defined by the paris agreement, projections based on time periods and emissions scenarios have unnecessarily larger uncertainty due to differences in model global transient climate responses. to take advantage of this feature and to provide easy comparison with sr1.5, assessments of projected changes in this chapter are largely provided in relation to future gwls, with a focus on changes at +1.5°c, +2°c, and +4°c of global warming above pre industrial levels (e.g., tables 11.1 and 11.2 and regional tables in section 11.9). these encompass a scenario compatible with the lowest limit of the paris agreement (+1.5°c), a scenario slightly overshooting the aims of the paris agreement (+2°c), and a ‘worst case’ scenario with no mitigation (+4°c). cross chapter box 11.1 provides a background on the gwl sampling approach used in ar6, for the computation of gwl projections from climate models contributing to phase 6 of the coupled model intercomparison project (cmip6) as well as for the mapping of existing scenario based literature for cmip6 and the cmip phase 5 (cmip5) to assessments as function of gwls (see also section 11.9. and table 11.3 for an example). while regional changes in many types of extremes do scale robustly with global surface temperature, generally irrespective of emissions scenarios (section 11.1.4, figures 11.3, 11.6 and 11.7 and cross chapter box 11.1), effects of local forcing can distort this relation. for example, emissions scenarios with the same radiative forcing can have different regional extreme precipitation responses resulting from different aerosol forcing (z. wang et al., 2017b). another example is related to forcing from land use and land cover changes (section 11.1.6). climate models often either overestimate or underestimate observed changes in annual maximum daily maximum temperature, depending on the region and considered models (donat et al., 2017; vautard et al., 2020). part of the discrepancies may be due to the lack of representation of some land forcings, in particular crop intensification and irrigation (n.d. mueller et al., 2016; findell et al., 2017; thiery et al., 2017, 2020). since these local forcings are not represented, and their future changes are difficult to project, these can be important caveats when using gwl scaling to project future changes for these regions. however, these caveats also apply to the use of scenario based projections. the sr1.5 (chapter 3) assessed different climate responses at +1.5°c of global warming, including transient climate responses, short term stabilization responses, and long term equilibrium stabilization responses, and their implications for future projections of different extremes. indeed, the temporal dimension   that is, when the given gwl occurs   also matters for projections, in particular beyond the 21st century, and for some climate variables related to components of the climate system associated with large inertia (e.g., sea level rise and associated extremes). nonetheless, for assessments focused on conditions within the next decades, and for the main extremes considered in this chapter, derived projections are relatively insensitive to details of climate scenarios and can be well estimated based on transient simulations (cross chapter box 11.1; see also sr1.5). an important question is the identification of the gwl at which a given change in a climate extreme can begin to emerge from climate noise. figure 11.8 displays analyses of the gwls at which emergence in hot extremes   annual maximum daily temperature represented by txx and heavy precipitation represented by rx1day is identified in ar6 regions for the whole cmip5 and cmip6 ensembles. overall, signals for extremes emerge very early for txx, already below 0.2°c in many regions (figure 11.8a,b), and at around 0.5°c in most regions. this is consistent with conclusions from the sr1.5 (chapter 3 for less rare temperature extremes (txx on the yearly time scale), which shows that a difference as small as 0.5°c of global warming   for example, between +1.5°c and +2°c of global warming   leads to detectable differences in temperature extremes in txx in most wgi ar6 regions in cmip5 projections (e.g., wartenburger et al., 2017; seneviratne et al., 2018b). the gwl emergence for rx1day is also largely consistent with analyses for less extreme heavy precipitation events (rx5day on the yearly time scale) in sr1.5 (see chapter 3). to some extent, analyses as functions of gwls replace the time axis with a global surface temperature axis. nonetheless, information on the timing of given changes in extremes is obviously also relevant. (for information on the time frame at which given gwls are reached, see cross chapter box 11.1 and section 4.6). figure 11.5 provides a synthesis of attributed and projected changes in extremes as function of gwls (see also figures. 11.3, 11.6 and 11.7 for regional analyses). cross chapter box 11.1 | translating between regional information at global warming levels versus scenarios for end users contributors: erich fischer (switzerland), mathias hauser (switzerland), sonia i. seneviratne (switzerland), richard betts (united kingdom), josé m. gutiérrez (spain), richard g. jones (united kingdom), june yi lee (republic of korea), malte meinshausen (australia/germany), friederike otto (united kingdom/germany), izidine pinto (mozambique), roshanka ranasinghe (the netherlands/sri lanka/australia), joeri rogelj (germany/belgium), bjørn samset (norway), claudia tebaldi (united states of america), laurent terray (france) background traditionally, projections of climate variables are summarized and communicated as function of time and emissions scenarios. recently, quantifying global and regional climate at specific global warming levels (gwls) has become widespread, motivated by the inclusion of explicit gwls in the long term temperature goal of the paris agreement (section 1.6.2). gwls, expressed as changes in global surface temperature relative to the 1850 1900 period (see cross chapter box 2.3), are used in sr1.5 and in the assessment of reasons for concerns in the wgii reports (see also cross chapter box 12.1). cross chapter box 11.1, figure 1 illustrates how the assessment of the climate response at gwls relates to the uncertainty in scenarios regarding the timing of the respective gwls, as well as to the uncertainty in the associated regional climate responses, including extremes and other climatic impact drivers (cids). for many (but not all) climate variables and cids, the response pattern for a given gwl is consistent across different scenarios (chapters 1, 4, 9, 11 and atlas). gwls are defined as long term means (e.g., 20 year averages) compared to the pre industrial period, are commonly used in the literature, and were also underlying main assessments of sr1.5 (chapter 3). cross chapter box 11.1, figure 1 | schematic representation of relationship between emissions scenarios, global warming levels (gwls), regional climate responses, and impacts. the illustration shows the implied uncertainty problem associated with differentiating between 1.5°c, 2°c, and other gwls. focusing on gwls raises questions associated with emissions pathways to get to these temperatures (scenarios), as well as regional climate responses and the associated impacts at the corresponding gwl (the impacts question). adapted from james et al. (2017) and rogelj (2013) under the terms of the creative commons attribution licence. numerous studies have compared the regional response to anthropogenic forcing at gwls in annual and seasonal mean values and extremes of different climate and impact variables across different multi model ensembles and/or different scenarios (e.g., frieleret al. , 2012; scheweet al. , 2014; hergeret al. , 2015; schleussneret al. , 2016; seneviratneet al. , 2016; wartenburgeret al. , 2017; bettset al. , 2018; dosio and fischer, 2018; samset et al. , 2019; tebaldiet al. , 2020; see sections 4.6.1, 8.5.3, 9.3.1, 9.5, 9.6.3, 10.4.3 and 11.2.4 for further details). the regional response patterns at given gwls have been found to be consistent across different scenarios for many climate variables (cross chapter box 11.1 figure 2; pendergrasset al. , 2015; seneviratneet al. , 2016; wartenburgeret al. , 2017; seneviratne and hauser, 2020). the consistency tends to be higher for temperature related variables than for variables in the hydrological cycle or variables characterizing atmospheric dynamics, and for intermediate to high emissions scenarios than for low emissions scenarios (e.g., for mean precipitation in the representative concentration pathway (rcp) 2.6 scenario: pendergrass et al., 2015; wartenburger et al., 2017). nonetheless, cross chapter box 11.1 figure 2 illustrates that, even for mean precipitation, which is known to be forcing dependent (sections 4.6.1 and 8.5.3), scenario differences in the response pattern at a given gwl are smaller than model uncertainty and internal variability in many regions (herger et al., 2015). the response pattern is further found to be broadly consistent between models that reach a gwl relatively early, and those that reach it later under a given shared socio economic pathway (ssp; see cross chapter box 11.1, figure 2g,h). cross chapter box 11.1, figure 2 | (a c) coupled model intercomparison project phase 6 (cmip6) multi model mean precipitation change at 2°c global warming level (gwl) (20 year mean) in three different shared socio economic pathway (ssp) scenarios relative to 1850 1900. all models reaching the corresponding gwl in the corresponding scenario are averaged. the number of models averaged across is shown at the top right of the panel. the maps for the other two ssp scenarios ssp1 1.9 (five models only) and ssp3 7.0 (not shown) are consistent. (d f) same as (a c) but for annual mean temperature. (g) annual mean temperature change at 2°c in cmip6 models with high warming rate reaching the gwl in the corresponding scenario before the earliest year of the assessed very likely range (section 4.3.4). (h) climate response at 2°c gwl across all ssp1 1.9, ssp2 2.6, ssp2 4.5. ssp3 7.0 and ssp5 8.5 in all other models not shown in (g). the close agreement of (g) and (h) demonstrates that the mean temperature response at 2°c is not sensitive to the rate of warming, and thereby the global mean surface air temperature (gsat) warming of the respective models in 2081 2100. uncertainty is represented using the advanced approach: no overlay indicates regions with robust signal, where ≥66% of models show change greater than the variability threshold and ≥80% of all models agree on the sign of change; diagonal lines indicate regions with no change or no robust signal, where <66% of models show a change greater than the variability threshold; crossed lines indicate regions with conflicting signal, where ≥66% of models show change greater than the variability threshold and <80% of all models agree on the sign of change. for more information on the advanced approach, please refer to the cross chapter box atlas.1. in contrast to linear pattern scaling (mitchell, 2003; collins et al., 2013), the use of gwls as a dimension of integration does not require linearity in the response of a climate variable. it is therefore useful even for metrics that do not show a linear response, such as the frequency of heat extremes over land and oceans (fischer and knutti, 2015; frölicher et al., 2018; kharin et al., 2018; perkins kirkpatrick and gibson, 2017) if the relationship of the variable of interest to the gwl is scenario independent. the latter means that the response is independent of the pathway and relative contribution of various radiative forcings. for some more complex indices like warm spell duration, or for regions with strong aerosol changes, discrepancies can be larger (z. wang et al., 2017b; king et al., 2018; tebaldi et al., 2020). (see also the subsection below on gwls vs scenarios for further caveats.) the limited scenario dependence of the gwl based response for many variables implies that the regional response to emissions scenarios can be split in almost independent contributions of: (i) the transient global warming response to scenarios (see chapter 4); and (ii) the regional response as function of a given gwl, which has also been referred to as ‘regional climate sensitivity’ (seneviratne and hauser, 2020). this property has also been used to develop regionally resolved emulators for global climate models, using global surface temperature as input (beusch et al., 2020; tebaldi et al., 2020). analyses of the cmip6 and cmip5 multi model ensembles shows that the gwl based responses are very similar for temperature and precipitation extremes across the ensembles (seneviratne and hauser, 2020; wehner, 2020; li et al. , 2021). this is despite their difference in global warming response (chapter 4), confirming a substantial decoupling between the two responses (global warming vs gwl based regional response) for these variables. thus, the gwl approach isolates the uncertainty in the regional climate response from the global warming uncertainty induced by scenario, global mean model response and internal variability (cross chapter box, figure 1). mapping between gwl  and scenario based responses in model analyses to map scenario based climate projections into changes at specific gwls, first, all individual earth system model (esm) simulations that reach a certain gwl are identified. second, the climate response patterns at the respective gwl are calculated using an approach termed here ‘gwl sampling’   sometimes also referred to as epoch analysis, time shift, or time sampling approach   taking into account all models and scenarios (cross chapter box, figure 3). note that the range of years when a given gwl is reached in the cmip6 ensemble is different from the ar6 assessed range of projected global surface temperature (section 4.3.4; table 4.5). the latter further takes into account different lines of evidence, including the assessed observed warming between pre industrial and present day, information from observational constraints on cmip6, and emulators using the assessed transient climate response (tcr) and equilibrium climate sensitivity (ecs) ranges (section 4.3.4). hence the chapter 4 assessed range (table 4.5) is the reference to determine when a given gwl is likely reached under given scenarios, while the mapping between scenarios/time frames and gwls is used to assess the respective regional responses happening at these time frames (which also allows accounting for the global surface temperature assessment, rather than using scenarios analyses directly from cmip6 output). in the model based asssessment of chapters 4, 8, 10, 11, 12 and the atlas, the estimation of changes at gwls are generally defined as the 20 year time period in which the mean global surface air temperature (gsat; cross chapter box 2.3) first exceeds a certain anomaly relative to 1850 1900   for simulations that start after 1850, relative to all years up to 1900 (cross chapter box figure 3). the years when each individual model reaches a given gwl for cmip6 and cmip5 can be found in hauser et al. (2021). the changes at given gwls are identified for each ensemble member (for all scenarios) individually. thereby, a given gwl is potentially reached a few years earlier or later in different realizations of the same model due to internal variability, but the temperature averaged across the 20 year period analysed in any simulation is consistent with the gwl. instead of blending the information from the different scenarios, the interactive atlas can be used to compare the gwl spatial patterns and timings across the different scenarios (see section (atlas 1.3.1). cross chapter box11.1, figure 3 | illustration of the ar6 global warming level (gwl) sampling approach to derive the timing and the response at a given gwl for the case of coupled model intercomparison project phase 6 (cmip6) data. for the mapping of scenarios/time slices into gwls for cmip6, please refer to table 4.2. respective numbers for the cmip5 multi model experiment are provided in chapter 11 supplementary material (11.sm.1). note that the time frames used to derive the gwl time slices can also include a different number of years (e.g., 30 years for some analyses). mapping between gwl  and scenario based responsesfor literature a large fraction of the literature considers scenario based analyses for given time slices. when gwl based information is required instead, an approximated mapping of the multi model mean can be derived based on the known gwl in the given experiments for a particular time period. as a rough approximation, cmip6 multi model mean projections for the near term (2021 2040) correspond to changes at about 1.5°c, and projections for the high end scenario (ssp5 8.5) for the long term (2081 2100) correspond to about 4°c 5°c of global warming(see table 4.2 for changes in the cmip6 ensemble and the chapter 11 supplementary material (11.sm.1) and hauser (2021) for details on other time periods and cmip5). these approximated changes are used for some of the gwl based assessments provided in the chapter 11 regional tables (section 11.9 and table 11.3) when literature based on scenario projections is used to assess estimated changes at given gwls. gwls versus scenarios the use of scenarios remains a key element to inform mitigation decisions (cross chapter box 1.4), to assess which emissions pathways are consistent with a certain gwl (cross chapter box 1.4, figure 1), to estimate when certain gwls are reached (section 4.3.4), and to assess for which variables it is meaningful to use gwls as a dimension of integration. the use of scenarios is also essential for variables whose climate response strongly depends on the contribution of radiative forcing (e.g., aerosols) or land use and land management changes, are time and warming rate dependent (e.g., sea level rise), or differ between transient and quasi equilibrium states. furthermore, the use of concentration or emission driven scenario simulations is required if regional climate assessments need to account for the uncertainty in gsat changes or climate carbon feedbacks. forcing dependence of the gwl response is found for global mean precipitation (section 8.4.3), but less for regional patterns of mean precipitation changes (cross chapter box 11.1, figure 2). limited dependence is found for extremes, as highlighted above. in the cryosphere, elements that are quick to respond to warming like sea ice area, permafrost and snow, show little scenario dependence (sections 9.3.1.1, 9.5.2.3 and 9.5.3.3), whereas slow responding variables such as ice volumes of glaciers and ice sheets respond with a substantial delay and, due to their inertia, the response depends on when a certain gwl is reached. this also applies to some extent for sea level rise where, for example, the contributions of melting glaciers and ice sheets depend on the pathway followed to reach a given gwl (section 9.6.3.4). in addition to the lagged effect, the climate response at a given gwl may differ before and after a period of overshoot, for example in the atlantic meridional overturning circulation (e.g., palter et al. 2018). finally, as assessed in ipcc sr1.5, there is a difference in the response even for temperature related variables if a gwl is reached in a rapidly warming transient state or in an equilibrium state when the land sea warming contrast is less pronounced (e.g., king et al. 2020). however, in this report, gwls are used in the context of projections for the 21st century when the climate response is mostly not in equilibrium and where projections for many variables are less dependent on the pathway than for projections beyond 2100 (section 9.6.3.4). key conclusions on assessment s based on gwls gwl based projections can inform society and policymakers on how climate would change under gwls consistent with the aims of the paris agreement (stabilization at 1.5°c/well below 2°c), as well as on the consequences of missing these aims and reaching gwls of 3°c or 4°c by the end of the century. the ar6 assessment shows that every bit of global warming matters and that changes in global warming of 0.5°c lead to statistically significant changes in mean climate and climate extremes on global scale and for large regions (sections 4.6.2, 11.2.4, 11.3, 11.4, 11.6 and 11.9, figures 11.8 and 11.9, atlas and interactive atlas), as also assessed in ipcc sr1.5. this section assesses changes in temperature extremes at global, continental and regional scales. the main focus is on the changes in the magnitude and frequency of moderate extreme temperatures (those that occur several times a year) to very extreme temperatures (those that occur once in 10 or more years) of time scales from a day to a season, though there is a strong emphasis on the daily scale where literature is most concentrated. the srex (ipcc, 2012) and ar5 (ipcc, 2014) concluded that greenhouse gas forcing is the dominant factor for the increases in the intensity, frequency, and duration of warm extremes and the decrease in those of cold extremes. this general global scale warming is modulated by large scale atmospheric circulation patterns, as well as by feedbacks such as soil moisture evapotranspiration temperature and snow/ice albedo temperature feedbacks, and local forcings such as land use change or changes in aerosol concentrations at the regional and local scales (sections 11.1.5 and 11.1.6, and box 11.1). therefore, changes in temperature extremes at regional and local scales can have heterogeneous spatial distributions. changes in the magnitudes (or intensities) of extreme temperatures are often larger than changes in global surface temperature, because of larger warming on land than on the ocean surface (section 2.3.1.1), and because of feedbacks, though they are of similar magnitude to changes in the local mean temperature (figure 11.2). extreme temperature events are associated with large scale meteorological patterns (grotjahn et al., 2016). quasi stationary anticyclonic circulation anomalies or atmospheric blocking events are linked to temperature extremes in many regions, such as in australia (parker et al., 2014; perkins kirkpatrick et al., 2016), europe (brunner et al., 2017, 2018; schaller et al., 2018), eurasia (yao et al., 2017), asia (chen et al., 2016; ratnam et al., 2016; rohini et al., 2016), and north america (yu et al., 2018, 2019; zhang and luo, 2019). mid latitude planetary wave modulations affect short duration temperature extremes such as heatwaves (perkins, 2015; kornhuber et al., 2020). the large scale modes of variability (annex iv) affect the strength, frequency and persistence of these meteorological patterns and, hence, temperature extremes. for example, cold and warm extremes in the mid latitudes are associated with atmospheric circulation patterns such as the pacific north american (pna) pattern, as well as atmosphere ocean coupled modes such as pacific decadal variability (pdv), the north atlantic oscillation (nao), and atlantic multi decadal variability (amv) (section 11.1.5; kamae et al., 2014; johnson et al., 2018; ruprich robert et al., 2018; yu et al., 2018, 2020; müller et al., 2020; qasmi et al., 2021). changes in the modes of variability in response to warming would therefore affect temperature extremes (clark and brown, 2013; horton et al., 2015). the level of confidence in those changes varies, both in the observations and in future projections, affecting the level of confidence in changes in temperature extremes in different regions. as highlighted in chapters 2 to 4 of this report, it is likely that there have been observational changes in the extratropical jets and mid latitude jet meandering (section 2.3.1.4.3 and cross chapter box 10.1). there is low confidence in possible effects of arctic warming on mid latitude temperature extremes (cross chapter box 10.1). a large portion of the multi decadal changes in extreme temperature remains after the removal of the effect of these modes of variability, and can be attributed to human influence (kamae et al., 2017b; wan et al., 2019). thus, global warming dominates changes in temperature extremes at the regional scale and it is very unlikely that dynamic responses to greenhouse gas induced warming would alter the direction of these changes. land atmosphere feedbacks strongly modulate regional  and local scale changes in temperature extremes (high confidence) (section 11.1.6; seneviratne et al., 2013; lemordant et al., 2016; donat et al., 2017; sillmann et al., 2017b; hirsch et al., 2019). this effect is particularly notable in mid latitude regions where the drying of soil moisture amplifies high temperatures, especially through increases in sensible heat flux (whan et al., 2015; douville et al., 2016; vogel et al., 2017). land atmosphere feedbacks amplifying temperature extremes also include boundary layer feedbacks and effects on atmospheric circulation (miralles et al., 2014a; schumacher et al., 2019). soil moisture temperature feedbacks affect past and present day heatwaves in observations and model simulations, both locally (miralles et al., 2014a; cowan et al., 2016, 2020; hauser et al., 2016; meehl et al., 2016; wehrli et al., 2019) and beyond the regions of feedback occurrence through changes in regional circulation patterns (stéfanon et al., 2014; koster et al., 2016; sato and nakamura, 2019). the uncertainty due to the representation of land atmosphere feedbacks in esms is a cause of discrepancy between observations and simulations (clark et al., 2006; mueller and seneviratne, 2014; meehl et al., 2016). the decrease of plant transpiration or the increase of stomata resistance under enhanced co2 concentrations is a direct co2 forcing of land temperatures (warming due to reduced evaporative cooling), which contributes to higher warming on land (lemordant et al., 2016; vicente serrano et al., 2020b). the snow/ice albedo feedback plays an important role in amplifying temperature variability in the high latitudes (diro et al., 2018) and can be the largest contributor to the rapid warming of cold extremes in the mid  and high latitudes of the northern hemisphere (gross et al., 2020). regional external forcings, including land use changes and emissions of anthropogenic aerosols, play an important role in the changes of temperature extremes in some regions (high confidence) (section 11.1.6). deforestation may have contributed to about one third of the warming of hot extremes in some mid latitude regions since the pre industrial time (lejeune et al., 2018). aspects of agricultural practice, including no till farming, irrigation, and overall cropland intensification, may cool hot temperature extremes (davin et al., 2014; n.d. mueller et al., 2016). for instance, cropland intensification has been suggested to be responsible for a cooling of the highest temperature percentiles in midwest usa (n.d. mueller et al., 2016). irrigation has been shown to be responsible for a cooling of hot temperature extremes of up to 1°c 2°c in many mid latitude regions in the present climate (thieryet al., 2017, 2020), a process not represented in most of state of the art esms (cmip5, cmip6). double cropping may have led to increased hot extremes in the inter cropping season in part of china (jeong et al., 2014). rapid increases in summer warming in western europe and north east asia since the 1980s are linked to a reduction in anthropogenic aerosol precursor emissions over europe (nabat et al., 2014; dong et al., 2016b, 2017), in addition to the effect of increased greenhouse gas forcing (see also section 10.1.3.1). this effect of aerosols on temperature related extremes is also noted for declines in short lived anthropogenic aerosol emissions over north america (mascioli et al., 2016). on the local scale, the urban heat island (uhi) effect results in higher temperatures in urban areas than in their surrounding regions, and contributes to warming in regions of rapid urbanization, in particular for nighttime temperature extremes (box 10.3; phelan et al., 2015; chapman et al., 2017; y. sun et al., 2019). but these local and regional forcings are generally not or not well represented in the cmip5 and cmip6 simulations (see also section 11.3.3), contributing to uncertainty in model simulated changes. in summary, greenhouse gas forcing is the dominant driver leading to the warming of temperature extremes. at regional scales, changes in temperature extremes are modulated by changes in large scale patterns and modes of variability, feedbacks including soil moisture evapotranspiration temperature or snow/ice albedo temperature feedbacks, and local and regional forcings such as land use and land cover changes, or aerosol concentrations, and decadal and multi decadal natural variability. this leads to heterogeneity in regional changes and their associated uncertainties (high confidence). changes in anthropogenic aerosol concentrations have likely affected trends in hot extremes in some regions. irrigation and crop expansion have attenuated increases in summer hot extremes in some regions, such as the midwestern usa (medium confidence). urbanization has likely exacerbated the effects of global warming in cities, in particular for nighttime temperature extremes. the srex (ipcc, 2012) reported avery likely decrease in the number of cold days and nights and increase in the number of warm days and nights at the global scale. confidence in trends was assessed as regionally variable (low to medium confidence) due to either a lack of observations or varying signals in sub regions. since srex (ipcc, 2012) and ar5 (ipcc, 2014), many regional scale studies have examined trends in temperature extremes using different metrics that are based on daily temperatures, such as the commission for climatology/world climate research program/commission for oceanography and marine meteorology joint expert team on climate change detection and indices (etccdi) indices (dunn et al., 2020). the additional observational records, along with a stronger warming signal, show very clearly that changes observed at the time of ar5 (ipcc, 2014) continued, providing strengthened evidence of an increase in the intensity and frequency of hot extremes and decrease in the intensity and frequency of cold extremes. while the magnitude of the observed trends in temperature related extremes varies depending on the region, spatial and temporal scales, and metric assessed, evidence of a warming effect is overwhelming, robust, and consistent. in particular, an increase in the intensity and frequency of hot extremes is almost always associated with an increase in the hottest temperatures and in the number of heatwave days. it is also the case for changes (decreases) in cold extremes. for this reason, and to simplify the presentation, the phrase ‘increase in the intensity and frequency of hot extremes’ is used to represent, collectively, an increase in the magnitude of extreme day and/or night temperatures, in the number of warm days and/or nights, and in the number of heatwave days. changes in cold extremes are assessed similarly. on the global scale, evidence of an increase in the number of warm days and nights and a decrease in the number of cold days and nights, and an increase in the coldest and hottest extreme temperatures is very robust and consistent among all variables. figure 11.2 displays time series of globally averaged txx and tnn on land. warming of land mean txx is similar to the mean temperature warming on land, which is about 45% higher than global warming (section 2.3.1). warming of land mean tnn is even higher, with about 3°c of warming since 1960 (figure 11.2). figure 11.9 shows maps of linear trends over 1960 2018 in txx, tnn, and frequency of warm days (tx90p). the maps for txx and tnn show trends consistent with overall warming in most regions, with a particularly high warming of txx in europe and north western south america, and a particularly high warming of tnn in the arctic. consistent with the observed warming in global surface temperature (section 2.3.1.2) and the observed trends in txx and tnn, the frequency of tx90p has increased, while that of cold nights (tn10p) has decreased since the 1950s: nearly all land regions showed statistically significant decreases in tn10p (alexander, 2016; dunn et al., 2020), though trends in tx90p are variable with some decreases in southern south america, mainly during austral summer (rusticucci et al., 2017). a decrease in the number of cold spell days is also observed over nearly all land surface areas (easterling et al., 2016) and in the northern mid latitudes in particular (van oldenborgh et al., 2019). these observed changes are also consistent when a new global land surface daily air temperature dataset is analysed (p. zhang et al., 2019). warming trends in temperature extremes globally, and in most land areas, over the path century are also found to be consistent in a range of observation based datasets (fischer and knutti, 2014; donat et al., 2016a; dunn et al., 2020), with the extremes related to daily minimum temperatures changing faster than those related to daily maximum temperatures (dunn et al., 2020; see figure 11.2). seasonal variations in trends in temperature related extremes have been demonstrated. a warming in warm season temperature extremes is detected, even during the ‘slower surface global warming’ period from the late 1990s to early 2010s (cross chapter box 3.1; kamae et al., 2014; seneviratne et al., 2014; imada et al., 2017). many studies of past changes in temperature extremes for particular regions or countries show trends consistent with this global picture, as summarized below and in tables 11.4, 11.7, 11.10, 11.13, 11.16 and 11.19. in africa (table 11.4), while it is difficult to assess changes in temperature extremes in parts of the continent because of a lack of data, evidence of an increase in the intensity and frequency of hot extremes and decrease in the intensity and frequency of cold extremes is clear and robust in regions where data are available. these include an increase in the frequency of warm days and nights and a decrease in the frequency of cold days and nights with high confidence (donat et al., 2013a, 2014b; kruger and sekele, 2013; chaney et al., 2014; filahi et al., 2016; moron et al., 2016; ringard et al., 2016; barry et al., 2018; gebrechorkos et al., 2018) and an increase in heatwaves (russo et al., 2016; ceccherini et al., 2017). the increase in tnn is more notable than in txx (figure 11.9). cold spells occasionally strike subtropical areas, but are likely to have decreased in frequency (barry et al., 2018). the frequency of cold events has likely decreased in south africa (song et al., 2014; kruger and nxumalo, 2017), north africa (filahi et al., 2016; driouech et al., 2021), and the sahara (donat et al., 2016a). over the whole continent, there is medium confidence in an increase in the intensity and frequency of hot extremes and decrease in the intensity and frequency of cold extremes; it is likely thatsimilar changes have also occurred in areas with poor data coverage, as warming is widespread and as projected future changes are similar over all regions (section 11.3.5). in asia (table 11.7), there is veryrobust evidence for avery likely increase in the intensity and frequency of hot extremes and decrease in the intensity and frequency of cold extremes in recent decades. this is clear in global studies (e.g., alexander, 2016; dunn et al., 2020), as well as in numerous regional studies (table 11.7). the area fraction with extreme warmth in asia increased during 1951 2016 (imada et al., 2018). the frequency of warm extremes increased and the frequency of cold extremes decreased in east asia (b. zhou et al., 2016; chen and zhai, 2017; yin et al., 2017; w. lee et al., 2018; qian et al., 2019) and west asia (acar deniz and gönençgil, 2015; erlat and türkeş, 2016; rahimi and hejabi, 2018; rahimi et al., 2018) with high confidence. the duration of heat extremes has also lengthened in some regions, for example, in southern china (luo and lau, 2016), but there is medium confidence of heat extremes increasing in frequency in south asia (alsarmi and washington, 2014; sheikh et al., 2015; mazdiyasni et al., 2017; zahid et al., 2017; nasim et al., 2018; khan et al., 2019; sen roy, 2019). warming trends in daily temperature extremes indices have also been observed in central asia (hu et al., 2016; feng et al., 2018), the hindu kush himalaya (sun et al., 2017), and south east asia (supari et al., 2017; cheong et al., 2018). the intensity and frequency of cold spells in all asian regions have been decreasing since the beginning of the 20th century (high confidence) (sheikh et al., 2015; donat et al., 2016a; dong et al., 2018; van oldenborgh et al., 2019). in australasia (table 11.10), there is veryrobust evidence forvery likely increases in the number of warm days and warm nights and decreases in the number of cold days and cold nights since 1950 (lewis and king, 2015; jakob and walland, 2016; alexander and arblaster, 2017). the increase in extreme minimum temperatures occurs in all seasons over most of australia and typically exceeds the increase in extreme maximum temperatures (x.l. wang et al., 2013b; jakob and walland, 2016). however, some parts of southern australia have shown stable or increased numbers of frost days since the 1980s (dittus et al., 2014) (see also section 11.3.4). similar positive trends in extreme minimum and maximum temperatures have been observed in new zealand, in particular in the autumn and winter seasons, although they generally show higher spatial variability (caloiero, 2017). in the tropical western pacific region, spatially coherent warming trends in maximum and minimum temperature extremes have been reported for the period 1951 2011 (whan et al., 2014; mcgree et al., 2019). in central and south america (table 11.13), there is high confidence that observed hot extremes (tn90p, tx90p) have increased, and cold extremes (tn10p, tx10p) have decreased over recent decades, though trends vary among different extremes types, datasets, and regions (skansi et al., 2013; dittus et al., 2016; rusticucci et al., 2017; meseguer ruiz et al., 2018; salvador and de brito, 2018; dereczynski et al., 2020; dunn et al., 2020; olmo et al., 2020). an increase in the intensity and frequency of heatwave events was also observed between 1961 and 2014 in an area covering most of south america (ceccherini et al., 2016; geirinhas et al., 2018). however, there is medium confidence that warm extremes (txx and tx90p) have decreased in the last decades over the central region of south eastern south america (ses) during austral summer (tencer and rusticucci, 2012; skansi et al., 2013; rusticucci et al., 2017; wu and polvani, 2017). there is medium confidence that tnn extremes are warming faster than txx extremes, with the largest warming rates observed over north east brazil (neb) and northern south america (nsa) for cold nights (skansi et al., 2013). in europe (table 11.16), there is veryrobust evidence for avery likely increase in maximum temperatures and the frequency of heatwaves. the increase in the magnitude and frequency of high maximum temperatures has been observed consistently across regions, including in central europe (twardosz and kossowska cezak, 2013; christidis et al., 2015; lorenz et al., 2019) and southern europe (croitoru and piticar, 2013; el kenawy et al., 2013; christidis et al., 2015; nastos and kapsomenakis, 2015; fioravanti et al., 2016; ruml et al., 2017). in northern europe, a strong increase in extreme winter warming events has been observed (matthes et al., 2015; vikhamar schuler et al., 2016). temperature observations for winter cold spells show a long term decreasing frequency in europe (brunner et al., 2018; van oldenborgh et al., 2019), and typical cold spells, such as that observed during the 2009 2010 winter, had an occurrence probability two times smaller currently than if climate change had not occurred (christiansen et al., 2018). in north america (table 11.19), there is veryrobust evidence for avery likely increase in the intensity and frequency of hot extremes and decrease in the intensity and frequency of cold extremes for the whole continent, though there are substantial spatial and seasonal variations in the trends. minimum temperatures display warming consistently across the continent, while there are more contrasting trends in the annual maximum daily temperatures in parts of the usa (figure 11.9; lee et al., 2014; van oldenborgh et al., 2019; dunn et al., 2020). in canada, there is a clear increase in the intensity and frequency of hot extremes and decrease in the intensity and frequency of cold extremes (vincent et al., 2018). in mexico, a clear warming trend in tnn was found, particularly in the northern arid region (montero martínez et al., 2018). the number of warm days has increased and the number of cold days has decreased (garcía cueto et al., 2019). cold spells have undergone a reduction in magnitude and intensity in all regions of north america (bennett and walsh, 2015; donat et al., 2016a; grotjahn et al., 2016; vose et al., 2017; garcía cueto et al., 2019; van oldenborgh et al., 2019). extreme heat events have increased around the arctic since 1979, particularly over arctic north america and greenland (matthes et al., 2015; dobricic et al., 2020), which is consistent with summer melt (section 9.4.1). observations north of 60˚n show increases in winter warm days and nights over 1979 2015, while cold days and nights declined (sui et al., 2017). extreme heat days are particularly strong in winter, with observations showing the warmest mid winter temperatures at the north pole rising at twice the rate of mean temperature (moore, 2016), as well as increases in arctic winter warm days (vikhamar schuler et al., 2016; graham et al., 2017). arctic annual minimum temperatures have increased at about three times the rate of global surface temperature since the 1960s (figures 11.2 and 11.9), consistent with the observed mean cold season (october may) warming of 3.1°c in the region (atlas 11.2). trends in some measures of heatwaves are also observed at the global scale. globally averaged heatwave intensity, heatwave duration, and the number of heatwave days have significantly increased from 1950 2011 (perkins, 2015). there are some regional differences in trends in characteristics of heatwaves, with significant increases reported in europe (russo et al., 2015; forzieri et al., 2016;sánchez benítez et al., 2020) and australia (csiro and bom, 2016; alexander and arblaster, 2017). in africa, there is medium confidence that heatwaves, regardless of the definition, have been becoming more frequent, longer lasting, and hotter over more than three decades (fontaine et al., 2013; mouhamed et al., 2013; ceccherini et al., 2016, 2017; forzieri et al., 2016; moron et al., 2016; russo et al., 2016). the majority of heatwave characteristics examined in china between 1961 and 2014 show increases in heatwave days, consistent with warming (you et al., 2017; xie et al., 2020). increases in the frequency and duration of heatwaves are also observed in mongolia (erdenebat and sato, 2016) and india (ratnam et al., 2016; rohini et al., 2016). in the uk, the lengths of short heatwaves have increased since the 1970s, while the lengths of long heatwaves (more than 10 days) have decreased over some stations in the south east of england (m. sanderson et al., 2017). in central and south america, there are increases in the frequency of heatwaves (barros et al., 2015; bitencourt et al., 2016; ceccherini et al., 2016; piticar, 2018), although decreases in excess heat factor (ehf), which is a metric for heatwave intensity, are observed in south america in data derived from hadghcnd (cavanaugh and shen, 2015). in summary, it is virtually certain that there has been an increase in the number of warm days and nights and a decrease in the number of cold days and nights on the global scale since 1950. both the coldest extremes and hottest extremes display increasing temperatures. it is very likely that these changes have also occurred at the regional scale in europe, australasia, asia, and north america. it is virtually certain that there has been increases in the intensity and duration of heatwaves and in the number of heatwave days at the global scale. these trends likely occur in europe, asia, and australia. there is medium confidence in similar changes in temperature extremes in africa and high confidence in south america; the lower confidence is due to reduced data availability and fewer studies. annual minimum temperatures on land have increased about three times more than global surface temperature since the 1960s, with particularly strong warming in the arctic (high confidence). the ar5 assessed that cmip3 and cmip5 models generally captured the observed spatial distributions of the mean state and that the inter model range of simulated temperature extremes was similar to the spread estimated from different observational datasets; the models generally captured trends in the second half of the 20th century for indices of extreme temperature, although they tended to overestimate trends in hot extremes and underestimate trends in cold extremes (flato et al., 2013). post ar5 studies on the cmip5 models’ performance in simulating mean and changes in temperature extremes continue to support the ar5 assessment (fischer and knutti, 2014; sillmann et al., 2014; ringard et al., 2016; borodina et al., 2017b; donat et al., 2017; di luca et al., 2020b). over africa, the observed warming in temperature extremes is captured by cmip5 models, although it is underestimated in western and central africa (sherwood et al., 2014; diedhiou et al., 2018). over east asia, the cmip5 ensemble performs well in reproducing the observed trend in temperature extremes averaged over china (dong et al., 2015). over australia, the multi model mean performs better than individual models in capturing observed trends in gridded station based etccdi temperature indices (alexander and arblaster, 2017). initial analyses of cmip6 simulations (h. chen et al., 2020; di luca et al., 2020a; kim et al., 2020; thorarinsdottir et al., 2020; wehner et al., 2020; li et al., 2021) indicate that the cmip6 models perform similarly to the cmip5 models regarding biases in hot and cold extremes. in general, cmip5 and cmip6 historical simulations are similar in their performance in simulating the observed climatology of extreme temperatures (high confidence). the general warm bias in hot extremes and cold bias in cold extremes reported for cmip5 models (kharin et al., 2013; sillmann et al., 2013a) remain in cmip6 models (di luca et al., 2020a). however, there is some evidence that cmip6 models better represent some of the underlying processes leading to extreme temperatures, such as seasonal and diurnal variability and synoptic scale variability (di luca et al., 2020a). whether these improvements are sufficient to enhance our understanding of past changes, or to reduce uncertainties in future projections, remains unclear. the relative error estimates in the simulation of various indices of temperature extremes in the available cmip6 models show that no single model performs the best on all indices, and the multi model ensemble seems to outperform any individual model due to its reduction in systematic bias (kim et al., 2020). figure 11.10 show errors in the 1979 2014 average annual txx and annual tnn simulated by available cmip6 models in comparison with hadex3 and era5 (kim et al., 2020; wehner et al., 2020; li et al., 2021). while the magnitude of the model error depends on the reference dataset, the model evaluations drawn from different reference datasets are quite similar. in general, models reproduce the spatial patterns and magnitudes of both cold and hot temperature extremes quite well. there are also systematic biases. hot extremes tend to be too cool in mountainous and high latitude regions, but too warm in the eastern usa and south america. for cold extremes, cmip6 models are too cool, except in north eastern eurasia and the southern mid latitudes. errors in seasonal mean temperatures are uncorrelated with errors in extreme temperatures and are often of opposite sign (wehner et al., 2020). atmospheric model intercomparison project (amip) simulations are often used in event attribution studies to assess the influence of global warming on observed temperature related extremes. these simulations typically capture the observed trends in temperature extremes, though some regional features, such as the lack of warming in daytime warm temperature extremes over south america and parts of north america, are not reproduced in the model simulations (dittus et al., 2018), possibly due to internal variability, deficiencies in local surface processes, or forcings that are not represented in the sea surface temperatures (ssts). additionally, the amip models assessed tend to produce overly persistent heatwave events. this bias in the duration of the events does not impact on the reliability of the models’ positive trends (freychet et al., 2018). several regional climate models (rcms) have also been evaluated in terms of their performance in simulating the climatology of extremes in various regions of the coordinated regional downscaling experiment (cordex) (giorgi et al., 2009), especially in east asia (ji and kang, 2015; yu et al., 2015; park et al., 2016; bucchignani et al., 2017; gao et al., 2017a; niu et al., 2018; y. sun et al., 2018b; wang et al., 2019), europe (vautard et al., 2013, 2021; smiatek et al., 2016; gaertner et al., 2018; cardoso et al., 2019; lorenz et al., 2019; jacob et al., 2020; kim et al., 2020), and africa (j. kim et al., 2014; diallo et al., 2015; dosio, 2017; samouly et al., 2018; mostafa et al., 2019). compared to gcms, rcm simulations show an added value in simulating temperature related extremes, though this depends on topographical complexity and the parameters employed (see section 10.3.3). the improvement with resolution is noted in east asia (park et al., 2016; w. zhou et al., 2016; shi et al., 2017; hui et al., 2018). however, in the european cordex ensemble, different aerosol climatologies with various degrees of complexity were used in projections (bartók et al., 2017; lorenz et al., 2019) and the land surface models used in the rcms do not account for physiological co2 effects on photosynthesis leading to enhanced water use efficiency and decreased evapotranspiration (schwingshackl et al., 2019), which could lead to biases in the representation of temperature extremes in these projections (boé et al., 2020). in addition, there are key cold biases in temperature extremes over areas with complex topography (niu et al., 2018). over north america, 12 rcms were evaluated over the arctic cordex region (diaconescu et al., 2018). models performed well at simulating climate indices related to mean air temperature and hot extremes over most of the canadian arctic, with the exception of the yukon region where models displayed the largest biases related to topographic effects. two rcms were evaluated against observed extremes indices over north america over the period 1989 2009, with a cool bias in minimum temperature extremes shown in both rcms (whan and zwiers, 2016). the most significant biases are found in txx and tnn, with fewer differences in the simulation of annual minimum daily maximum temperature (txn) and annual maximum daily minimum temperature (tnx) in central and western north america. over central and south america, maximum temperatures from the eta rcm are generally underestimated, although hot days, warm nights, and heatwaves are increasing in the period 1961 1990, in agreement with observations (chou et al., 2014b; tencer et al., 2016; bozkurt et al., 2019). some land forcings are not well represented in climate models. as highlighted in the special report on climate change and land (srccl) chapter 2, there is high agreement that temperate deforestation leads to summer warming and winter cooling (anderson et al., 2011; gálos et al., 2011, 2013; anderson teixeira et al., 2012; chen et al., 2012; wickham et al., 2013; zhao and jackson, 2014; ahlswede and thomas, 2017; bright et al., 2017; strandberg and kjellström, 2019), which has substantially contributed to the warming of hot extremes in the northern mid latitudes over the course of the 20th century (lejeune et al., 2018) and in recent years (strandberg and kjellström, 2019). however, observed forest effects on the seasonal and diurnal cycle of temperature are not well captured in several esms: while observations show a cooling effect of forest cover compared to non forest vegetation during daytime (li et al., 2015), in particular in arid, temperate, and tropical regions (alkama and cescatti, 2016), several esms simulate a warming of daytime temperatures for regions with forest versus non forest cover (lejeune et al., 2017). also irrigation effects, which can lead to regional cooling of temperature extremes, are generally not integrated in current generations of esms (section 11.3.1). in summary, there is high confidence that climate models can reproduce the mean state and overall warming of temperature extremes observed globally and in most regions, although the magnitude of the trends may differ. the ability of models to capture observed trends in temperature related extremes depends on the metric evaluated, the way indices are calculated, and the time periods and spatial scales considered. regional climate models add value in simulating temperature related extremes over gcms in some regions. some land forcings on temperature extremes are not well captured (effects of deforestation) or generally not representated (irrigation) in esms. the srex (ipcc, 2012) assessed that it is likely anthropogenic influences have led to the warming of extreme daily minimum and maximum temperatures at the global scale. the ar5 concluded that human influence has very likely contributed to the observed changes in the intensity and frequency of daily temperature extremes on the global scale in the second half of the 20th century (ipcc, 2014). with regard to individual, or regionally or locally specific events, ar5 concluded that it is likely human influence has substantially increased the probability of occurrence of heatwaves in some locations. studies since ar5 continue to attribute the observed increase in the frequency or intensity of hot extremes and the observed decrease in the frequency or intensity of cold extremes to human influence, dominated by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, on global and continental scales, and for many ar6 regions. these include attribution of changes in the magnitude of annual txx, tnx, txn, and tnn, based on different observational datasets including, hadex2 and hadex3, cmip5 and cmip6 simulations, and different statistical methods (kim et al., 2016; z. wang et al., 2017a; seong et al., 2021). as is the case for an increase in mean temperature (section 3.3.1), an increase in extreme temperature is mostly due to greenhouse gas forcing, offset by aerosol forcing. the aerosols’ cooling effect is clearly detectable over europe and asia (seong et al., 2021). as much as 75% of the moderate daily hot extremes (above 99.9th percentile) over land are due to anthropogenic warming (fischer and knutti, 2015). new results are found to be more robust due to the extended period that improves the signal to noise ratio. the effect of anthropogenic forcing is clearly detectable and attributable in the observed changes in these indicators of temperature extremes, even at country and sub country scales, such as in canada (wan et al., 2019). changes in the number of warm nights, warm days, cold nights, and cold days, and other indicators such as the warm spell duration index (wsdi), are also attributed to anthropogenic influence (christidis and stott, 2016; hu et al., 2020). regional studies, including for asia (dong et al., 2018; lu et al., 2018), australia (alexander and arblaster, 2017), and europe (christidis and stott, 2016), found similar results. a clear anthropogenic signal is also found in the trends in the combined extreme index (cei) for north america, asia, australia, and europe (dittus et al., 2016). while various studies have described increasing trends in several heatwave metrics (heatwave duration, the number of heatwave days, etc.) in different regions (e.g., cowan et al., 2014; bandyopadhyay et al., 2016; m. sanderson et al., 2017), few recent studies have explicitly attributed these changes to causes; most of them stated that observed trends are consistent with anthropogenic warming. the detected anthropogenic signals are clearly separable from the response to natural forcing, and the results are generally insensitive to the use of different model samples, as well as different data availability, indicating robust attribution. studies of monthly, seasonal, and annual records in various regions (kendon, 2014; lewis and king, 2015; bador et al., 2016; meehl et al., 2016; c. zhou et al., 2019) and globally (king, 2017) show an increase in the breaking of hot records and a decrease in the breaking of cold records (king, 2017). changes in anthropogenically attributablerecord breaking rates are noted to be largest over the northern hemisphere land areas (shiogama et al., 2016). yin and sun (2018) found clear evidence of an anthropogenic signal in the changes in the number of frost and ice days, when multiple model simulations were used. in some key wheat producing regions of southern australia, increases in frost days or frost season length have been reported (dittus et al., 2014; crimp et al., 2016); these changes are linked to decreases in rainfall, cloud cover, and subtropical ridge strength, despite an overall increase in regional mean temperatures (dittus et al., 2014; pepler et al., 2018). a significant advance since ar5 has been a large number of studies focusing on extreme temperature events at monthly and seasonal scales, using various extreme event attribution methods. diffenbaugh et al. (2017) found that anthropogenic warming has increased the severity and probability of the hottest month by more than 80% of the available observational area on the global scale. christidis and stott (2014) provide clear evidence that warm events have become more probable because of anthropogenic forcings. sun et al. (2014) found that human influence has caused a more than 60 fold increase in the probability of the extreme warm 2013 summer in eastern china since the 1950s. human influence is found to have increased the probability of the historically hottest summers in many regions of the world, both in terms of mean temperature (b. mueller et al., 2016) and wet bulb globe temperature (wbgt; c. li et al., 2017). in most regions of the northern hemisphere, changes in the probability of extreme summer average wbgt were found to be about an order of magnitude larger than changes in the probability of extreme hot summers estimated by surface air temperature (c. li et al., 2017). in addition to these generalized, global scale approaches, extreme event studies have found an attributable increase in the probability of hot annual and seasonal temperatures in many locations, including australia (knutson et al., 2014b; lewis and karoly, 2014), china (sun et al., 2014; sparrow et al., 2018; zhou et al., 2020), korea (y. h. kim et al., 2018) and europe (king et al., 2015b). there have also been many extreme event attribution studies that examined short duration temperature extremes, including daily temperatures, temperature indices, and heatwave metrics. examples of these events from different regions are summarized in various annual explaining extreme events supplements of the bulletin of the american meteorological society (peterson et al., 2012, 2013a; herring et al., 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020), including a number of approaches to examine extreme events (described in easterling et al., 2016; stott et al., 2016; otto, 2017). several studies of recent events from 2016 onwards have determined an infinite risk ratio (a fraction of attributable risk, or far, of 1), indicating that the occurrence probability for such events is close to zero in model simulations without anthropogenic influences (see herring et al., 2018, 2019, 2020; imada et al., 2019; vogel et al., 2019). though it is difficult to accurately estimate the lower bound of the uncertainty range of the far in these cases (paciorek et al., 2018), the fact that those events are so far outside the envelop of the models with only natural forcing indicates that it is extremely unlikely for those events to occur without human influence. studies that focused on the attributable signal in observed cold extreme events show human influence reducing the probability of those events. individual attribution studies on the extremely cold winter of 2011 in europe (peterson et al., 2012), in the eastern usa during 2014 and 2015 (trenary et al., 2015, 2016; wolter et al., 2015; bellprat et al., 2016), in the cold spring of 2013 in the united kingdom (christidis et al., 2014), and of 2016 in eastern china (qian et al., 2018; y. sun et al., 2018b) all showed a reduced probability due to human influence on the climate. an exception is the study of grose et al. (2018), which found an increase in the probability of the severe western australian frost of 2016 due to anthropogenically driven changes in circulation patterns that drive cold outbreaks and frost probability. different event attribution studies can produce a wide range of changes in the probability of event occurrence because of different framing. the temperature event definition itself plays a crucial role in the attributable signal (fischer and knutti, 2015; kirchmeier‐young et al., 2019). large scale, longer duration events tend to have notably larger attributable risk ratios (angélil et al., 2014, 2018; uhe et al., 2016; harrington, 2017; kirchmeier‐young et al., 2019), as natural variability is smaller. while uncertainty in the best estimates of the risk ratios may be large, their lower bounds can be quite insensitive to uncertainties in observations or model descriptions, thus increasing confidence in conservative attribution statements (jeon et al., 2016). the relative strength of anthropogenic influences on temperature extremes is regionally variable, in part due to differences in changes in atmospheric circulation, land surface feedbacks, and other external drivers such as aerosols. for example, in the mediterranean and over western europe, risk ratios on the order of 100 have been found (kew et al., 2019; vautard et al., 2020), whereas in the usa, changes are much less pronounced. this is probably a reflection of the land surface feedback enhanced extreme 1930s temperatures that reduce the rarity of recent extremes, in addition to the definition of the events and framing of attribution analyses (e.g., spatial and temporal scales considered). local forcing may mask or enhance the warming effect of greenhouse gases. in india, short lived aerosols or an increase in irrigation may be masking the warming effect of greenhouse gases (wehner et al., 2018c). irrigation and crop intensification have been shown to lead to a cooling in some regions, in particular in north america, europe, and india (high confidence) (n.d. mueller et al., 2016; thiery et al., 2017, 2020; chen and dirmeyer, 2019). deforestation has contributed about one third of the total warming of hot extremes in some mid latitude regions since pre industrial times (lejeune et al., 2018). despite all of these differences, and larger uncertainties at the regional scale, nearly all studies demonstrated that human influence has contributed to an increase in the frequency or intensity of hot extremes and to a decrease in the frequency or intensity of cold extremes. in summary, long term changes in various aspects of long  and short duration extreme temperatures, including intensity, frequency, and duration have been detected in observations and attributed to human influence at global and continental scales. it is extremely likely that human influence is the main contributor to the observed increase in the intensity and frequency of hot extremes and the observed decrease in the intensity and frequency of cold extremes on the global scale. it is very likely that this applies on continental scales as well. some specific recent hot extreme events would have been extremely unlikely to occur without human influence on the climate system. changes in aerosol concentrations have affected trends in hot extremes in some regions, with the presence of aerosols leading to attenuated warming, in particular from 1950 to 1980. crop intensification, irrigation and no till farming have attenuated increases in summer hot extremes in some regions, such as central north america (medium confidence). the ar5 (chapter12, collins et al., 2013) concluded that it is virtually certain there will be more frequent hot extremes and fewer cold extremes at the global scale and over most land areas in a future warmer climate, and it is very likely that heatwaves will occur with a higher frequency and longer duration.the sr1.5 (chapter 3, hoegh guldberg et al., 2018) assessment on projected changes in hot extremes at 1.5°c and 2°c global warming is consistent with the ar5 assessment, concluding that it is very likely a global warming of 2°c, when compared with a 1.5°c warming, would lead to more frequent and more intense hot extremes on land, as well as to longer warm spells, affecting many densely inhabited regions. the sr1.5 also assessed it is very likely that the strongest increases in the frequency of hot extremes are projected for the rarest events, while cold extremes will become less intense and less frequent, and cold spells will be shorter. new studies since ar5 and sr1.5 confirm these assessments. new literature since ar5 includes projections of temperature related extremes in relation to changes in mean temperatures, projections based on cmip6 simulations, projections based on stabilized global warming levels, and the use of new metrics. constraints for the projected changes in hot extremes were also provided (borodina et al., 2017b; sippel et al., 2017b; vogel et al., 2017). overall, projected changes in the magnitude of extreme temperatures over land are larger than changes in global mean temperature, over mid latitude land regions in particular (figures 11.3, 11.11; fischer et al., 2014; seneviratne et al., 2016; b.m. sanderson et al., 2017; wehner et al., 2018b; di luca et al., 2020b). large warming in hot and cold extremes will occur, even at the 1.5°c gwl (figure 11.11). at this level, widespread significant changes at the grid box level occur for different temperature indices (aerenson et al., 2018). in agreement with cmip5 projections, cmip6 simulations show that a 0.5°c increment in global warming will significantly increase the intensity and frequency of hot extremes, and decrease the intensity and frequency of cold extremes on the global scale (figures 11.6, 11.8 and 11.12). it takes less than half of a degree for the changes in txx to emerge above the level of natural variability (figure 11.8) and the 66% ranges of the land medians of the 10 year or 50 year txx events do not overlap between 1.0°c and 1.5°c in the cmip6 multi model ensemble simulations(figure 11.6, li et al., 2021). projected warming is larger for tnn and exhibits strong equator to pole amplification, similar to the warming of boreal winter mean temperatures. the warming of txx is more uniform over land and does not exhibit this behaviour (figure 11.11). the warming of temperature extremes on global and regional scales tends to scale linearly with global warming (section 11.1.4; fischer et al., 2014; seneviratne et al., 2016; wartenburger et al., 2017; li et al., 2021; see also sr1.5, chapter 3). in the mid latitudes, the rate of warming of hot extremes can be as large as twice the rate of global warming (figure 11.11). in the arctic winter, the rate of warming of the temperature of the coldest nights is about three times the rate of global warming (appendix, figure 11.a.1). projected changes in temperature extremes can deviate from projected changes in annual mean warming in the same regions (figures 11.3, 11.a.1 and 11.a.2; di luca et al., 2020b; wehner, 2020) due to the additional processes that control the response of regional extremes, including, in particular, soil moisture evapotranspiration temperature feedbacks for hot extremes in the mid latitudes and subtropical regions, and snow/ice albedo temperature feedbacks in high latitude regions. the probability of exceeding a certain hot extreme threshold will increase, while those for cold extreme will decrease with global warming (b. mueller et al., 2016; lewis et al., 2017b; suarez gutierrez et al., 2020b). the changes tend to scale nonlinearly with the level of global warming, with larger changes for more rare events (section 11.2.4; cross chapter box 11.11; figures 11.6 and 11.12; fischer and knutti, 2015; kharin et al., 2018; li et al., 2021). for example, the cmip5 ensemble projects the frequency of the present day climate 20 year hottest daily temperature to increase by 80% at the 1.5°c gwl and by 180% at the 2.0°c gwl, and the frequency of the present day climate 100 year hottest daily temperature to increase by 200% and more than 700% at the 1.5°c and 2.0°c warming levels, respectively (kharin et al., 2018). cmip6 simulations project similar changes (li et al., 2021). tebaldi and wehner (2018) showed that, at the middle of the 21st century, 66% of the land surface area would experience the present day 20 year return values of txx and the running three day average of the daily maximum temperature every other year, on average, under the representative concentration pathway 8.5 (rcp8.5) scenario, as opposed to only 34% under rcp4.5. by the end of the century, these area fractions increase to 92% and 62%, respectively. such nonlinearities in the characteristics of future regional extremes are shown, for instance, for europe (dosio and fischer, 2018; spinoni et al., 2018b; lionello and scarascia, 2020), asia (guo et al., 2017; harrington and otto, 2018b; king et al., 2018), and australia (lewis et al., 2017a) under various global warming thresholds. the nonlinear increase in fixed threshold indices (e.g., based on a percentile for a given reference period, or on an absolute threshold) as a function of global warming is consistent with a linear warming of the absolute temperature of the temperature extremes (e.g., whan et al., 2015). compared to the historical climate, warming will result in strong increases in heatwave area, duration and magnitude (vogel et al., 2020b). these changes are mostly due to the increase in mean seasonal temperature, rather than changes in temperature variability, though the latter can have an effect in some regions (brown, 2020; di luca et al., 2020b; suarez gutierrez et al., 2020a). projections of temperature related extremes in rcms in the cordex regions demonstrate robust increases under future scenarios and can provide information on finer spatial scales than gcms (e.g., coppola et al., 2021b). five rcms in the cordex east asia region project increases in the 20 year return values of temperature extremes (summer maxima), with models that exhibit warm biases projecting stronger warming (park and min, 2019). similarly, in the african domain, future increases in tx90p and tn90p are projected (dosio, 2017; mostafa et al., 2019). this regional scale analysis provides fine scale information, such as distinguishing the increase in tx90p over sub equatorial africa (democratic republic of the congo, angola, and zambia) with values over the gulf of guinea, central african republic, south sudan, and ethiopia. empirical statistical downscaling has also been used to produce more robust estimates for future heatwaves compared to rcms based on large multi model ensembles (furrer et al., 2010; keellings and waylen, 2014; wang et al., 2015; benestad et al., 2018). in all continental regions, including africa (table 11.4), asia (table 11.7), australasia (table 11.10), central and south america (table 11.13), europe (table 11.16), north america (table 11.19) and at the continental scale, it is very likely that the intensity and frequency of hot extremes will increase and the intensity and frequency of cold extremes will decrease compared with the 1995 2014 baseline, even under 1.5°c global warming. those changes are virtually certain to occur under 4°c global warming. at the regional scale, and for almost all ar6 regions, it is likely that the intensity and frequency of hot extremes will increase and the intensity and frequency of cold extremes will decrease compared with the 1995 2014 baseline, even under 1.5°c global warming. those changes are virtually certain to occur under 4°c global warming. exceptions include lower confidence in the projected decrease in the intensity and frequency of cold extremes compared with the 1995 2014 baseline under 1.5°c of global warming (medium confidence) and 4°c of global warming (very likely) in northern central america, central north america, and western north america. in africa (table 11.4), evidence includes increases in the intensity and frequency of hot extremes, such as warm days, warm nights, and heatwaves, and decreases in the intensity and frequency of cold extremes, such as cold days and cold nights over the continent, as projected by cmip5, cmip6, and cordex simulations (giorgi et al., 2014; engelbrecht et al., 2015; lelieveld et al., 2016; russo et al., 2016; dosio, 2017; bathiany et al., 2018; mba et al., 2018; nangombe et al., 2018; weber et al., 2018; kruger et al., 2019; coppola et al., 2021b; li et al., 2021). cold spells are projected to decrease under all rcps, and even at low warming levels in western and central africa (diedhiou et al., 2018). the number of cold days is projected to decrease in east africa (ongoma et al., 2018b). in asia (table 11.7), evidence includes increases in the intensity and frequency of hot extremes, such as warm days, warm nights, and heatwaves, and decreases in the intensity and frequency of cold extremes, such as cold days and cold nights over the continent, as projected by cmip5, cmip6, and cordex simulations (sillmann et al., 2013b; zhou et al., 2014; r. zhang et al., 2015; zhao et al., 2015; pal and eltahir, 2016; singh and goyal, 2016; xu et al., 2017; gao et al., 2018; han et al., 2018; shin et al., 2018; sui et al., 2018; l. li et al., 2019; zhu et al., 2020). more intense heatwaves of longer durations and occurring at a higher frequency are projected over india (murari et al., 2015; mishra et al., 2017) and pakistan (nasim et al., 2018). future mid latitude warm extremes, similar to those experienced during the 2010 event, are projected to become more extreme, with temperature extremes increasing potentially by 8.4°c (rcp8.5) over north west asia (van der schrier et al., 2018). over west and east siberia, and russian far east, an increase in extreme heat durations is expected in all scenarios (sillmann et al., 2013b; kattsov et al., 2017; reyer et al., 2017). in the mena regions (arabian peninsula and western central asia), extreme temperatures could increase by almost 7°c by 2100 under rcp8.5 (lelieveld et al., 2016). in australasia (table 11.10), evidence includes increases in the intensity and frequency of hot extremes, such as warm days, warm nights, and heatwaves, and decreases in the intensity and frequency of cold extremes, such as cold days and cold nights over the continent, as projected by cmip5, cmip6, and cordex simulations (csiroand bom, 2015; alexander and arblaster, 2017; lewis et al., 2017a; herold et al., 2018; coppola et al., 2021b; evans et al., 2021). over most of australia, increases in the intensity and frequency of hot extremes are projected to be predominantly driven by the long term increase in mean temperatures (di luca et al., 2020b). future projections indicate a decrease in the number of frost days regardless of the region and season considered (alexander and arblaster, 2017; herold et al., 2018). in central and south america (table 11.13), evidence includes increases in the intensity and frequency of hot extremes, such as warm days, warm nights, and heatwaves, and decreases in the intensity and frequency of cold extremes, such as cold days and cold nights over the continent, as projected by cmip5, cmip6, and cordex simulations (chou et al., 2014a; cabré et al., 2016; lópez franca et al., 2016; stennett brown et al., 2017; coppola et al., 2021b; li et al., 2021; vichot llano et al., 2021). over south eastern south america during the austral summer, the increase in the frequency of tn90p is larger than that projected for tx90p, consistent with observed past changes (lópez franca et al., 2016). under rcp8.5, the number of heatwave days are projected to increase for the intra americas region for the end of the 21st century (angeles malaspina et al., 2018). a general decrease in the frequency of cold spells and frost days is projected, as indicated by several indices based on minimum temperature (lópez franca et al., 2016). in europe (table 11.16), evidence includes increases in the intensity and frequency of hot extremes, such as warm days, warm nights, and heatwaves, and decreases in the intensity and frequency of cold extremes, such as cold days and cold nights over the continent, as projected by cmip5, cmip6, and cordex simulations (lau and nath, 2014; ozturk et al., 2015; russo et al., 2015; schoetter et al., 2015; vogel et al., 2017; winter et al., 2017; jacob et al., 2018; lhotka et al., 2018; rasmijn et al., 2018; suarez gutierrez et al., 2018; cardoso et al., 2019; lionello and scarascia, 2020; molina et al., 2020; coppola et al., 2021b; li et al., 2021). increases in heatwaves are greater over the southern mediterranean and scandinavia (forzieri et al., 2016; abaurrea et al., 2018; dosio and fischer, 2018; rohat et al., 2019). thebiggest increases in the number of heatwave days are expected for southern european cities (guerreiro et al., 2018a; junk et al., 2019), and central european cities will see the biggest increases in maximum heatwave temperatures (guerreiro et al., 2018a). in north america (table 11.19), evidence includes increases in the intensity and frequency of hot extremes, such as warm days, warm nights, and heatwaves, and decreases in the intensity and frequency of cold extremes, such as cold days and cold nights over the continent, as projected by cmip5, cmip6, and cordex simulations (grotjahn et al., 2016; vose et al., 2017; alexandru, 2018; c. li et al., 2018, 2021; c. yang et al., 2018; x. zhang et al., 2019; coppola et al., 2021b). projections of temperature extremes for the end of the 21st century show that warm days and nights are very likely to increase, and cold days and nights are very likely to decrease in all regions. there is medium confidence in large increases in warm days and warm nights in summer, particularly over the usa, and in large decreases in cold days in canada in autumn and winter (grotjahn et al., 2016; vose et al., 2017; alexandru, 2018; c. li et al., 2018, 2021; c. yang et al., 2018; x. zhang et al., 2019; coppola et al., 2021b). minimum winter temperatures are projected to rise faster than mean winter temperatures (underwood et al., 2017). projections for the end of the century under rcp8.5 showed the four day cold spell that happens on average once every five years is projected to warm by more than 10°c. cmip5 models do not project current 1 in 20 year annual minimum temperature extremes to recur over much of the continent (wuebbles et al., 2014). in summary, it is virtually certain that further increases in the intensity and frequency of hot extremes, and decreases in the intensity and frequency of cold extremes, will occur throughout the 21st century and around the world. it is virtually certain that the number of hot days and hot nights and the length, frequency, and/or intensity of warm spells or heatwaves compared to 1995 2014 will increase over most land areas. in most regions, changes in the magnitude of temperature extremes are proportional to global warming levels (high confidence). the highest increase of temperature of hottest days is projected in some mid latitude and semi arid regions, at about 1.5 times to twice the rate of global warming (high confidence). the highest increase of temperature of coldest days is projected in arctic regions, at about three times the rate of global warming (high confidence). the probability of temperature extremes generally increases nonlinearly with increasing global warming levels (high confidence). confidence in assessments depends on the spatial and temporal scales of the extreme in question, with high confidence in projections of temperature related extremes at global and continental scales for daily to seasonal scales. there is high confidence that, on land, the magnitude of temperature extremes increases more strongly than global mean temperature. this section assesses changes in heavy precipitation at global and regional scales. the main focus is on extreme precipitation at a daily scale where literature is most concentrated, though extremes of shorter (sub daily) and longer (five day or more) durations are also assessed to the extent the literature allows. the srex (chapter 3, seneviratne et al., 2012) assessed changes in heavy precipitation in the context of the effects of thermodynamic and dynamic changes. box 11.1 assesses thermodynamic and dynamic changes in a warming world to aid the understanding of changes in observations and projections in some extremes and the sources of uncertainties (see also section 8.2.3.2). in general, warming increases the atmospheric water holding capacity following the clausius clapeyron (c c) relation. this thermodynamic effect results in an increase in extreme precipitation at a similar rate at the global scale. on a regional scale, changes in extreme precipitation are further modulated by dynamic changes (box 11.1). large scale modes of variability, such as the north atlantic oscillation (nao), el niño southern oscillation (enso), atlantic multi decadal variability (amv), and pacific decadal variability (pdv) (annex iv), modulate precipitation extremes through changes in environmental conditions or embedded storms (section 8.3.2). latent heating can invigorate these storms (nie et al., 2018; z. zhang et al., 2019a); changes in dynamics can increase precipitation intensity above that expected from the c c scaling rate (sections 8.2.3.2 and 11.7; box 11.1). additionally, the efficiency of converting atmospheric moisture into precipitation can change as a result of cloud microphysical adjustment to warming,resulting in changes in the characteristics of extreme precipitation; but changes in precipitation efficiency in a warming world are highly uncertain (sui et al., 2020). it is difficult to separate the effect of global warming from internal variability inthe observed changes in the modes of variability (section 2.4). future projections of modes of variability are highly uncertain section 4.3.3),resulting in uncertainty in regional projections of extreme precipitation. future warming may amplify monsoonal extreme precipitation. changes in extreme storms, including tropical/extratropical cyclones and severe convective storms, result in changes in extreme precipitation (section 11.7). also, changes in sea surface temperatures (ssts) alter land sea contrast, leading to changes in precipitation extremes near coastal regions. for example, the projected larger sst increase near the coasts of east asia and india can result in heavier rainfall near these coastal areas from tropical cyclones (mei and xie, 2016) or torrential rains (manda et al., 2014). the warming in the western indian ocean is associated with increases in moisture surges on the low level monsoon westerlies towards the indian subcontinent, which may lead to an increase in the occurrence of precipitation extremes over central india (krishnan et al., 2016; roxy et al., 2017). decreases in atmospheric aerosols results in warming and thus an increase in extreme precipitation (samset et al., 2018; sillmann et al., 2019). changes in atmospheric aerosols also result in dynamic changes such as in tropical cyclones (takahashi et al., 2017; strong et al., 2018). uncertainty in the projections of future aerosol emissions results in additional uncertainty in the heavy precipitation projections of the 21st century (lin et al., 2016). there has been new evidence of the effect of local land use and land cover change on heavy precipitation. there is a growing set of literature linking increases in heavy precipitation in urban centres to urbanization (argüeso et al., 2016; y. zhang et al., 2019b). urbanization intensifies extreme precipitation, especially in the afternoon and early evening, over the urban area and its downwind region (medium confidence) (box 10.3). there are four possible mechanisms: (i) increases in atmospheric moisture due to horizontal convergence of air associated with the urban heat island effect (shastri et al., 2015; argüeso et al., 2016); (ii) increases in condensation due to urban aerosol emissions (han et al., 2011; sarangi et al., 2017); (iii) aerosol pollution that impacts cloud microphysics (box 8.1; schmid and niyogi, 2017); and (iv) urban structures that impede atmospheric motion (shepherd, 2013; ganeshan and murtugudde, 2015; paul et al., 2018). other local forcing, including reservoirs (woldemichael et al., 2012), irrigation (devanand et al., 2019), or large scale land use and land cover change (odoulami et al., 2019), can also affect local extreme precipitation. in summary, precipitation extremes are controlled by both thermodynamic and dynamic processes. warming induced thermodynamic change results in an increase in extreme precipitation, at a rate that closely follows the c c relationship at the global scale (high confidence). the effects of warming induced changes in dynamic drivers on extreme precipitation are more complicated, difficult to quantify, and are an uncertain aspect of projections. precipitation extremes are also affected by forcings other than changes in greenhouse gases, including changes in aerosols, land use and land cover change, and urbanization (medium confidence). both srex (chapter 3, seneviratne et al., 2012) and ar5 (ipcc, 2014 chapter 2) concluded it was likely that the number of heavy precipitation events over land had increased in more regions than it had decreased, though there were wide regional and seasonal variations, and trends in many locations were not statistically significant. this assessment has been strengthened with multiple studies findingrobust evidence of the intensification of extreme precipitation at global and continental scales, regardless of spatial and temporal coverage of observations and the methods of data processing and analysis. the average annual maximum precipitation amount in a day (rx1day) has significantly increased since the mid 20th century over land (du et al., 2019; dunn et al., 2020) and in the humid and dry regions of the globe (dunn et al., 2020). the percentage of observing stations with statistically significant increases in rx1day is larger than expected by chance, while the percentage of stations with statistically significant decreases is smaller than expected by chance, over the global land as a whole and over north america, europe, and asia (figure 11.13; sun et al., 2021) and over global monsoon regions (zhang and zhou, 2019) where data coverage is relatively good. the addition of the past decade of observational data shows a more robust increase in rx1day over the global land region (sun et al., 2021). light, moderate, and heavy daily precipitation has all intensified in a gridded daily precipitation dataset (contractor et al., 2020a). daily mean precipitation intensities have increased since the mid 20th century in a majority of land regions (high confidence) (section 8.3.1.3). the probability of precipitation exceeding 50 mm/day increased during 1961 2018 (benestad et al., 2019). the globally averaged annual fraction of precipitation from days in the top 5% (r95ptot) has also significantly increased (dunn et al., 2020). the increase in the magnitude of rx1day in the 20th century is estimated to be at a rate consistent with c c scaling with respect to global mean temperature (fischer and knutti, 2016; sun et al., 2021). studies on past changes in extreme precipitation of durations longer than a day are more limited, though there are some studies examining long term trends in annual maximum five day precipitation (rx5day). on global and continental scales, long term changes in rx5day are similar to those of rx1day in many aspects (zhang and zhou 2019; sun et al., 2021). as discussed below, at the regional scale, changes in rx5day are also similar to those of rx1day where there are analyses of changes in both rx1day and rx5day. overall, there is a lack of systematic analysis of long term trends in sub daily extreme precipitation at the global scale. often, sub daily precipitation data have only sporadic spatial coverage and are of limited length. additionally, the available data records are far shorter than needed for a robust quantification of past changes in sub daily extreme precipitation (c. li et al., 2019a). despite these limitations, there are studies in regions of almost all continents that generally indicate intensification of sub daily extreme precipitation, although there remains low confidence in an overall increase at the global scale. studies include an increase in extreme sub daily rainfall in summer over south africa (sen roy and rouault, 2013), annually in australia (guerreiro et al., 2018b), over 23 urban locations in india (ali and mishra, 2018), in peninsular malaysia (syafrina et al., 2015), and in eastern china in the summer season during 1971 2013 (xiao et al., 2016). in some regions in italy (arnone et al., 2013; libertino et al., 2019) and in the usa during 1950 2011 (barbero et al., 2017), there is also an increase. in general, an increase in sub daily heavy precipitation results in an increase in pluvial floods over smaller watersheds (ghausi and ghosh, 2020). there is a considerable body of literature examining scaling of sub daily precipitation extremes, conditional on day to day air or dew point temperatures (westra et al., 2014; fowler et al., 2021). this scaling, also termed ‘apparent scaling’ (fowler et al., 2021), is robust when different methodologies are used in different regions, ranging between the c c and two times the c c rate (e.g., formayer and fritz, 2017; lenderink et al., 2017; burdanowitz et al., 2019). this is confirmed when sub daily precipitation data collected from multiple continents (lewis et al., 2019) are analysed in a consistent manner using different methods (ali et al., 2021). it has been hoped that apparent scaling might be used to help understand past and future changes in extreme sub daily precipitation. however, apparent scaling samples multiple synoptic weather states, mixing thermodynamic and dynamic factors that are not directly relevant for climate change responses (section 8.2.3.2; prein et al., 2016b; bao et al., 2017; x. zhang et al., 2017; drobinski et al., 2018; sun et al., 2020). the spatial pattern of apparent scaling is different from those of projected changes over australia (bao et al., 2017) and north america (sun et al., 2020) in regional climate model simulations. it thus remains difficult to use the knowledge about apparent scaling to infer past and future changes in extreme sub daily precipitation according to observed and projected changes in local temperature. in africa (table 11.5), evidence shows an increase in extreme daily precipitation for the late half of the 20th century over the continent where data are available; there is a larger percentage of stations showing significant increases in extreme daily precipitation than decreases (sun et al., 2021). there are increases in different metrics relevant to extreme precipitation in various regions of the continent (chaney et al., 2014; harrison et al., 2019; dunn et al., 2020; sun et al., 2021). there is an increase in extreme precipitation events in southern africa (weldon and reason, 2014; kruger et al., 2019) and a general increase in heavy precipitation over east africa, the greater horn of africa (omondi et al., 2014). over sub saharan africa, increases in the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation have been observed over the well gauged areas during 1950 2013; however, this covers only 15% of the total area of sub saharan africa (harrison et al., 2019). there is medium confidence about the increase in extreme precipitation for some regions where observations are more abundant, but for africa as whole, there is low confidence because of a general lack of continent wide systematic analysis, the sporadic nature of available precipitation data over the continent, and spatially non homogenous trends in places where dataare available (donat et al., 2014a; mathbout et al., 2018b; alexander et al., 2019; funk et al., 2020). in asia (table 11.8), there is robust evidence that extreme precipitation has increased since the 1950s (high confidence), however, this is dominated by high spatial variability. increases in rx1day and rx5day during 1950 2018 are found over two thirds of stations. the percentage of stations with statistically significant trends is larger than can be expected by chance (figure 11.13; sun et al., 2021). an increase in extreme precipitation has also been observed in various regional studies based on different metrics of extreme precipitation and spatial and temporal coverage of the data. these include an increase in daily precipitation extremes over central asia (hu et al., 2016), most of south asia (zahid and rasul, 2012; pai et al., 2015; sheikh et al., 2015; adnan et al., 2016; malik et al., 2016; dimri et al., 2017; priya et al., 2017; roxy et al., 2017; hunt et al., 2018; kim et al., 2019; wester et al., 2019), the arabian peninsula (rahimi and fatemi, 2019; almazroui and saeed, 2020; atif et al., 2020), south east asia (siswanto et al., 2015; supari et al., 2017; cheong et al., 2018); the north west himalaya (malik et al., 2016), parts of east asia (baeket al., 2017; nayak et al., 2017; ye and li, 2017), the western himalayas since the 1950s (ridley et al., 2013; dimri et al., 2015; madhura et al., 2015), west and east siberia, and russian far east (donat et al., 2016a). a decrease was found over the eastern himalayas (sheikh et al., 2015; talchabhadel et al., 2018). increases have been observed over jakarta (siswanto et al., 2015), but rx1day over most parts of the maritime continent has decreased (villafuerte and matsumoto, 2015). trends in extreme precipitation over china are mixed with increases and decreases (g. fu et al., 2013; jiang et al., 2013; ma et al., 2015; yin et al., 2015; xiao et al., 2016) and are not significant over china as whole (jiang et al., 2013; hu et al., 2016; ge et al., 2017; deng et al., 2018; he and zhai, 2018; w. li et al., 2018a; tao et al., 2018; m. liu et al., 2019b; chen et al., 2021). with few exceptions, most south east asian countries have experienced an increase in rainfall intensity, but with a reduced number of wet days (donat et al., 2016a; cheong et al., 2018; naveendrakumar et al., 2019), though large differences in trends exists if the trends are estimated from different datasets, including gauge based, remotely sensed, and reanalysis data, over a relatively short period (kim et al., 2019). there is a significant increase in heavy rainfall (>100 mm day 1) and a significant decrease in moderate rainfall (5 100 mm day 1) in central india during the south asian monsoon season (deshpande et al., 2016; roxy et al., 2017). in australasia (table 11.11), available evidence has not shown an increase or a decrease in heavy precipitation over australasia as a whole (medium confidence), but heavy precipitation tends to increase over northern australia (particularly the north west) and decrease over the eastern and southernregions (e.g., jakob and walland, 2016; guerreiro et al., 2018b; dey et al., 2019b; dunn et al., 2020; sun et al., 2021). available studies that used long term observations since the mid 20th century showed nearly as many stations with an increase as those with a decrease in heavy precipitation (jakob and walland, 2016) or slightly more stations with a decrease than with an increase in rx1day and rx5day (sun et al., 2021), or strong differences in rx1day trends with increases over northern australia and central australia in general, but mostly decreases over southern australia and eastern australia (dunn et al., 2020). over new zealand, decreases are observed for moderate heavy precipitation events, but there are no significant trends for very heavy events (more than 64 mm in a day) for the period 1951 2012. the number of stations with an increase in very wet days is similar to that with a decrease during 1960 2019 (mfe and stats nz, 2020). overall, there is low confidence in trends in the frequency of heavy rain days, with mostly decreases over new zealand (harringtonand renwick, 2014; caloiero, 2015). in central and south america (table 11.14), evidence shows an increase in extreme precipitation, but in general there is low confidence; while continent wide analyses produced wetting trends are not robust. rx1day increased at more stations than it decreased in south america between 1950 and 2018 (sun et al., 2021). over the period 1950 2010, both rx5day and r99p increased over large regions of south america, including north western south america, northern south america, and south eastern south america (skansi et al., 2013). there are large regional differences. a decrease in daily extreme precipitation is observed in north eastern brazil (skansi et al., 2013; bezerra et al., 2018; dereczynski et al., 2020). trends in extreme precipitation indices were not statistically significant over the period 1947 2012 within the são francisco river basin in the brazilian semi arid region (bezerra et al., 2018). an increase in extreme rainfall is observed in the amazon with medium confidence (skansi et al., 2013) and in south eastern south america with high confidence (skansi et al., 2013; valverde and marengo, 2014; barros et al., 2015; ávila et al., 2016; wu and polvani, 2017; lovino et al., 2018; dereczynski et al., 2020). among all sub regions, south eastern south america shows the highest rate of increase for rainfall extremes, followed by the amazon (skansi et al., 2013). increases in the intensity of heavy daily rainfall events have been observed in the southern pacific and in the titicaca basin (skansi et al., 2013; huerta and lavado‐casimiro, 2021). in southern central america, trends in annual precipitation are generally not significant, although small (but significant) increases are found in guatemala, el salvador, and panama (hidalgo et al., 2017). small positive trends were found in multiple extreme precipitation indices over the caribbean region over a short time period (1986 2010) (stephenson et al., 2014; mclean et al., 2015). in europe (table 11.17), there is robust evidence that the magnitude and intensity of extreme precipitation has very likely increased since the 1950s. there is a significant increase in rx1day and rx5day during 1950 2018 in europe as a whole (sun et al., 2021, also figure 11.13). the number of stations with increases far exceeds those with decreases in the frequency of daily rainfall exceeding its 90th or 95th percentile in century long series (cioffi et al., 2015). the five , 10 , and 20 year events of one day and five day precipitation during 1951 1960 became more common since the 1950s (van den besselaar et al., 2013). there can be large discrepancies among studies and regions and seasons (croitoru et al., 2013; willems, 2013; casanueva et al., 2014; roth et al., 2014; fischer et al., 2015); evidence for increasing extreme precipitation is more frequently observed for summer and winter, but not in other seasons (madsen et al., 2014; helama et al., 2018). an increase is observed in central europe (volosciuk et al., 2016; zeder and fischer, 2020), and in romania (croitoru et al., 2016). trends in the mediterranean region are in general not spatially consistent (reale and lionello, 2013), with decreases in the western mediterranean and some increases in the eastern mediterranean (rajczak et al., 2013; casanueva et al., 2014; de lima et al., 2015; gajić čapka et al., 2015; sunyer et al., 2015; pedron et al., 2017; serrano notivoli et al., 2018; ribes et al., 2019). in the netherlands, the total precipitation contributed from extremes higher than the 99th percentile doubles per 1°c increase in warming (myhre et al., 2019), though extreme rainfall trends in northern europe may differ in different seasons (irannezhad et al., 2017). in north america (table 11.20), there is robust evidence that the magnitude and intensity of extreme precipitation has very likely increased since the 1950s. both rx1day and rx5day have significantly increased in north america during 1950 2018 (sun et al., 2021, also figure 11.13). there is, however, regional diversity. in canada, there is a lack of detectable trends in observed annual maximum daily (or shorter duration) precipitation (shephard et al., 2014; mekis et al., 2015; vincent et al., 2018). in the usa, there is an overall increase in one day heavy precipitation, both in terms of intensity and frequency (villarini et al.,2012; donat et al., 2013b; wu, 2015; easterling et al., 2017; h. huang et al., 2017; howarth et al., 2019; sun et al., 2021), except for the southern usa (hoerling et al., 2016) where internal variability may have played a substantial role in the lack of observed increases. in mexico, increases are observed in r10mm and r95p (donat et al., 2016a), very wet days over the cities (garcía cueto et al., 2019) and in total precipitation (prcptot) and rx1day (donat et al., 2016b). in small islands, there is a lack of evidence showing changes in heavy precipitation overall. there were increases in extreme precipitation in tobago from 1985 2015 (stephenson et al., 2014; dookie et al., 2019) and decreases in south western french polynesia and the southern subtropics (low confidence) (table 11.5; atlas.10). extreme precipitation leading to flooding in the small islands has been attributed in part to tropical cyclones, as well as being influenced by enso (box 11.5; khouakhi et al., 2016; hoegh guldberg et al., 2018). in summary, the frequency and intensity of heavy precipitation have likely increased at the global scale over a majority of land regions with good observational coverage. since 1950, the annual maximum amount of precipitation falling in a day, or over five consecutive days, has likely increased over land regions with sufficient observational coverage for assessment, with increases in more regions than there are decreases. heavy precipitation has likely increased on the continental scale over three continents (north america, europe, and asia) where observational data are more abundant. there is very low confidence about changes in sub daily extreme precipitation due to the limited number of studies and available data. evaluating climate model competence in simulating heavy precipitation extremes is challenging due to a number of factors, including the lack of reliable observations and the spatial scale mismatch between simulated andobserved data (avila et al., 2015; alexander et al., 2019). simulated precipitation represents areal means, but station based observations are conducted at point locations and are often sparse. the areal reduction factor, the ratio between pointwise station estimates of extreme precipitation and extremes of the areal mean, can be as large as 130% at cmip6 resolutions (about 100 km) (gervais et al., 2014). hence, the order in which gridded station based extreme values are constructed (i.e., if the extreme values are extracted at the station first and then gridded, or if the daily station values are gridded and then the extreme values are extracted) represents different spatial scales of extreme precipitation and needs to be taken into account in model evaluation (wehner et al. 2020). this aspect has been considered in some studies. reanalysis products are used in place of station observations for their spatial completeness as well as spatial scale comparability(sillmann et al., 2013a; kim et al., 2020; li et al., 2021). however, reanalyses share similar parametrizations to the models themselves, reducing the objectivity of the comparison. different generations of cmip models have improved over time, though quite modestly (flato et al., 2013; watterson et al., 2014). improvements in the representation of the magnitude of the expert team on climate change detection and indices (etccdi) in cmip5 over cmip3(sillmann et al., 2013a; chen and sun, 2015a) have been attributed to higher resolution, as higher resolution models represent smaller areas at individual grid boxes. additionally, the spatial distribution of extreme rainfall simulated by high resolution models is generally more comparable to observations (sillmann et al., 2013b; kusunoki, 2017, 2018b; scher et al., 2017) as these models tend to produce more realistic storms compared to coarser models (section 11.7.2). higher horizontal resolution alone improves simulation of extreme precipitation in some models (wehner et al., 2014; kusunoki, 2017, 2018b), but this is insufficient in other models (bador et al., 2020) as parametrization also plays a significant role (m. wu et al., 2020). a simple comparison of climatology may not fully reflect the improvements of the new models that have more comprehensive process formulations (di luca et al., 2015). dittus et al. (2016) found that many of the eight cmip5 models they evaluated reproduced the observed increase in the difference between areas experiencing an extreme high (90%) and an extreme low (10%) proportion of the annual total precipitation from heavy precipitation (r95p/prcptot) for northern hemisphere regions. additionally, cmip5 models reproduced the relation between changes in extreme and non extreme precipitation: an increase in extreme precipitation is at the cost of a decrease in non extreme precipitation (thackeray et al., 2018), a characteristic found in the observational record (gu and adler, 2018). the cmip6 models perform reasonably well in capturing large scale features of precipitation extremes, including intense precipitation extremes in the intertropical convergence zone (itcz), and weak precipitation extremes in dry areas in the tropical regions (li et al., 2021) but a double itcz bias over the equatorial central and eastern pacific that appeared in cmip5 models remains (section 3.3.2.3). there are also regional biases in the magnitude of precipitation extremes (kim et al., 2020). the models also have difficulties in reproducing detailed regional patterns of extreme precipitation, such as over the north east usa (agel and barlow, 2020), though they performed better for summer extremes over the usa (akinsanola et al., 2020). the comparison between climatologies in the observations and in model simulations shows that the cmip6 and cmip5 models that have similar horizontal resolutions also have similar model evaluation scores, and their error patterns are highly correlated (wehner et al., 2020). in general, extreme precipitation in cmip6 models tends to be somewhat larger than in cmip5 models (li et al., 2021), reflecting smaller spatial scales of extreme precipitation represented by slightly higher resolution models (gervais et al., 2014). this is confirmed by kim et al. (2020), who showed that rx1day and rx5day simulated by cmip6 models tend to be closer to point estimates of hadex3 data (dunn et al., 2020) than those simulated by cmip5. figure 11.14 shows the multi model ensemble bias in mean rx1day over the period 1979 2014 from 21 available cmip6 models when compared with observations and reanalyses. measured by global land root mean square error, the model performance is generally consistent across different observed/reanalysis data products for the extreme precipitation metric (figure 11.14). the magnitude of extreme area mean precipitation simulated by the cmip6 models is consistently smaller than the point estimates of hadex3, but the model values are more comparable to those of areal mean values (figure 11.14) of the era5 reanalysis or regen (contractor et al., 2020b). taylor plot based performance metrics reveal strong similarities in the patterns of extreme precipitation errors over land regions between cmip5 and cmip6 (srivastava et al., 2020; wehner et al., 2020) and between annual mean precipitation errors and rx1day errors for both generations of models (wehner et al., 2020). in general, there is high confidence that historical simulations by cmip5 and cmip6 models of similar horizontal resolutions are interchangeable in their performance in simulating the observed climatology of extreme precipitation. studies using regional climate models (rcms), for example, cordex (giorgi et al., 2009) over africa (dosio et al., 2015; klutse et al., 2016; pinto et al., 2016; gibba et al., 2019), australia, east asia (park et al., 2016), europe (prein et al., 2016a; fantini et al., 2018), and parts of north america (diaconescu et al., 2018) suggest that extreme rainfall events are better captured in rcms compared to their host gcms due to their ability to address regional characteristics, for example, topography and coastlines. however, cordex simulations do not show good skill over south asia for heavy precipitation, and do not add value with respect to their gcm source of boundary conditions (mishra et al., 2014b; s. singh et al., 2017). the evaluation of models in simulating regional processes is discussed in detail in section 10.3.3.4. the high resolution simulation of mid latitude winter extreme precipitation over land is of similar magnitude to point observations. simulation of summer extreme precipitation has a large bias when compared with observations at the same spatial scale. simulated extreme precipitation in the tropics also appears to be too large, indicating possible deficiencies in the parametrization of cumulus convection at this resolution. indeed, precipitation distributions at both daily and sub daily time scales are much improved with a convection permitting model (belušić et al., 2020) over western africa (berthou et al., 2019b), east africa (finney et al., 2019), north america and canada (cannon and innocenti, 2019; innocenti et al., 2019) and over belgium in europe (vanden broucke et al., 2019). in summary, there is high confidence in the ability of models to capture the large scale spatial distribution of precipitation extremes over land. the magnitude and frequency of extreme precipitation simulated by cmip6 models are similar to those simulated by cmip5 models (high confidence). both srex (chapter 3, seneviratne et al., 2012) and ar5 (chapter 10, ipcc, 2014) concluded with medium confidence that anthropogenic forcing has contributed to a global scale intensification of heavy precipitation over the second half of the 20th century. these assessments were based on the evidence of anthropogenic influence on aspects of the global hydrological cycle, in particular, the human contribution to the warming induced observed increase in atmospheric moisture that leads to an increase in heavy precipitation, and limited evidence of anthropogenic influence on extreme precipitation of durations of one and five days. since ar5 there has been new and robust evidence and improved understanding of human influence on extreme precipitation. in particular, detection and attribution analyses have provided consistent and robust evidence of human influence on extreme precipitation of one  and five day durations at global to continental scales. the observed increases in rx1day and rx5day over the northern hemisphere land area during 1951 2005 can be attributed to the effect of combined anthropogenic forcing, including greenhouse gases and anthropogenic aerosols, as simulated by cmip5 models and the rate of intensification with regard to warming is consistent with c c scaling (zhang et al., 2013). this is confirmed to be robust when an additional nine years of observational data and the cmip6 model simulations were used (cross chapter box 3.2, figure 1; paik et al., 2020). the influence of greenhouse gases is attributed as the dominant contributor to the observed intensification. the global average of rx1day in the observations is consistent with simulations by both cmip5 and cmip6 models under anthropogenic forcing, but not under natural forcing (cross chapter box 3.2, figure 1). the observed increase in the fraction of annual total precipitation falling into the top fifth or top first percentiles of daily precipitation can also be attributed to human influence at the global scale (dong et al., 2021). the cmip5 models were able to capture the fraction of land experiencing a strong intensification of heavy precipitation during 1960 2010 under anthropogenic forcing, but not in unforced simulations (fischer et al., 2014). but the models underestimated the observed trends (borodina et al., 2017a). human influence also significantly contributed to the historical changes in record breaking one day precipitation (shiogama et al., 2016). there is also limited evidence of the influences of natural forcing. substantial reductions in rx5day and simple daily intensity index (sdii) for daily precipitation intensity over the global summer monsoon regions occurred during 1957 2000 after explosive volcanic eruptions (paik and min, 2018). the reduction in post volcanic eruption extreme precipitation in the simulations is closely linked to the decrease in mean precipitation, for which both thermodynamic effects (moisture reduction due to surface cooling) and dynamic effects (monsoon circulation weakening) play important roles. there has been new evidence of human influence on extreme precipitation at continental scales, including the detection of the combined effect of greenhouse gases and aerosol forcing on rx1day and rx5day over north america, eurasia, and mid latitude land regions (zhang et al., 2013) and of greenhouse gas forcing in rx1day and rx5day in the mid to high latitudes, western and eastern eurasia, and the global dry regions (paik et al., 2020). these findings are corroborated by the detection of human influence in the fraction of extreme precipitation in the total precipitation over asia, europe, and north america (dong et al., 2021). human influence was found to have contributed to the increase in frequency and intensity of regional precipitation extremes in north america during 1961 2010, based on optimal fingerprinting and event attribution approaches (kirchmeier young and zhang, 2020). tabari et al. (2020) found the observed latitudinal increase in extreme precipitation over europe to be consistent with model simulated responses to anthropogenic forcing. evidence of human influence on extreme precipitation at regional scales is more limited and less robust. in north west australia, the increase in extreme rainfall since 1950 can be related to increased monsoonal flow due to increased aerosol emissions, but cannot be attributed to an increase in greenhouse gases (dey et al., 2019a). anthropogenic influence on extreme precipitation in china was detected in one study (h. li et al., 2017), but not in another using different detection and data processing procedures (w. li et al., 2018a), indicating the lack of robustness in the detection results. a still weak signal to noise ratio seems to be the main cause for the lack of robustness, as detection would become robust 20 years in the future (w. li et al., 2018a). krishnan et al. (2016) attributed the observed increase in heavy rain events (intensity >100 mm day 1) in the post 1950s over central india to the combined effects of greenhouse gases, aerosols, land use and land cover changes, and rapid warming of the equatorial indian ocean ssts. roxyet al. (2017) and devanand et al. (2019) showed that the increase in widespread extremes over the south asian monsoon during 1950 2015 is due to the combined impacts of the warming of the western indian ocean (arabian sea) and the intensification of irrigation water management over india. anthropogenic influence may have affected the large scale meteorological processes necessary for extreme precipitation and the localized thermodynamic and dynamic processes, both contributing to changes in extreme precipitation events. several new methods have been proposed to disentangle these effects by either conditioning on the circulation state or attributing analogues. in particular, the extremely wet winter of 2013 2014 in the uk can be attributed, approximately to the same degree, to both temperature induced increases in saturation vapour pressure and changes in the large scale circulation (vautard et al., 2016; yiou et al., 2017). there are multiple cases indicating that very extreme precipitation may increase at a rate more than the c c rate (7% per 1°c of warming) (pall et al., 2017; risser and wehner, 2017; van der wiel et al., 2017; van oldenborgh et al., 2017; s. y.s. wang et al., 2018). event attribution studies found an influence of anthropogenic activities on the probability or magnitude of observed extreme precipitation events, including european winters (schaller et al., 2016; otto et al., 2018b), extreme 2014 precipitation over the northern mediterranean (vautard et al., 2015), parts of the usa for individual events (knutson et al., 2014a; szeto et al., 2015; eden et al., 2016; van oldenborgh et al., 2017), extreme rainfall in 2014 over northland, new zealand (rosier et al., 2015) or china (burke et al., 2016; sun and miao, 2018; yuan et al., 2018b; zhou et al., 2018). however, for other heavy rainfall events, studies identified a lack of evidence about anthropogenic influences (imada et al., 2013; schaller et al., 2014; otto et al., 2015c; siswanto et al., 2015). there are also studies where results are inconclusive because of limited reliable simulations (christidis et al., 2013b; angélil et al., 2016). overall, both the spatial and temporal scales on which extreme precipitation events are defined are important for attribution; events defined on larger scales have larger signal to noise ratios and thus the signal is more readily detectable. at the current level of global warming, there is a strong enough signal to be detectable for large scale extreme precipitation events, but the chance of detecting such signals for smaller scale events decreases (kirchmeier young et al., 2019). in summary, most of the observed intensification of heavy precipitation over land regions is likely due to anthropogenic influence, for which greenhouse gases emissions are the main contributor. new and robust evidence since ar5 includes attribution to human influence of the observed increases in annual maximum one day and five day precipitation and in the fraction of annual precipitation falling in heavy events. the evidence since ar5 also includes a larger fraction of land showing enhanced extreme precipitation and a larger probability of record breaking one day precipitation than expected by chance, both of which can only be explained when anthropogenic greenhouse gas forcing is considered. human influence has contributed to the intensification of heavy precipitation in three continents where observational data are more abundant (high confidence) (north america, europe and asia). on the spatial scale of ar6 regions, there is limited evidence of human influence on extreme precipitation, but new evidence is emerging; in particular, studies attributing individual heavy precipitation events found that human influence was a significant driver of the events, particularly in the winter season. the ar5 concluded it is very likely that extreme precipitation events will be more frequent and more intense over most of the mid latitude land masses and wet tropics in a warmer world (collins et al., 2013). post ar5 studies provide more and robust evidence to support the previous assessments. these include an observed increase in extreme precipitation (section 11.4.3) and human causes of past changes (section 11.4.4), as well as projections based on either gcm and/or rcm simulations. the cmip5 models project that the rate of increase in rx1day with warming is independent of the forcing scenario (section 8.5.3.1; pendergrass et al., 2015) or forcing mechanism (sillmann et al., 2017a). this is confirmed in cmip6 simulations (sillmann et al., 2019; li et al., 2021). in particular, for extreme precipitation that occurs once a year or less frequently, the magnitudes of the rates of change per 1°c change in global mean temperature are similar, regardless of whether the temperature change is caused by increases in carbon dioxide (co2), methane (ch4), solar forcing, or sulphate (so4) (sillmann et al., 2019). in some models   cesm1 in particular   the extreme precipitation response to warming may follow a quadratic relation (pendergrass et al., 2019). figure 11.15 shows changes in the 10  and 50 year return values of rx1day at different warming levels as simulated by the cmip6 models. the median value of the scaling over land, across all shared socio economic pathway (ssp) scenarios and all models, is close to 7% per 1°c of warming for the 50 year return value of rx1day. it is just slightly smaller for the 10  and 50 year return values of rx5day (li et al., 2021). the 90% ranges of the multimodel ensemble changes across all land grid boxes in the 50 year return values for rx1day and rx5day do not overlap between 1.5°c and 2°c warming levels (li et al., 2021), indicating that a small increment such as 0.5°c in global warming can result in a significant increase in extreme precipitation. projected long period rx1day return value changes are larger than changes in mean rx1day and with larger relative changes for more rare events (pendergrass, 2018; mizuta and endo, 2020; wehner, 2020). the rate of change of moderate extreme precipitation may depend more on the forcing agent, similar to the mean precipitation response to warming (lin et al., 2016, 2018). thus, there is high confidence that extreme precipitation that occurs once a year or less frequently increases proportionally to the amount of surface warming, and the rate of change in precipitation is not dependent on the underlying forcing agents of warming. the spatial patterns of the projected changes across different warming levels are quite similar, as shown in figure 11.16, and confirmed by near linear scaling between extreme precipitation and global warming levels at regional scales (seneviratne and hauser, 2020). internal variability modulates changes in heavy rainfall (wood and ludwig, 2020), resulting in different changes in different regions (seneviratne and hauser, 2020). extreme precipitation nearly always increases across land areas with larger increases at higher global warming levels, except in very few regions, such as southern europe around the mediterranean basin at low warming levels (table 11.17). the very likely ranges of the multi model ensemble changes across all land grid boxes in the 50 year return values for rx1day and rx5day between 1.5°c and 1°c warming levels are above zero for all continents except europe, with the lower bound of the likely range above zero over europe (li et al., 2021). decreases in extreme precipitation are confined mostly to subtropical ocean areas and are highly correlated to decreases in mean precipitation due to storm track shifts. these subtropical decreases can extend to nearby land areas in individual realizations. projected increases in the probability of extreme precipitation of fixed magnitudes are nonlinear and show larger increases for more rare events (figures 11.7 and 11.15; fischer and knutti, 2015; kharin et al., 2018; li et al., 2021).the cmip5 model projected increases in the probability of high (99th and 99.9th) percentile precipitation between 1.5°c and 2°c warming scenarios are consistent with what can be expected based on observed changes (fischer and knutti, 2015), providing confidence in the projections. the cmip5 model simulations show that the frequency for present day climate 20 year extreme precipitation is projected to increase by 10% at the 1.5°c global warming level, and by 22% at the 2.0°c global warming level, while the increase in the frequency for present day climate 100 year extreme precipitation is projected to increase by 20% and more than 45% at the 1.5°c and 2.0°c warming levels, respectively (kharin et al., 2018). cmip6 simulations with ssp scenarios show that the frequency of 10 year and 50 year events will be approximately doubled and tripled, respectively, at a very high warming level of 4°c (figure 11.7; li et al., 2021). there is a limited number of studies on the projections of extreme hourly precipitation. the ability of gcms to simulate hourly precipitation extremes is limited (morrison et al., 2019) and very few modelling centres archive sub daily and hourly precipitation prior to cmip6 experiments. rcm simulations project an increase in extreme sub daily precipitation in north america (c. li et al., 2019b) and sweden (olsson and foster, 2013), but these models still do not explicitly resolve convective processes that are important for properly simulating extreme sub daily precipitation. simulations by rcms that explicitly resolve convective processes (convection permitting models) are limited in length and only available in a few regions because of high computing costs. yet, a majority of the available convection permitting simulations project increases in the intensities of extreme sub daily precipitation events, with the amount similar to or higher than the c c scaling rate (kendon et al., 2014, 2019; ban et al., 2015; prein et al., 2016b; helsen et al., 2020; fowler et al., 2021). an increase is projected in extreme sub daily precipitation over africa (kendon et al., 2019); east africa (finney et al., 2020) and western africa (berthou et al., 2019a; fitzpatrick et al., 2020), even for areas where parametrized rcms project a decrease; in europe (hodnebrog et al., 2019; chan et al., 2020); as well as in the continental usa (prein et al., 2016b). overall, while limited, the available evidence points to an increase in extreme sub daily precipitation in the future. studies on future changes in extreme precipitation for a month or longer are limited. one study projects an increase in extreme monthly precipitation in japan under 4°c global warming for around 80% of stations in the summer (hatsuzuka and sato, 2019). in africa (table 11.5), extreme precipitation will likely increase under warming levels of 2°c or below (compared to pre industrial values) and very likely increase at higher warming levels. simulations by cmip5, cmip6 and cordex regional models project an increase in daily extreme precipitation between 1.5°c and 2.0°c warming levels. the pattern of change in heavy precipitation under different scenarios or warming levels is similar with larger increases for higher warming levels (e.g., nikulin et al., 2018; li et al., 2021). with increases in warming, extreme precipitation is projected to increase in the majority of land regions in africa (mtongori et al., 2016; pfahl et al., 2017; diedhiou et al., 2018; dunning et al., 2018; akinyemi and abiodun, 2019; giorgi et al., 2019). over southern africa, heavy precipitation will likely increase by the end of the 21st century under rcp 8.5 (dosio, 2016; pinto et al., 2016; abiodun et al., 2017; dosio et al., 2019). however, heavy rainfall amounts are projected to decrease over western south africa (pinto et al., 2018) as a result of a projected decrease in the frequency of the prevailing westerly winds south of the continent that translates into fewer cold fronts and closed mid latitudes cyclones (engelbrecht et al., 2009; pinto et al., 2018). heavy precipitation will likely increase by the end of the century under rcp8.5 in west africa (diallo et al., 2016; dosio, 2016; sylla et al., 2016; abiodun et al., 2017; akinsanola and zhou, 2019; dosio et al., 2019) and is projected to increase (high confidence) in central africa (fotso nguemo et al., 2018, 2019; sonkoué et al., 2019) and eastern africa (thiery et al., 2016; ongoma et al., 2018a). in north east and central east africa, extreme precipitation intensity is projected to increase across cmip5, cmip6 and cordex core (high confidence) in most areas annually (coppola et al., 2021a), but the trends differ from season to season in all future scenarios (dosio et al., 2019). in northern africa, there is low confidence in the projected changes in heavy precipitation, either due to a lack of agreement among studies on the sign of changes (sillmann et al., 2013a; giorgi et al., 2014) or due to insufficient evidence. in asia (table 11.8), extreme precipitation will likely increase at global warming levels of 2°c and below, butvery likely increase at higher warming levels for the region as whole. the cmip6 multi model median projects an increase in the 10  and 50 year return values of rx1day and rx5day over more than 95% of regions, even at the 2°c warming level, with larger increases at higher warming levels, independent of emissions scenarios (li et al., 2021, also figure 11.7). the cmip5 models produced similar projections. both heavy rainfall and rainfall intensity are projected to increase (zhou et al., 2014; guo et al., 2016, 2018; y. xu et al., 2016; endo et al., 2017; han et al., 2018; g. kim et al., 2018). a half degree difference in warming between the 1.5°c and 2.0°c warming levels can result in a detectable increase in extreme precipitation over the region (li et al., 2021), in the asian australian monsoon region (chevuturi et al., 2018), and over south asia and china (d. lee et al., 2018; w. li et al., 2018b). while there are regional differences, extreme precipitation is projected to increase in almost all sub regions, though there can be spatial heterogeneity within sub regions, such as in india (shashikanth et al., 2018) and south east asia (ohba and sugimoto, 2019). in east and south east asia, there is high confidence that extreme precipitation is projected to intensify (seo et al., 2014; zhou et al., 2014; y. xu et al., 2016; nayak et al., 2017; x. wang et al., 2017; y. wang et al., 2017; guo et al., 2018; d. li et al., 2018; sui et al., 2018). extreme daily precipitation is also projected to increase in south asia (xu et al., 2017; han et al., 2018; shashikanth et al., 2018). the extreme precipitation indices, including rx5day, r95p, and days of heavy precipitation (i.e., r10mm), are all projected to increase under the rcp4.5 and rcp8.5 scenarios in central and northern asia (xu et al., 2017; han et al., 2018). a general wetting across the whole tibetan plateau and the himalayas is projected, with increases in heavy precipitation in the 21st century (palazzi et al., 2013; zhou et al., 2014; rajbhandari et al., 2015; r. zhang et al., 2015; wu et al., 2017; gao et al., 2018; paltan et al., 2018). agreement in projected changes by different models is low in regions of complex topography such as hindu kush himalayas (roy et al., 2019), but cmip5, cmip6 and cordex core simulations consistently project an increase in heavy precipitation in higher latitude areas, such as west and east siberia, and russian far east (high confidence) (coppola et al., 2021a). in australasia (table 11.11), most cmip5 models project an increase in rx1day under rcp4.5 and rcp8.5 scenarios for the late 21st century (csiro and bom, 2015; alexander and arblaster, 2017; grose et al., 2020) and the cmip6 multi model median projects an increase in the 10  and 50 year return values of rx1day and rx5day at a rate between 5% and 6% per 1°c of near surface global mean warming (figure 11.7; li et al., 2021). yet, there is large uncertainty in the increase because projected changes in dynamic processes lead to a decrease in rx1day that can offset the thermodynamic increase over a large portion of the region (box 11.1, figure 1; pfahl et al., 2017). projected changes in moderate extreme precipitation (the 99th percentile of daily precipitation) by rcms under rcp8.5 for 2070 2099 are mixed, with more regions showing decreases than increases (evans et al., 2021). it is likely that daily rainfall extremes such as rx1day will increase at the continental scale for global warming levels at or above 3°c. daily rainfall extremes are projected to increase at the 2.0°c global warming level (medium confidence), and there is low confidence in changes at the 1.5°c. projected changes show important regional differences with very likely increases over northern australia (alexander and arblaster, 2017; herold et al., 2018; grose et al., 2020) and new zealand (mfe, 2018) where projected dynamic contributions are small (box 11.1 figure 1; pfahl et al., 2017) and medium confidence on increases over central, eastern, and southern australia where dynamic contributions are substantial and can affect local phenomena (csiro and bom, 2015; pepler et al., 2016; bell et al., 2019; dowdy et al., 2019). in central and south america (table 11.14), extreme precipitation will likely increase at global warming levels of 2°c and below, butvery likely increase at higher warming levels for the region as whole. a larger increase in global surface temperature leads to a larger increase in extreme precipitation, independent of emissions scenarios (li et al., 2021). but there are regional differences in the projection, and projected changes for more moderate extreme precipitation are also more uncertain. extreme precipitation, represented by the number of days with daily precipitation exceeding 50 mm and the annual fraction of precipitation falling during days with the top 10% daily precipitation amount, is projected to increase on the eastern coast of southern central america, but to decrease along the pacific coasts of el salvador and guatemala (imbach et al., 2018). chouet al. (2014b) and giorgi et al. (2014) projected an increase in extreme precipitation over south eastern south america and the amazon. projected changes in moderate extreme precipitation represented by the 99th percentile of daily precipitation by different models under different emissions scenarios, even at high warming levels, are mixed: increases are projected for all regions by the cordex core and cmip5 simulations, while increases for some regions and decreases for other regions are projected by cmip6 simulations (coppola et al., 2021a). extreme precipitation is projected to increase in the la plata basin (cavalcanti et al., 2015; carril et al., 2016). taylor et al. (2018) projected a decrease in days with intense rainfall in the caribbean under 2°c global warming by the 2050s under rcp4.5 relative to 1971 2000. in europe (table 11.17), extreme precipitation will likely increase at global warming levels of 2°c and below, butvery likely increase for higher warming levels for the region as whole. the cmip6 multi model median projects an increase in the 10  and 50 year return values of rx1day and rx5day over a majority of the region at the 2°c global warming level, with more than 95% of the region showing an increase at higher warming levels (figure 11.7; c. li et al., 2021). the most intense precipitation events observed today in europe are projected to almost double in occurrence for each 1°c of further global warming (myhre et al., 2019). extreme precipitation is projected to increase in both boreal winter and summer over europe (madsen et al., 2014; christensen et al., 2015; nissen and ulbrich, 2017). there are regional differences, with decreases or no change for the southern part of europe, such as the southern mediterranean (tramblay and somot, 2018; lionello and scarascia, 2020; coppola et al., 2021a), uncertain changes over central europe (argüeso et al., 2012; croitoru et al., 2013; rajczak et al., 2013; casanueva et al., 2014; patarčić et al., 2014; paxian et al., 2014; roth et al., 2014; fischer and knutti, 2015; monjo et al., 2016) and a strong increase in the remaining parts, including the alps region (gobiet et al., 2014; donnelly et al., 2017), particularly in winter (fischer et al., 2015), and in northern europe. in a 3°c warmer world, there will be a robust increase in extreme rainfall over 80% of land areas in northern europe (madsen et al., 2014; donnelly et al., 2017; cardell et al., 2020). in north america (table 11.20), the intensity and frequency of extreme precipitation will likely increase at the global warming levels of 2°c and below, and very likely increase at higher warming levels. an increase is projected by cmip6 model simulations (li et al., 2021) and by previous model generations (wu,2015; easterling et al., 2017; innocenti et al., 2019), as well as by rcms (coppola et al., 2021a). projections of extreme precipitation over the southern portion of the continent and over mexico are more uncertain, with decreases possible (sillmann et al., 2013b; alexandru, 2018; coppola et al., 2021a). in summary, heavy precipitation will generally become more frequent and more intense with additional global warming. at global warming levels of 4°c relative to the pre industrial, very rare (e.g., one in 10 or more years) heavy precipitation events would become more frequent and more intense than in the recent past, on the global scale (virtually certain), and in all continents and ar6 regions: the increase in frequency and intensity is extremely likely for most continents and very likely for most ar6 regions. the likelihood is lower at lower global warming levels and for less rare heavy precipitation events. at the global scale, the intensification of heavy precipitation will follow the rate of increase in the maximum amount of moisture that the atmosphere can hold as it warms (high confidence), of about 7% per 1°c of global warming. the increase in the frequency of heavy precipitation events will be non linear with more warming and will be higher for rarer events (high confidence), with 10  and 50 year events to be approximately double and triple, respectively, at the 4°c warming level. increases in the intensity of extreme precipitation events at regional scales will depend on the amount of regional warming as well as changes in atmospheric circulation and storm dynamics leading to regional differences in the rate of heavy precipitation changes (high confidence). floods are the inundation of normally dry land, and are classified into types (e.g., pluvial floods, flash floods, river floods, groundwater floods, surge floods, coastal floods) depending on the space and time scales and the major factors and processes involved (section 8.2.3.2; nied et al., 2014; aerts et al., 2018). flooded area is difficult to measure or quantify and, for this reason, many of the existing studies on changes in floods focus on streamflow. thus, this section assesses changes in flow as a proxy for river floods, in addition to some types of flash floods. pluvial and urban floods   types of flash floods resulting from the precipitation intensity exceeding the capacity of natural and artificial drainage systems   are directly linked to extreme precipitation. because of this link, changes in extreme precipitation are the main proxy for inferring changes in pluvial and urban floods (see also section 12.4), assuming there is no additional change in the surface condition. changes in these types of floods are not assessed in this section, but can be inferred from the assessment of changes in heavy precipitation in section 11.4. coastal floods due to extreme sea levels and flood changes at regional scales are assessed in section 12.4. since ar5, the number of studies on understanding how floods may have changed, and will change in the future, has substantially increased. floods are a complex interplay of hydrology, climate, and human management, and the relative importance of these factors varies for different flood types and regions. in addition to the amount and intensity of precipitation, the main factors for river floods include antecedent soil moisture (paschalis et al., 2014; berghuijs et al., 2016; grillakis et al., 2016; woldemeskel and sharma, 2016) and snow water equivalent in cold regions (sikorska et al., 2015; berghuijs et al., 2016). other factors are also important, including stream morphology (borga et al., 2014; slater et al., 2015), river and catchment engineering (pisaniello et al., 2012; nakayama and shankman, 2013; kim and sanders, 2016), land use and land cover characteristics (aich et al., 2016; rogger et al., 2017) and changes (knighton et al., 2019), and feedbacks between climate, soil, snow, vegetation, etc. (hall et al., 2014; ortega et al., 2014; berghuijs et al., 2016; buttle et al., 2016; teufel et al., 2019). water regulation and management have, in general, increased resilience to flooding (formetta and feyen, 2019), masking effects of an increase in extreme precipitation on flood probability in some regions, even though they do not eliminate very extreme floods (vicente serrano et al., 2017). this means that an increase in precipitation extremes may not always result in an increase in river floods (sharma et al., 2018; do et al., 2020). yet, as very extreme precipitation can become a dominant factor for river floods, there can be some correspondence in the changes in very extreme precipitation and river floods (ivancic and shaw, 2015; wasko and sharma, 2017; wasko and nathan, 2019). this has been observed in the western mediterranean (llasat et al., 2016), in china (q. zhang et al., 2015a) and in the usa (peterson et al., 2013b; berghuijs et al., 2016; slater and villarini, 2016). in regions with a seasonal snow cover, snowmelt is the main cause of extreme river flooding over large areas (pall et al., 2019). extensive snowmelt combined with heavy and/or long duration precipitation can cause significant floods (d. li et al., 2019; krug et al., 2020). changes in floods in these regions can be uncertain because of the compounding and competing effects of the responses of snow and rain to warming that affect snowpack size: warming results in an increase in precipitation, but also a reduction in the time period of snowfall accumulation (teufel et al., 2019). an increase in atmospheric co2 enhances water use efficiency by plants (roderick et al., 2015; milly and dunne, 2016; swann et al., 2016; swann, 2018); this could reduce evapotranspiration and contribute to the maintenance of soil moisture and streamflow levels under enhanced atmospheric co2 concentrations (yang et al., 2019). this mechanism would suggest an increase in the magnitude of some floods in the future (kooperman et al., 2018). but this effect is uncertain as an increase in leaf area index, and vegetation coverage could also result in overall larger water consumption (mátyás and sun, 2014; mankin et al., 2019; teuling et al., 2019), and there are also other co2  related mechanisms that come into play (cross chapter box 5.1). various factors, such as extreme precipitation (cho et al., 2016; archer and fowler, 2018), glacier lake outbursts (schneider et al., 2014; schwanghart et al., 2016), or dam breaks (biscarini et al., 2016) can cause flash floods. very intense rainfall, along with a high fraction of impervious surfaces can result in flash floods in urban areas (hettiarachchi et al., 2018). because of this direct connection, changes in very intense precipitation can translate to changes in urban flood potential (rosenzweig et al., 2018), though there can be a spectrum of urban flood responses to this flood potential (smith et al., 2013), as many factors, such as the overland flow rate and the design of urban (falconer et al., 2009) and storm water drainage systems (maksimović et al., 2009), can play an important role. nevertheless, changes in extreme precipitation are the main proxy for inferring changes in some types of flash floods, (which are addressed in section 12.4), given the relation between extreme precipitation and pluvial floods, the very limited literature on urban and pluvial floods (e.g., skougaard kaspersen et al., 2017), and limitations of existing methodologies for assessing changes in floods (archer et al., 2016). in summary, there is not always a one to one correspondence between an extreme precipitation event and a flood event, or between changes in extreme precipitation and changes in floods, because floods are affected by many factors in addition to heavy precipitation (high confidence). changes in extreme precipitation may be used as a proxy to infer changes in some types of flash floods that are more directly related to extreme precipitation (high confidence). the srex (seneviratne et al., 2012) assessed low confidence for observed changes in the magnitude or frequency of floods at the global scale. this assessment was confirmed by ar5 (hartmann et al., 2013). the sr1.5 (hoegh guldberg et al., 2018) found increases in flood frequency and extreme streamflow in some regions, but decreases in other regions. while the number of studies on flood trends has increased since ar5, and there were also new analyses after the release of sr1.5 (berghuijs et al., 2017; blöschl et al., 2019; gudmundsson et al., 2019), hydrological literature on observed flood changes is heterogeneous, focusing at regional and sub regional basin scales, making it difficult to synthesize at the global and sometimes regional scales. the vast majority of studies focus on river floods using streamflow as a proxy, with limited attention to urban floods. streamflow measurements are not evenly distributed over space, with gaps in spatial coverage, and their coverage in many regions of africa, south america, and parts of asia is poor (e.g., do et al., 2017), leading to difficulties in detecting long term changes in floods (slater and villarini, 2017). see also section 8.3.1.5. peak flow trends are characterized by high regional variability and lack overall statistical significance of a decrease or an increase over the globe as a whole. of more than 3500 streamflow stations in the usa, central and northern europe, africa, brazil, and australia, 7.1% stations showed a significant increase, and 11.9% stations showed a significant decrease in annual maximum peak flow during 1961 2005 (do et al., 2017). this is in direct contrast to the global and continental scale intensification of short duration extreme precipitation (section 11.4.2). there may be some consistency over large regions (see gudmundsson et al., 2019), in high streamflows (>90th percentile), including a decrease in some regions (e.g., in the mediterranean) and an increase in others (e.g., northern asia), but gauge coverage is often limited. on a continental scale, a decrease seems to dominate in africa (tramblay et al., 2020) and australia (ishak et al., 2013; wasko and nathan, 2019), an increase in the amazon (barichivich et al., 2018), and trends are spatially variable in other continents (q. zhang et al., 2015b; bai et al., 2016; do et al., 2017; hodgkins et al., 2017). in europe, flow trends have large spatial differences (hall et al., 2014; mediero et al., 2015; kundzewicz et al., 2018; mangini et al., 2018), but there appears to be a pattern of increase in north western europe, and a decrease in southern and eastern europe in annual peak flow during 1960 2000 (blöschl et al., 2019). in north america, peak flow has increased in north east usa and decreased in south west usa (peterson et al., 2013b; armstrong et al., 2014; mallakpour and villarini, 2015; archfield et al., 2016; burn and whitfield, 2016; wehner et al., 2017; neri et al., 2019). there are important changes in the seasonality of peak flows in regions where snowmelt dominates, such as northern north america (burn and whitfield, 2016; dudley et al., 2017) and northern europe (blöschl et al., 2017), corresponding to strong winter and spring warming. in summary, the seasonality of floods has changed in cold regions where snowmelt dominates the flow regime in response to warming (high confidence). there is low confidence about peak flow trends over past decades on the global scale , but there are regions experiencing increases, including parts of asia, southern south america, north east usa, north western europe, and the amazon, and regions experiencing decreases, including parts of the mediterranean, australia, africa, and south western usa. hydrological models used to simulate floods are structurally diverse (dankers et al., 2014; mateo et al., 2017; şen, 2018), often requiring extensive calibration since sub grid processes and land surface properties need to be parametrized, irrespective of the spatial resolutions (döll et al., 2016; krysanova et al., 2017). the data used to drive and calibrate the models are usually of coarse resolution, necessitating the use of a wide variety of downscaling techniques (muerth et al., 2013). this adds uncertainty not only to the models but also to the reliability of the calibrations. the quality of the flood simulations also depends on the spatial scale, as flood processes are different for catchments of different sizes. it is more difficult to replicate flood processes for large basins, as water management and water use are often more complex for these basins. studies that use different regional hydrological models show a large spread in flood simulations (dankers et al., 2014; roudier et al., 2016; trigg et al., 2016; krysanova et al., 2017). regional models reproduce moderate and high flows reasonably well (0.02 0.1 flow annual exceedance probabilities), but there are large biases for the most extreme flows (0 0.02 annual flow exceedance probability), independent of the climatic and physiographic characteristics of the basins (s. huang et al., 2017a). global scale hydrological models have even more challenges, as they struggle to reproduce the magnitude of the flood hazard (trigg et al., 2016). also, the ensemble mean of multiple models does not perform better than individual models (zaherpour et al., 2018). the use of hydrological models for assessing changes in floods, especially for future projections, adds another dimension of uncertainty on top of uncertainty in the driving climate projections, including emissions scenarios, and in the driving climate models (both rcms and gcms) (arnell and gosling, 2016; hundecha et al., 2016; krysanova et al., 2017). the differences in hydrological models (roudier et al., 2016; thober et al., 2018), as well as post processing of climate model output for the hydrological models (muerth et al., 2013; maier et al., 2018), add to uncertainty for flood projections. in summary, there is medium confidence that simulations for the most extreme flows by regional hydrological models can have large biases. global scale hydrological models still struggle with reproducing the magnitude of floods. projections of future floods are hampered by these difficulties and cascading uncertainties, including uncertainties in emissions scenarios and the climate models that generate inputs. there are very few studies focused on the attribution of long term changes in floods, but there are studies on changes in flood events. most of the studies focus on flash floods and urban floods, which are closely related to intense precipitation events (hannaford, 2015). in other cases, event attribution focused on runoff using hydrological models, and examples include river basins in the uk (section 11.4.4; schaller et al., 2016; kay et al., 2018), the okavango river in africa (wolski et al., 2014), and the brahmaputra river in bangladesh (philip et al., 2019). findings about anthropogenic influences vary between different regions and basins. for some flood events, the probability of high floods in the current climate is lower than in a climate without an anthropogenic influence (wolski et al., 2014), while in other cases anthropogenic influence leads to more intense floods (cho et al., 2016; pall et al., 2017; van der wiel et al., 2017; philip et al., 2018a; teufel et al., 2019). factors such as land cover change and river management can also increase the probability of high floods (ji et al., 2020). these, along with model uncertainties and the lack of studies overall, suggest a low confidence in general statements to attribute changes in flood events to anthropogenic climate change. a few individual regions have been well studied, which allows for high confidence in the attribution of increased flooding in these cases. for example, flooding in the uk following increased winter precipitation (schaller et al., 2016; kay et al., 2018) can be attributed to anthropogenic climate change (schaller et al., 2016; vautard et al., 2016; yiou et al., 2017; otto et al., 2018b). attributing changes in heavy precipitation to anthropogenic activities (section 11.4.4) cannot be readily translated to attributing changes in floods to human activities, because precipitation is only one of the multiple factors, albeit an important one, that affect floods. for example, teufel et al. (2017) showed that, while human influence increased the odds of the flood producing rainfall for the 2013 alberta flood in canada, it was not detected to have influenced the probability of the flood itself. schaller et al. (2016) showed that human influence on the increase in the probability of heavy precipitation translated linearly into an increase in the resulting river flow of the thames in the uk in winter 2014, but its contribution to the inundation was inconclusive. gudmundsson et al. (2021) compared the spatial pattern of the observed regional trends in high river flows (>90th percentile) over 1971 2010 with that simulated by global hydrological models. the hydrological models were driven by outputs of climate model simulations under all historical forcing and pre industrial forcing conditions. they found complex spatial patterns of extreme river flow trends. they also found the observed spatial patterns of trends can be reproduced only if anthropogenic climate change is considered, and that simulated effects of water and land management cannot reproduce the observed spatial pattern of trends. as there is only one study and multiple caveats associated with the study, including relatively poor observational data coverage, there is low confidence about human influence on the changes in high river flows on the global scale. in summary there is low confidence in the human influence on the changes in high river flows on the global scale. in general, there is low confidence in attributing changes in the probability or magnitude of flood events to human influence because of a limited number of studies, differences in the results of these studies and large modelling uncertainties. the srex (chapter 3, seneviratne et al., 2012) stressed the low availability of studies on flood projections under different emissions scenarios, and concluded that there was low confidence in projections of flood events given the complexity of the mechanisms driving floods at the regional scale. the ar5 wgii report (chapter 3, jimenez cisneros et al., 2014) assessed with medium confidence the pattern of future flood changes, including flood hazards increasing over about half of the globe (parts of southern and south east asia, tropical africa, north east eurasia, and south america) and flood hazards decreasing in other parts of the world, despite uncertainties in gcms and their coupling to hydrological models. the sr1.5 (chapter 3, hoegh guldberg et al., 2018) assessed with medium confidence that global warming of 2°c would lead to an expansion of the fraction of global area affected by flood hazards, compared to conditions at 1.5°c of global warming, as a consequence of changes in heavy precipitation. the majority of new studies that produce future flood projections based on hydrological models do not typically consider aspects that are also important to actual flood severity or damages, such as flood prevention measures (neumann et al., 2015; şen, 2018), flood control policies (barraqué, 2017), and future changes in land cover (see also section 8.4.1.5). at the global scale, alfieri et al. (2017) used downscaled projections from seven gcms as input to drive a hydrodynamic model. they found successive increases in the frequency of high floods in all continents except europe, associated with increasing levels of global warming (1.5°c, 2°c, 4°c). these results are supported by paltan et al. (2018), who applied a simplified runoff aggregation model forced by outputs from four gcms. s. huang et al. (2018) used three hydrological models forced with bias adjusted outputs from four gcms to produce projections for four river basins including the rhine, upper mississippi, upper yellow, and upper niger under 1.5°c, 2°c, and 3°c global warming. this study found diverse projections for different basins, including a shift towards earlier flooding for the rhine and the upper mississippi, a substantial increase in flood frequency in the rhine only under the 1.5°c and 2°c scenarios, and a decrease in flood frequency in the upper mississippi under all scenarios. at the continental and regional scales, the projected changes in floods are uneven in different parts of the world, but there is a larger fraction of regions with an increase than with a decrease over the 21st century (hirabayashi et al., 2013; dankers et al., 2014; arnell and gosling, 2016; döll et al., 2018). these results suggestmedium confidence in flood trends at the global scale, but low confidence in projected regional changes. increases in flood frequency or magnitude are identified for south eastern and northern asia and india (high agreement across studies), eastern and tropical africa, and the high latitudes of north america (medium agreement), while decreasing frequency or magnitude is found for central and eastern europe and the mediterranean (high confidence), and parts of south america, southern and central north america, and south west africa (low confidence) (hirabayashi et al., 2013; dankers et al., 2014; arnell and gosling, 2016; döll et al., 2018). over south america, most studies based on global and regional hydrological models show an increase in the magnitude and frequency of high flows in the western amazon (guimberteau et al., 2013; langerwisch et al., 2013; sorribas et al., 2016; zulkafli et al., 2016) and the andes (hirabayashi et al., 2013; bozkurt et al., 2018). section 12.4 provides a detailed assessment of regional flood projections. in summary, global hydrological models project a larger fraction of land areas to be affected by an increase in river floods than by a decrease in river floods (medium confidence). there is medium confidence that river floods will increase in the western amazon, the andes, and south eastern and northern asia. regional changes in river floods are more uncertain than changes in pluvial floods because complex hydrological processes and forcings are involved, including land cover change and human water management. droughts refer to periods of time with substantially below average moisture conditions, usually covering large areas, during which limitations in water availability result in negative impacts for various components of natural systems and economic sectors (wilhite and pulwarty, 2017; ault, 2020). depending on the variables used to characterize it and the systems or sectors being impacted, drought may be classified in different types (figure 8.6 and appendix table 11.a.1) such as meteorological (precipitation deficits), agricultural(e.g., crop yield reductions or failure, often related to soil moisture deficits), ecological (related to plant water stress that causes e.g., tree mortality), or hydrologicaldroughts (e.g., water shortage in streams or storages such as reservoirs, lakes, lagoons, and groundwater; see glossary). the distinction of drought types is not absolute, as drought can affect different sub domains of the earth system concomitantly, but sometimes also asynchronously, including propagation from one drought type to another (brunner and tallaksen, 2019). because of this, drought cannot be characterized using a single universal definition (lloyd hughes, 2014) or directly measured based on a single variable (srex chapter 3; wilhite and pulwarty, 2017). drought can happen on a wide range of timescales   from ‘flash droughts’ on a scale of weeks, and characterized by a sudden onset and rapid intensification of drought conditions (hunt et al., 2014; otkin et al., 2018; pendergrass et al., 2020) to multi year or decadal rainfall deficits   sometimes termed ‘megadroughts’ (see glossary; ault et al., 2014; cook et al., 2016b; garreaud et al., 2017). droughts are often analysed using indices that are measures of drought severity, duration and frequency (sections 8.3.1.6, 8.4.1.6, 12.3.2.6 and 12.3.2.7, and table 11.a.1). there are many drought indices published in the scientific literature, as also highlighted in srex (srex chapter 3). these can range from anomalies in single variables (e.g., precipitation, soil moisture, runoff, evapotranspiration) to indices combining different atmospheric variables. this assessment is focused on changes in physical conditions and metrics of direct relevance to droughts: (i) precipitation deficits; (ii) excess of atmospheric evaporative demand (aed); (iii) soil moisture deficits; (iv) hydrological deficits; and e) atmospheric based indices combining precipitation and aed (table 11.a.1). in the regional tables (section 11.9), the assessment is structured by drought types, addressing: (i) meteorological, (ii) agricultural and ecological, and (iii) hydrological droughts. note that the latter two assessments directly inform the chapter 12 assessment on projected regional changes in these climatic impact drivers (section 12.4). the text refers to ar6 region acronyms (section 11.9, and see section 1.4.5). similar to many other extreme events, droughts occur as a combination of thermodynamic and dynamic processes (box 11.1). thermodynamic processes contributing to drought, which are modified by greenhouse gas forcing both at global and regional scales, are mostly related to heat and moisture exchanges, and are also partly modulated by plant coverage and physiology. they affect, for instance, atmospheric humidity, temperature, and radiation, which in turn affect precipitation and/or evapotranspiration in some regions and time frames. however, dynamic processes are particularly important to explain drought variability on different time scales, from a few weeks (flash droughts) to multiannual (megadroughts). there is low confidence in the effects of greenhouse gas forcing on changes in atmospheric dynamic (section 2.4; section 4.3.3), and on associated changes in drought occurrence. thermodynamic processes are thus the main driver of drought changes in a warming climate (high confidence). lack of precipitation is generally the main factor controlling drought onset. there is high confidence that atmospheric dynamics, which vary on interannual, decadal and longer time scales, is the dominant contributor to variations in precipitation deficits in the majority of world regions (dai, 2013; miralles et al., 2014b; seager and hoerling, 2014; burgman and jang, 2015; dong and dai, 2015; schubert et al., 2016; raymond et al., 2018; baek et al., 2019; drumond et al., 2019; herrera estrada et al., 2019; gimeno et al., 2020; mishra, 2020). precipitation deficits are driven by dynamic mechanisms taking place on different spatial scales, including synoptic processes   atmospheric rivers and extratropical cyclones, blocking and ridges (section 11.7; sousa et al., 2017), dominant large scale circulation patterns (kingston et al., 2015), and global ocean atmosphere coupled patterns such as inter decadal pacific oscillation (ipo), atlantic multi decadal oscillation (amo) and el niño southern oscillation (enso; dai and zhao, 2017). these various mechanisms occur on different scales, are not independent, and substantially interact with one another. also regional moisture recycling and land atmosphere feedbacks play an important role for some precipitation anomalies (see below). there is high confidence that land atmosphere feedbacks play a substantial or dominant role in affecting precipitation deficits in someregions (srex, chapter 3; koster et al., 2011; gimeno et al., 2012; taylor et al., 2012; guillod et al., 2015; tuttle and salvucci, 2016; santanello jr. et al., 2018; haslinger et al., 2019; herrera estrada et al., 2019). the sign of the feedbacks can be either positive or negative, as well as local or non local (taylor et al., 2012; guillod et al., 2015; tuttle and salvucci, 2016). earth system models (esms) tend to underestimate non local negative soil moisture precipitation feedbacks (taylor et al., 2012) and also show high variations in their representation in some regions (berg et al., 2017b). soil moisture precipitation feedbacks contribute to changes in precipitation in climate model projections in some regions, but esms display substantial uncertainties in their representation, and there is thus onlylow confidence in these contributions (berg et al., 2017b; vogel et al., 2017, 2018). atmospheric evaporative demand (aed) quantifies the maximum amount of actual evapotranspiration (et) that can happen from land surfaces if they are not limited by water availability (table 11.a.1). aed is affected by radiative and aerodynamic components. for this reason, the atmospheric dryness, often quantified with the relative humidity or the vapour pressure deficit (vpd), is not equivalent to the aed, as other variables are also highly relevant, including solar radiation and wind speed (hobbins et al., 2012; mcvicar et al., 2012a; sheffield et al., 2012). aed can be estimated using different methods (mcmahon et al., 2013), and those solely based on air temperature (e.g., hargreaves, thornthwaite) usually overestimate it in terms of magnitude and temporal trends (sheffield et al., 2012), in particular, in the context of substantial background warming. physically based combination methods such as the penman monteith equation are more adequate and recommended since 1998 by the united nations food and agriculture oganization (pereira et al., 2015). for this reason, the assessment of this chapter, when considering atmospheric based drought indices, only includes aed estimates using the latter (see also section 11.9). aed is generally higher than et, since aed represents an upper bound for et. hence, an aed increase does not necessarily lead to increased et (milly and dunne, 2016), in particular under drought conditions given soil moisture limitation (bonan et al., 2014; berg et al., 2016; konings et al., 2017; stocker et al., 2018). in general, aed is highest in regions where et is lowest (e.g., desert areas), further illustrating the decoupling between the two variables under limited soil moisture. the influence of aed on drought depends on the drought type, background climate, the environmental conditions and the moisture availability (hobbins et al., 2016, 2017; vicente serrano et al., 2020a). this influence also includes effects not related to increased et. under low soil moisture conditions, increased aed increases plant stress, enhancing the severity of agricultural and ecological droughts (williams et al., 2013; allen et al., 2015; mcdowell et al., 2016; grossiord et al., 2020). moreover, high vpd impacts overall plant physiology; it affects the leaf and xylem safety margins, and decreases the sap velocity and plant hydraulic conductance (fontes et al., 2018). vpd also affects the plant metabolism of carbon and, if prolonged, it may cause plant mortality via carbon starvation (breshears et al., 2013; hartmann, 2015). drought projections based exclusively on aed metrics overestimate changes in soil moisture and runoff deficits. nevertheless, aed also directly impacts hydrological drought, as et from surface waters is not limited (wurbs and ayala, 2014; friedrich et al., 2018; hogeboom et al., 2018; k. xiao et al., 2018), and this effect increases under climate change projections (w. wang et al., 2018; althoff et al., 2020). in addition, high aed increases crop water consumptions in irrigated lands (garcía garizábal et al., 2014), contributing to intensifying hydrological droughts downstream (fazel et al., 2017; vicente serrano et al., 2017). on subseasonal to decadal scales, temporal variations in aed are strongly controlled by circulation variability (williams et al., 2014; chai et al., 2018; martens et al., 2018), but thermodynamic processes also play a fundamental role and, under human induced climate change, dominate the changes in aed. atmospheric warming due to increased atmospheric co2 concentrations increases aed by means of enhanced vpd in the absence of other influences (scheff and frierson, 2015). because of the greater warming over land than over oceans (sections 2.3.1.1 and 11.3), the saturation pressure of water vapour increases more over land than over oceans; oceanic air masses advected over land thus contain insufficient water vapour to keep pace with the greater increase in saturation vapour pressure over land (sherwood and fu, 2014; byrne and o’gorman, 2018; findell et al., 2019). land atmosphere feedbacks are also important in affecting atmospheric moisture content and temperature, with resulting effects on relative humidity and vpd (box 11.1; berg et al., 2016; haslinger et al., 2019; s. zhou et al., 2019). soil moisture shows an important correlation with precipitation variability (khong et al., 2015; seager et al., 2019), but et also plays a substantial role in further depleting moisture from soils, in particular in humid regions during periods of precipitation deficits (teuling et al., 2013; padrón et al., 2020). in addition, soil moisture plays a role in drought self intensification under dry conditions in which et is decreased and leads to higher aed (miralles et al., 2019), an effect that can also contribute to triggering flash droughts (otkin et al., 2016, 2018; deangelis et al., 2020; pendergrass et al., 2020). if soil moisture becomes limited, et is reduced, which may decrease the rate of soil drying, but can also lead to further atmospheric dryness through various feedback loops (seneviratne et al., 2010; miralles et al., 2014a, 2019; teuling, 2018; vogel et al., 2018; s. zhou et al., 2019; liu et al., 2020). the process is complex since vegetation cover plays a role in modulating albedo and in providing access to deeper stores of water (both in the soil and groundwater). also, changes in land cover and in plant phenology may alter et (sterling et al., 2013; woodward et al., 2014; frank et al., 2015; döll et al., 2016; ukkola et al., 2016; trancoso et al., 2017; hao et al., 2019; lian et al., 2020). snow depth has strong and direct impacts on soil moisture in many systems (gergel et al., 2017; williams et al., 2020). soil moisture directly affects plant water stress and et. soil moisture is the primary factor that controls xylem hydraulic conductance   that is, water uptake in plants (sperry et al., 2016; hayat et al., 2019; x. chen et al., 2020). for this reason, soil moisture deficits are the main driver of xylem embolism, the primary cause of plant mortality (anderegg et al., 2012, 2016; rowland et al., 2015). also carbon assimilation by plants strongly depends on soil moisture (hartzell et al., 2017), with implications for carbon starvation and plant dying if soil moisture deficits are prolonged (sevanto et al., 2014). these mechanisms explain that soil moisture deficits are usually more relevant than aed excess to explain gross primary production anomalies and vegetation stress, mostly in sub humid and semi arid regions (stocker et al., 2018; liu et al., 2020). high co2 concentrations are shown to potentially decrease plant et and increase plant water use efficiency, affecting soil moisture levels, but this effect interacts with other co2 physiological and radiative effects (section 11.6.5.2 and cross chapter box 5.1), and has less relevance under low soil moisture (morgan et al., 2011; z. xu et al., 2016; nackley et al., 2018; dikšaitytė et al., 2019). esms represent both surface (around 10cm) and total column soil moisture, whereby total soil moisture is of more direct relevance for root water uptake, in particular by trees. there is evidence that surface soil moisture projections are substantially drier than total soil moisture projections, and may overestimate drying of relevance for most vegetation (berg et al., 2017a). drivers of streamflow and surface water deficits are complex and strongly depend on the hydrological system analysed (e.g., streamflows in the headwaters, medium course of the rivers, groundwater, highly regulated hydrological basins). soil hydrological processes, which control the propagation of meteorological droughts throughout different parts of the hydrological cycle (van loon and van lanen, 2012), are spatially and temporally complex (herrera estrada et al., 2017; s. huang et al., 2017b) and difficult to quantify (van lanen et al., 2016; apurv et al., 2017; caillouet et al., 2017; konapala and mishra, 2017; hasan et al., 2019). the physiographic characteristics of the basins also affect how droughts propagate throughout the hydrological cycle (van loon and van lanen, 2012; van lanen et al., 2013; van loon, 2015; konapala and mishra, 2020; veettil and mishra, 2020). in addition, the assessment of groundwater deficits is very difficult given the complexity of processes that involve natural and human driven feedbacks and interactions with the climate system (taylor et al., 2013). streamflow and surface water deficits are affected by land cover, groundwater and soil characteristics (van lanen et al., 2013; van loon and laaha, 2015; barker et al., 2016; tijdeman et al., 2018), as well as human activities (water management and demand, damming) and land use changes (section 11.6.4.3; van loon et al., 2016; he et al., 2017; veldkamp et al., 2017; j. wu et al., 2018; y. xu et al., 2019; jehanzaib et al., 2020). finally, snow and glaciers are relevant for water resources in some regions. for instance, warming affects snowpack levels (dierauer et al., 2019; huning and aghakouchak, 2020), as well as the timing of snow melt, thus potentially affecting the seasonality and magnitude of low flows (barnhart et al., 2016). given the difficulties of drought quantification and data constraints, atmospheric based drought indices combining both precipitation and aed have been developed, as they can be derived from meteorological data that is available in most regions (with few exceptions). these demand/supply indices are not intended to be metrics of soil moisture, streamflow or vegetation water stress. because of their reliance on precipitation and aed, they are mostly related to the actual water balance in humid regions, in which et is not limited by soil moisture and tends towards aed. in water limited regions and in dry periods everywhere, they constitute an upper bound for overall water balance deficits (e.g., of surface waters) but are also related to conditions conducive to vegetation stress, particularly under soil moisture limitation (section 11.6.1.2). although there are many atmospheric based drought indices, two are assessed in this chapter: the palmer drought severity index (pdsi) and the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (spei). the pdsi has been widely used to monitor and quantify drought severity (dai et al., 2018), but is affected by some constraints (srex chapter 3; mukherjee et al., 2018a). although the calculation of the pdsi is based on a soil water budget, the pdsi is essentially a climate drought index that mostly responds to the precipitation and the aed (van der schrier et al., 2013; vicente serrano et al., 2015; dai et al., 2018). the spei also combines precipitation and aed, being equally sensitive to these two variables (vicente serrano et al., 2015). the spei is more sensitive to aed than the pdsi (cook et al., 2014a; vicente serrano et al., 2015), although under humid and normal precipitation conditions, the effects of aed on the spei are small (tomas burguera et al., 2020). given the limitations associated with temperature based aed estimates (section 11.6.1.2), only studies using the penman monteith based spei and pdsi (hereafter spei pm and pdsi pm) are considered in this assessment and in the regional tables in section 11.9. this chapter assesses changes in meteorological drought, agricultural and ecological droughts, and hydrological droughts. precipitation based indices are used for the estimation of changes in meteorological droughts, such as the standardized precipitation index (spi) and the number of consecutive dry days (cdd). changes in total soil moisture and soil moisture based drought events are used for the estimation of changes in agricultural and ecological droughts, complemented by changes in surface soil moisture, water balance estimates (precipitation minus et), and spei pm and pdsi pm. for hydrological droughts, changes in low flows are assessed, sometimes complemented by changes in mean streamflow. in summary, different drought types exist and they are associated with different impacts and respond differently to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations. precipitation deficits and changes in evapotranspiration govern net water availability. a lack of sufficient soil moisture, sometimes amplified by increased atmospheric evaporative demand, result in agricultural and ecological drought. lack of runoff and surface water result in hydrological drought. drought events are the result of dynamic and/or thermodynamic processes, with thermodynamic processes being the main driver of drought changes under human induced climate change (high confidence). evidence on observed drought trends was limited at the time of srex (chapter 3) and ar5 (chapter 2). the srex concluded: ‘there is medium confidence that since the 1950s some regions of the world have experienced a trend to more intense and longer droughts, in particular in southern europe and west africa, but in some regions droughts have become less frequent, less intense, or shorter, for example, in central north america and north western australia.’ the assessment at the time did not distinguish between different drought types. this chapter includes numerous updates on observed drought trends, associated with extensive new literature and longer datasets since ar5. strong precipitation deficits have been recorded in recent decades in the amazon (2005, 2010), south western china (2009 2010), south western north america (2011 2014), australia (1997 2009), california (2014), the middle east (2012 2016), chile (2010 2015), the great horn of africa (2011), among others (van dijk et al., 2013; mann and gleick, 2015; rowell et al., 2015; marengo and espinoza, 2016; dai and zhao, 2017; garreaud et al., 2017, 2020; marengo et al., 2017; brito et al., 2018; cook et al., 2018). global studies generally show no significant trends in spi time series (orlowsky and seneviratne, 2013; spinoni et al., 2014), and in derived drought frequency and severity data (spinoni et al., 2019), with very few regional exceptions (section 11.9 and figure 11.17). long term decreases in precipitation are found in some ar6 regions in africa (central africa and east southern africa), and several regions in south america (north eastern south america, south american monsoon, south western south america, and southern south america) (section 11.9). evidence of precipitation based drying trends is also found in western africa, consistent with studies based on cdd trends (figure 11.17; chaney et al., 2014; donat et al., 2014b; barry et al., 2018; dunn et al., 2020), however, there is a partial recovery of the rainfall trends since the 1980s in this region (section 10.4.2.1). some ar6 regions show a decrease in meteorological drought, including northern australia, central australia, northern europe and central north america (section 11.9). other regions either do not show substantial trends in long term meteorological drought, or they display mixed signals depending on the considered time frame and sub regions, such as in southern australia (gallant et al., 2013; delworth and zeng, 2014; alexander and arblaster, 2017; spinoni et al., 2019; dunn et al., 2020; rauniyar and power, 2020) and the mediterranean (camuffo et al., 2013; gudmundsson and seneviratne, 2016; spinoni et al., 2017; stagge et al., 2017; caloiero et al., 2018; peña angulo et al., 2020b; see also section 11.9 and atlas.8.2). in several regions, aed increases have intensified recent drought events (williams et al., 2014, 2020; seager et al., 2015b; basara et al., 2019; garcía herrera et al., 2019), enhanced vegetation stress (allen et al., 2015; sanginés de cárcer et al., 2018; yuan et al., 2019), or contributed to the depletion of soil moisture or runoff through enhanced et (high confidence) (teuling et al., 2013; padrón et al., 2020). trends in pan evaporation measurements and penman monteith aed estimates provide an indication of possible trends in the influence of aed on drought. given the observed global temperature increases (sections 2.3.1.1 and 11.3) and dominant decrease in relative humidity over land areas (simmons et al., 2010; willett et al., 2014), vpd has increased globally (barkhordarian et al., 2019; yuan et al., 2019). pan evaporation has increased as a consequence of vpd changes in several ar6 regions, such as east asia (li et al., 2013; z. sun et al., 2018; m. z. yang et al., 2018), western and central europe (mozny et al., 2020), the mediterranean, (azorin molina et al., 2015) and central and southern australia (stephens et al., 2018). nevertheless, there is an important regional variability in observed trends, and in other ar6 regions pan evaporation has decreased   for example, in north central america (breña naranjo et al., 2017) and in the tibetan plateau (c. zhang et al., 2018)). physical models also show an important regional diversity, with an increase in new zealand (salinger and porteous, 2014) and the mediterranean (gocic and trajkovic, 2014; azorin molina et al., 2015; piticar et al., 2016), a decrease in south asia (jhajharia et al., 2015), and strong spatial variability in north america (seager et al., 2015b). this variability is driven by the role of other meteorological variables affecting aed. changes in solar radiation as a consequence of solar dimming and brightening may affect trends (section 7.2.2.2; kambezidis et al., 2012; wang and yang, 2014; sanchez lorenzo et al., 2015). wind speed is also relevant (mcvicar et al., 2012b), and studies suggest a reduction of the wind speed in some regions (z. zhang et al., 2019b) that could compensate the role of the vpd increase. nevertheless, the vpd trend seems to dominate the overall aed trends, compared to the effects of trends in wind speed and solar radiation (wang et al., 2012; park williams et al., 2017; vicente serrano et al., 2020a). there are limited long term measurements of soil moisture from ground observations (dorigo et al., 2011; qiu et al., 2016; quiring et al., 2016), which impedes their use in the analysis of trends. among the few existing observational studies covering at least two decades, several studies have investigated trends in ground soil moisture in east asia (section 11.9; chen and sun, 2015b; liu et al., 2015; qiu et al., 2016). alternatively, microwave based satellite measurements of surface soil moisture have also been used to analyse trends (dorigo et al., 2012; jia et al., 2018). although there is regional evidence that microwave based soil moisture estimates can capture well drying trends in comparison with ground soil moisture observations (jia et al., 2018), there is only medium confidence in the derived trends, since satellite soil moisture data are affected by inhomogeneities (dorigo et al., 2015; rodell et al., 2018; preimesberger et al., 2021). furthermore, microwave based satellites only sense surface soil moisture, which differs from root zone soil moisture (berg et al., 2017a), although relationships can be derived between the two (brocca et al., 2011). several studies have also analysed long term soil moisture time series from observation driven land surface or hydrological models, including land based reanalysis products (albergel et al., 2013; jia et al., 2018; gu et al., 2019b; markonis et al., 2021). such models have also been used to assess changes in land water availability, estimated as precipitation minus et, which is equal to the sum of soil moisture and runoff (greve et al., 2014; padrón et al., 2020). overall, evidence from global studies suggests that several land regions have been affected by increased soil moisture drying or water balance drying in past decades, despite some spread among products (albergel et al., 2013; greve et al., 2014; gu et al., 2019b; padrón et al., 2020). drying has not only occurred in dry regions but also in humid regions (greve et al., 2014). some studies have specifically addressed changes in soil moisture at regional scale (section 11.9). for ar6 regions, several studies suggest an increase in the frequency and areal extent of soil moisture deficits, with examples in east asia (cheng et al., 2015; y. qin et al., 2015; jia et al., 2018), western and central europe (trnka et al., 2015b), and the mediterranean (hanel et al., 2018; moravec et al., 2019; markonis et al., 2021). nonetheless, some analyses also show no long term trends in soil drying in some ar6 regions   for example, in eastern north america (park williams et al., 2017) and central north america (seager et al., 2019), as well as in north eastern africa (kew et al., 2021). the soil moisture drying trends identified in both global and regional studies are generally related to increases in et (associated with higher aed) rather than decreases in precipitation, as identified on global land for trends in water balance in the dry season (padrón et al., 2020), as well as for some regions (teuling et al., 2013; cheng et al., 2015; trnka et al., 2015a; van der linden et al., 2019; x. li et al., 2020). evidence from observed or observations derived trends in soil moisture and precipitation minus et, are combined with evidence from spei and pdsi pm studies to derive regional assessments of changes in agricultural and ecological droughts (section 11.9). this assessment is summarized in section 11.6.2.6. there is evidence based on streamflow records of increased hydrological droughts in east asia (d. zhang et al., 2018) and southern africa (gudmundsson et al., 2019). in areas of western and central europe and northern europe, there is no evidence of changes in the severity of hydrological droughts since 1950 based on flow reconstructions (caillouet et al., 2017; barker et al., 2019) and observations (vicente serrano et al., 2019). in the mediterranean region, there is high confidence in hydrological drought intensification (section 11.9; giuntoli et al., 2013; lorenzo lacruz et al., 2013; gudmundsson et al., 2019). in south eastern south america there is a decrease in the severity of hydrological droughts (rivera and penalba, 2018). in north america, depending on the methods, datasets and study periods, there are differences between studies that suggest an increase (shukla et al., 2015; udall and overpeck, 2017) versus a decrease in hydrological drought frequency (mo and lettenmaier, 2018), but in general there is strong spatial variability (poshtiri and pal, 2016). streamflow observation reference networks of near natural catchments have also been used to isolate the effect of climate trends on hydrological drought trends in a few regions, but these show limited trends in northern europe and western and central europe (stahl et al., 2010; bard et al., 2015; harrigan et al., 2018), north america (dudley et al., 2020) and most of australia, with the exception of eastern and southern australia (x.s. zhang et al., 2016). given the low availability of observations, there are few studies analysing trends of drought severity in the groundwater. nevertheless, some studies suggest a noticeable response of groundwater droughts to climate variability (lorenzo lacruz et al., 2017) and increased drought frequency and severity associated with warming, probably as a consequence of enhanced et induced by higher aed (maxwell and condon, 2016). this is supported by studies in northern europe (bloomfield et al., 2019) and north america (condon et al., 2020). globally, trends in spei pm and pdsi pm suggest slightly higher increases of drought frequency and severity in regions affected by drying over the last decades in comparison to the spi (dai and zhao, 2017; spinoni et al., 2019; song et al., 2020), mainly in regions of western and southern africa, the mediterranean and east asia (figure 11.17), which is consistent with observed soil moisture trends (section 11.6.2.3). these indices suggest that aed has contributed to increase the severity of agricultural and ecological droughts compared to meteorological droughts (garcía herrera et al., 2019; williams et al., 2020), reduce soil moisture during the dry season (padrón et al., 2020), increase plant water stress (allen et al., 2015; grossiord et al., 2020; solander et al., 2020) and trigger more severe forest fires (abatzoglou and williams, 2016; turco et al., 2019; nolan et al., 2020). a number of regional studies based on these drought indices have also shown stronger drying trends in comparison to trends in precipitation based indices in the following ar6 regions (see also section 11.9): nsa (r. fu et al., 2013; marengo and espinoza, 2016), sca (hidalgo et al., 2017), wca (tabari and aghajanloo, 2013; sharafati et al., 2020), sas (niranjan kumar et al., 2013), neaf (zeleke et al., 2017), wsaf (edossa et al., 2016), nwn and nen (bonsal et al., 2013), eas (yu et al., 2014; chen and sun, 2015b; l. li et al., 2020; liang et al., 2020; z. wu et al., 2020) and med (kelley et al., 2015; stagge et al., 2017; gonzález hidalgo et al., 2018; mathbout et al., 2018a). few ar6 regions show observed increases in meteorological drought (section 11.9), mostly in africa and south america (nes: high confidence; waf, caf, esaf, sam, sws, ssa, sas: medium confidence); a few others show a decrease (wsb, esb, nau, cau, neu, cna: medium confidence). there are stronger signals indicating observed increases in agricultural and ecological drought (section 11.9), which highlights the role of increased et, driven by increased aed, for these trends (sections 11.6.2.3 and11.6.2.5). past increases in agricultural and ecological droughts are found on all continents and several regions (waf, caf, wsaf, esaf, wca, eca, eas, sau, med, wce, nes: medium confidence), while decreases are found only in one ar6 region (nau: medium confidence). the more limited availability of datasets makes it more difficult to assess historical trends in hydrological drought at regional scale (section 11.9). increasing (med: high confidence; waf, eas, sau: medium confidence) and decreasing (neu, ses: medium confidence) trends in hydrological droughts have only been observed in a few regions. in summary, there is high confidence that aed has increased on average on continents, contributing to increased et and resulting water stress during periods with precipitation deficits, in particular during dry seasons. there is medium confidence in increases in precipitation deficits in a few regions of africa and south america. based on multiple evidence, there is medium confidence that agricultural and ecological droughts have increased in several regions on all continents (waf, caf, wsaf, esaf, wca, eca, eas, sau, med, wce, nes: medium confidence), while there is only medium confidence in decreases in one ar6 region (nau). more severe hydrological droughts are found in fewer regions (med: high confidence; waf, eas, sau: medium confidence). esms generally show limited performance and large spread in identifying precipitation deficits and associated long term trends in comparison with observations (nasrollahi et al., 2015). meteorological drought trends in the cmip5 ensemble showed substantial disagreements compared with observations (orlowsky and seneviratne, 2013; knutson and zeng, 2018) including a tendency to overestimate drying, in particular in mid  to high latitudes (knutson and zeng, 2018). the cmip6 models display a better performance in reproducing long term precipitation trends or seasonal dynamics in some studies in southern south america (rivera and arnould, 2020), east asia (xin et al., 2020), southern asia (gusain et al., 2020), and south western europe (peña angulo et al., 2020b), but there is still too limited evidence to allow for an assessment of possible differences in performance between cmip5 and cmip6. furthermore, esms are generally found to underestimate the severity of precipitation deficits and the dry day frequencies in comparison to observations (fantini et al., 2018; ukkola et al., 2018). this is probably related to shortcomings in the simulation of persistent weather events in the mid latitudes (section 10.3.3.3). esms also show a tendency to underestimate precipitation based drought persistence at monthly to decadal time scales (ault et al., 2014; moon et al., 2018). the overall inter model spread in the projected frequency of precipitation deficits is also substantial (touma et al., 2015; zhao et al., 2016; engström and keellings, 2018). moreover, there are spatial differences in the spread, which is higher in the regions where enhanced drought conditions are projected and under high emissions scenarios (orlowsky and seneviratne, 2013). nonetheless, some event attribution studies have concluded that droughts at regional scales can be adequately simulated by some climate models (schaller et al., 2016; otto et al., 2018c). there is onlylimited evidence on the evaluation of aed in state of the art esms, which is performed on externally computed aed, based on model output (scheff and frierson, 2015; liu and sun, 2016, 2017). an evaluation of average aed in 17 cmip5 esms for 1981 1999 based on potential evaporation show that the models’ spatial patterns resemble the observations, but the magnitude of potential evaporation displays strong divergence among models globally and regionally (scheff and frierson, 2015). the evaluation of aed in 12 cmip5 esms with pan evaporation observations in east asia for 1961 2000 (liu and sun, 2016, 2017) show that the esms capture seasonal cycles well, but that regional aed averages are underestimated due to biases in the meteorological variables controlling the aerodynamic and radiative components of aed. the cmip5 esms also show a strong underestimation of atmospheric drying trends compared to reanalysis data (douville and plazzotta, 2017). the performance of climate models for representing soil moisture deficits shows more uncertainty than for precipitation deficits since, in addition to the uncertainties related to cloud and precipitation processes, there is uncertainty related to the representation of complex soil hydrological and boundary layer processes (van den hurk et al., 2011; lu et al., 2019; quintana seguí et al., 2020). another limitation is the lack of observations, particularly for soil moisture, in most regions (section 11.6.2.3) and the paucity of land surface property data to parametrize land surface models, in particular soil types, soil properties and depth (xia et al., 2015). the spatial resolution of models is an additional limitation since the representation of some land atmosphere feedbacks and topographic effects requires detailed resolution (nicolai shaw et al., 2015; van der linden et al., 2019). in addition to climate models, land surface and hydrological models are also used to derive historical and projected trends in soil moisture and related land water variables (albergel et al., 2013; cheng et al., 2015; gu et al., 2019b; padrón et al., 2020; markonis et al., 2021; pokhrel et al., 2021). overall, there are contrasting results on the performance of land surface models and climate models in representing soil moisture. some studies suggest that soil moisture anomalies are well captured by land surface models driven with observation based forcing (dirmeyer et al., 2006; albergel et al., 2013; xia et al., 2014; balsamo et al., 2015; reichle et al., 2017; spennemann et al., 2020), but other studies report limited agreement in the representation of interannual soil moisture variability (stillman et al., 2016; yuan and quiring, 2017; ford and quiring, 2019) and noticeable seasonal differences in model skill in some regions (xia et al., 2014, 2015). models with good skill can nonetheless display biases in absolute soil moisture (xia et al., 2014; gu et al., 2019a), but these are not necessarily of relevance for the simulation of surface water fluxes and drought anomalies (koster et al., 2009). there is also substantial inter model spread (albergel et al., 2013), particularly for the root zone soil moisture (berg et al., 2017a). regarding the performance of regional and global climate models, an evaluation of an ensemble of rcm simulations for europe (stegehuis et al., 2013) shows that these models display overly strong drying in early summer, resulting in an excessive decrease of latent heat fluxes, with potential implications for more severe droughts in dry environments (teuling, 2018; van der linden et al., 2019). compared with a range of observational et estimates, cmip5 models show an overestimation of et on annual scale, but an et underestimation in boreal summer in many northern hemisphere mid latitude regions, also suggesting a tendency towards excessive soil drying (mueller and seneviratne, 2014), consistent with identified biases in soil moisture temperature coupling (donat et al., 2018; vogel et al., 2018; selten et al., 2020). land surface models used in esms display a bias in their representation of the sensitivity of interannual land carbon uptake to soil moisture conditions, which appears related to a limited range of soil moisture variations compared to observations (humphrey et al., 2018). for future projections, the spread of soil moisture outputs among different esms is more important than internal variability and scenario uncertainty, and the bias is strongly related to the sign of the projected change (ukkola et al., 2018; lu et al., 2019; selten et al., 2020). the cmip5 esms that project more drying and warming in mid latitude regions show a substantial bias in soil moisture temperature coupling (donat et al., 2018; vogel et al., 2018). although cmip6 and cmip5 simulations for soil moisture changes are similar overall, some differences are found in projections in a few regions (section 11.9; cook et al., 2020). there is still limited evidence to assess whether there are substantial differences in model performance in the two ensembles, but improvements in modelling aspects relevant for soil moisture have been reported for precipitation (section 11.6.3.2), and a better performance has been found in cmip6 for the representation of long term trends in soil moisture in continental usa (yuan et al., 2021). despite the mentioned model limitations, the representation of soil moisture processes in esms uses physical and biological understanding of the underlying processes, which can well represent the temporal anomalies associated with temporal variability and trends in climate. in summary, there is medium confidence in the representation of soil moisture deficits in esms and related land surface and hydrological models. streamflow and groundwater are not directly simulated by esms, which only simulate runoff, but they are generally represented in hydrological models (prudhomme et al., 2014; giuntoli et al., 2015), which are typically driven in a stand alone manner by observed or simulated climate forcing. the simulation of hydrological deficits is much more problematic than the simulation of mean streamflow or peak flows (fundel et al., 2013; stoelzle et al., 2013; velázquez et al., 2013; staudinger et al., 2015), since models tend to be too responsive to the climate forcing and do not satisfactorily capture low flows (tallaksen and stahl, 2014). simulations of hydrological drought metrics show uncertainties related to the contribution of both gcms and hydrological models (bosshard et al., 2013; giuntoli et al., 2015; samaniego et al., 2017; vetter et al., 2017), but hydrological models forced by the same climate input data also show a large spread (van huijgevoort et al., 2013; ukkola et al., 2018). at the catchment scale, the hydrological model uncertainty is higher than both gcm and downscaling uncertainty (vidal et al., 2016), and the hydrological models show issues in representing drought propagation throughout the hydrological cycle (barella ortiz and quintana seguí, 2019). a study on the evaluation of streamflow droughts in seven global (hydrological and land surface) models compared with observations in near natural catchments of europe showed a substantial spread among models, an overestimation of the number of drought events, and an underestimation of drought duration and drought affected area (tallaksen and stahl, 2014). a number of studies have analysed the ability of models to capture drought severity and trends based on climatic drought indices. given the limitations of esms in reproducing the dynamic of precipitation deficits and aed (11.6.3.1, 11.6.3.2), atmospheric based drought indices derived from esm data for these two variables are also affected by uncertainties and biases. a comparison of historical trends in pdsi pm for 1950 2014 derived from cmip3 and cmip5, with respective estimates derived from observations (dai and zhao, 2017) show a similar behaviour at global scale (long term decrease), but low spatial agreement in the trends except in a few regions (mediterranean, south asia, north western usa). in future projections, there is an important spread in pdsi pm and spei pm among different models (cook et al., 2014a). the performance of esms used to assessed changes in variables related to meteorological droughts, agricultural and ecological droughts, and hydrological droughts, shows the presence of biases and uncertainties compared to observations, but there is medium confidence in their overall performance for assessing drought projections given process understanding. given the substantial inter model spread documented for all related variables, the consideration of multi model projections increases the confidence of model based assessments, with onlylow confidence in assessments based on single models. in summary, the evaluation of esms, land surface and hydrological models for the simulation of droughts is complex, due to the regional scale of drought trends, their overall low signal to noise ratio, and the lack of observations in several regions, in particular for soil moisture and streamflow. there is medium confidence in the ability of esms to simulate trends and anomalies in precipitation deficits and aed, and also medium confidence in the ability of esms and hydrological models to simulate trends and anomalies in soil moisture and streamflow deficits, on global and regional scales. there are only two ar6 regions where there is at least medium confidence that human induced climate change has contributed to changes in meteorological droughts (section 11.9). in south western south america, there is medium confidence that human induced climate change has contributed to an increase in meteorological droughts (boisier et al., 2016; garreaud et al., 2020), while in northern europe, there is medium confidence that it has contributed to a decrease in meteorological droughts (section 11.9; gudmundsson and seneviratne, 2016). in other ar6 regions, there is inconclusive evidence in the attribution of long term trends, but a human contribution to single meteorological events or sub regional trends has been identified in some instances (section 11.9; see also below). in the mediterranean region, some studies have identified a precipitation decline or increase in meteorological drought probability for time frames since the early or mid 20th century, and a possible human contribution to these trends (hoerling et al., 2012; gudmundsson and seneviratne, 2016; knutson and zeng, 2018), also on sub regional scale in syria from 1930 to 2010 (kelley et al., 2015). on the contrary, other studies have not identified precipitation and meteorological drought trends in the region for the long term (camuffo et al., 2013; paulo et al., 2016; vicente serrano et al., 2021) and also from the mid 20th century (norrant and douguédroit, 2006; stagge et al., 2017). there is evidence of substantial internal variability in long term precipitation trends in the region (section 11.6.2.1), which limits the attribution of human influence on variability and trends of meteorological droughts from observational records (kelley et al., 2012; peña angulo et al., 2020b). in addition, there are important sub regional trends showing mixed signals (section 11.9; medecc, 2020). the evidence thus leads to an assessment of low confidence in the attribution of observed short term changes in meteorological droughts in the region (section 11.9). in north america, the human influence on precipitation deficits is complex (wehner et al., 2017), with low confidence in the attribution of long term changes in meteorological drought in ar6 regions (section 11.9; lehner et al., 2018). in africa there is low confidence that human influence has contributed to the observed long term meteorological drought increase in western africa (sections 11.9 and 10.6.2). there is low confidence in the attribution of the observed increasing trends in meteorological drought in east southern africa, but evidence that human induced climate change has affected recent meteorological drought events in the region (section 11.9). attribution studies for recent meteorological drought events are available for various regions. in western and central europe, a multi method and multi model attribution study on the 2015 central european drought did not find conclusive evidence for whether human induced climate change was a driver of the rainfall deficit, as the results depended on model and method used (hauser et al., 2017). in the mediterranean region, a human contribution was found in the case of the 2014 meteorological drought in the southern levant based on a single model study (bergaoui et al., 2015). in africa, there is some evidence of a contribution of human emissions to single meteorological drought events, such as the 2015 2017 southern african drought (funk et al., 2018a; yuan et al., 2018a; pascale et al., 2020), and the three year (2015 2017) drought in the western cape town region of south africa (otto et al., 2018c). an attributable signal was not found in droughts that occurred in different years with different spatial extents in the last decade in north and south eastern africa (marthews et al., 2015; uhe et al., 2017; otto et al., 2018a; philip et al., 2018b; kew et al., 2021). however, an attributable increase in 2011 long rain failure was identified (lott et al., 2013). further studies have attributed some african meteorological drought events to large scale modes of variability, such as the strong 2015 el niño (box 11.4; philip et al., 2018b) and increased ssts overall (funk et al., 2015a, 2018b). natural variability was dominant in the california droughts of 2011 2012 to 2013 2014 (seager et al., 2015a). in asia, no climate change signal was found in the record dry spell over singapore and malaysia in 2014 (mcbride et al., 2015) or the drought in central south west asia in 2013 2014 (barlow and hoell, 2015). nevertheless, the south east asia drought of 2015 has been attributed to anthropogenic warming effects (shiogama et al., 2020). recent droughts occurring in south america, specifically in the southern amazon region in 2010 (shiogama et al., 2013) and in north east south america in 2014 (otto et al., 2015b) and 2016 (martins et al., 2018) were not attributed to anthropogenic climate change. nevertheless, the central chile drought between 2010 and 2018 has been suggested to be partly associated to global warming (boisier et al., 2016; garreaud et al., 2020). the 2013 new zealand meteorological drought was attributed to human influence by harrington et al. (2014, 2016) based on fully coupled cmip5 models, but no corresponding change in the dry end of simulated precipitation from a stand alone atmospheric model was found by angélil et al. (2017). event attribution studies also highlight a complex interplay of anthropogenic and non anthropogenic climatological factors for some events. for example, anthropogenic warming contributed to the 2014 drought in north eastern africa by increasing east african and west pacific temperatures, and increasing the gradient between standardized western and central pacific ssts, causing reduced rainfall (funk et al., 2015a). as different methodologies, models and data sources have been used for the attribution of precipitation deficits, angélil et al. (2017) re examined several events using a single analytical approach and climate model and observational datasets. their results showed a disagreement in the original anthropogenic attribution in a number of precipitation deficit events, which increased uncertainty in the attribution of meteorological droughts events. there is a growing number of studies on the detection and attribution of long term changes in soil moisture deficits. mueller and zhang (2016) concluded that anthropogenic forcing contributed significantly to soil moisture drying in the warm season in the northern hemisphere from 1951 to 2005 and also led to an increase in the land surface area affected by soil moisture deficits, which can be reproduced by cmip5 models only if anthropogenic forcings are involved. gu et al. (2019b) similarly identified a global scale soil moisture drying tendency in land surface model data from the global land data assimilation system 2 over the time frame 1948 2005, which was attributed to anthropogenic forcing based on evaluation with cmip5 models using optimal fingerprinting. padrón et al. (2019) analysed long term reconstructed and cmip5 simulated dry season water availability, defined as precipitation minus et (i.e., equivalent to soil moisture and runoff availability), also related to agricultural and ecological droughts. they found an intensification of dry season precipitation minus evapotranspiration deficits over a predominant fraction of the land area in the last three decades, which can only be explained by anthropogenic forcing and is mostly related to increases in et. similarly, williams et al. (2020) concluded that human induced climate change contributed to the strong soil moisture deficits recorded in the last two decades in western north america through vpd increases associated with higher air temperatures and lower air humidity. there are few studies analysing the attribution of particular episodes of soil moisture deficits to anthropogenic influence. nevertheless, the available modelling studies coincide in supporting an anthropogenic attribution associated with more extreme temperatures, exacerbating aed and increasing et, and thus depleting soil moisture, as observed in southern europe in 2017 (garcía herrera et al., 2019) and in australia in 2018 (lewis et al., 2020) and 2019 (van oldenborgh et al., 2021), the latter event having strong implications in the propagation of widespread megafires (nolan et al., 2020). it is often difficult to separate the role of climate trends from changes in land use, water management and demand for changes in hydrological deficits, especially on a regional scale. however, a global study based on a recent multi model experiment with global hydrological models and covering several ar6 regions suggests a dominant role of anthropogenic radiative forcing for trends in low, mean and high flows, while simulated effects of water and land management do not suffice to reproduce the observed spatial pattern of trends (gudmundsson et al., 2021). regional studies also suggest that climate trends have been dominant compared to land use and human water management for explaining trends in hydrological droughts in some regions, for instance in ethiopia (fenta et al., 2017), china (xie et al., 2015), and north america for the missouri and colorado basins, as well as in california (shukla et al., 2015; udall and overpeck, 2017; ficklin et al., 2018; k. xiao et al., 2018; glas et al., 2019; martin et al., 2020; milly and dunne, 2020). in other regions, the influence of human water uses can be more important to explain hydrological drought trends (y. liu et al., 2016; mohammed and scholz, 2016). there is medium confidence that human induced climate change has contributed to an increase of hydrological droughts in the mediterranean (giuntoli et al., 2013; vicente serrano et al., 2014; gudmundsson et al., 2017), but also medium confidence that changes in land use and terrestrial water management contributed to these trends (section 11.9; teuling et al., 2019; vicente serrano et al., 2019). a global study with a single hydrological model estimated that human water consumption has intensified the magnitude of hydrological droughts by 20 40% over the last 50 years, and that the human water use contribution to hydrological droughts was more important than climatic factors in the mediterranean, and central usa, as well as in parts of brazil (wada et al., 2013). however, gudmundsson et al. (2021) concluded that the contribution of human water use is smaller than that of anthropogenic climate change to explain spatial differences in the trends of low flows based on a multi model analysis. there is still limited evidence and thus low confidence in assessing these trends at the scale of single regions, with few exceptions (section 11.9). different studies using atmospheric based drought indices suggest an attributable anthropogenic signal, characterized by the increased frequency and severity of droughts (cook et al., 2018), associated to increased aed (section 11.6.4.2). the majority of studies are based on the pdsi pm. williams et al. (2015) and griffin and anchukaitis (2014) concluded that increased aed has had an increased contribution to drought severity over the last decades, and played a dominant role in the intensification of the 2012 2014 drought in california. the same temporal pattern and physical mechanism was stressed by z. li et al. (2017) in central asia. marvel et al. (2019) compared tree ring based reconstructions of the pdsi pm over the past millennium with pdsi pm estimates based on output from cmip5 models. the comparisons suggested a contribution of greenhouse gas forcing to the changes since the beginning of the 20th century, although characterized with temporal differences that could be driven by temporal variations in the aerosol forcing. this was in agreement with the dominant external forcings of aridification at global scale between 1950 and 2014 (bonfils et al., 2020). in the mediterranean region, there is medium confidence of drying attributable to antropogenic forcing as a consequence of the strong aed increase (gocic and trajkovic, 2014; azorin molina et al., 2015; liuzzo et al., 2016; maček et al., 2018), which has enhanced the severity of drought events (vicente serrano et al., 2014; stagge et al., 2017; gonzález hidalgo et al., 2018). in particular, this effect was identified to be the main driver of the intensification of the 2017 drought that affected south western europe, and was attributed to the human forcing (garcía herrera et al., 2019). nangombe et al. (2020) and l. zhang et al. (2020) concluded from differences between precipitation and aed that anthropogenic forcing contributed to the 2018 droughts that affected southern africa and south eastern china, respectively, principally as consequence of the high aed that characterized these two events. the regional evidence on attribution for single ar6 regions generally shows low confidence for a human contribution to observed trends in meteorological droughts at regional scale, with few exceptions (section 11.9). there is medium confidence that human influence has contributed to increases in agricultural and ecological droughts in the dry season in some regions and has led to an overall increase in the affected land area. at regional scales, there is medium confidence in a contribution of human induced climate change to increases in agricultural and ecological droughts in the mediterranean and western north america (section 11.9). there is medium confidence that human induced climate change has contributed to an increase in hydrological droughts in the mediterranean region, but also medium confidence in contributions from other human influences, including water management and land use (section 11.9). several meteorological and agricultural and ecological drought events have been attributed to human induced climate change, even in regions where no long term changes are detected (medium confidence). however, a lack of attribution to human induced climate change has also been shown for some events (medium confidence). in summary, human influence has contributed to increases in agricultural and ecological droughts in the dry season in some regions due to increases in evapotranspiration (medium confidence). the increases in evapotranspiration have been driven by increases in atmospheric evaporative demand induced by increased temperature, decreased relative humidity and increased net radiation over affected land areas (high confidence). there is low confidence that human influence has affected trends in meteorological droughts in most regions, butmedium confidence that they have contributed to the severity of some single events. there is medium confidence that human induced climate change has contributed to increasing trends in the probability or intensity of recent agricultural and ecological droughts, leading to an increase of the affected land area. human induced climate change has contributed to global scale change in low flow, but human water management and land use changes are also important drivers (medium confidence). the srex (chapter 3) asssessed with medium confidence projections of increased drought severity in some regions, including southern europe and the mediterranean, central europe, central america and mexico, north east brazil, and southern africa, and low confidence elsewhere given large inter model spread. the ar5 (chapters 11 and 12) also assessed large uncertainties in drought projections at the regional and global scales. the assessment of drought mechanisms under future climate change scenarios depends on the model used (section 11.6.3). moreover, uncertainties in drought projections are affected by the consideration of plant physiological responses to increasing atmospheric co2 (cross chapter box 5.1; milly and dunne, 2016; greve et al., 2019; mankin et al., 2019; yang et al., 2020), the role of soil moisture atmosphere feedbacks for changes in water balance and aridity (berg et al., 2016; zhou et al., 2021), and statistical issues related to considered drought time scales (vicente serrano et al., 2020c). nonetheless, the extensive literature available since ar5 allows a substantially more robust assessment of projected changes in droughts, also subdivided in different drought types (meteorological drought, agricultural and ecological drought, and hydrological drought). this includes assessments of projected changes in droughts, including changes at 1.5°c, 2°c and 4°c of global warming, for all ar6 regions (section 11.9). projected changes show increases in drought frequency and intensity in several regions as function of global warming (high confidence). there are also substantial increases in drought hazard probability from 1.5°c to 2°c global warming and for further additional increments of global warming (high confidence) (figures 11.18 and 11.19). these findings are based on both cmip5 and cmip6 analyses (section 11.9; wartenburger et al., 2017; greve et al., 2018; l. xu et al., 2019), and strengthen the conclusions of sr1.5 chapter 3. studies based on cmip5, cmip6 and coordinated regional climate downscaling experiment (cordex) projections show a consistent signal in the sign and spatial pattern of projections of precipitation deficits. global studies based on these multi model ensemble projections (orlowsky and seneviratne, 2013; martin, 2018; spinoni et al., 2020; ukkola et al., 2020; coppola et al., 2021b) show particularly strong signal to noise ratios for increasing meteorological droughts in the following ar6 regions: med, esaf, wsaf, sau, cau, nca, sca, nsa and nes (section 11.9). there is also substantial evidence of changes in meteorological droughts at 1.5°c versus 2°c of global warming from global studies (wartenburger et al., 2017; l. xu et al., 2019). the patterns of projected changes in mean precipitation are consistent with the changes in the drought duration, but they are not consistent with the changes in drought intensity (ukkola et al., 2020). in general, cmip6 projections suggest a stronger increase of the probability of precipitation deficits than cmip5 projections (cook et al., 2020; ukkola et al., 2020). projections for the number of cdds in cmip6 (figure 11.19) for different levels of global warming relative to 1850 1900 show similar spatial patterns as projected precipitation deficits. the robustness of the patterns in projected precipitation deficits identified in the global studies is also consistent with results from regional studies (giorgi et al., 2014; marengo and espinoza, 2016; pinto et al., 2016; j. huang et al., 2018; maúre et al., 2018; nangombe et al., 2018; tabari and willems, 2018; abiodun et al., 2019; dosio et al., 2019). in africa, a strong increase in the length of dry spells (cdd) is projected for 4°c of global warming over most of the continent, with the exception of central and eastern africa (section 11.9; sillmann et al., 2013a; giorgi et al., 2014; han et al., 2019). in west africa, a strong reduction of precipitation is projected (sillmann et al., 2013a; diallo et al., 2016; akinsanola and zhou, 2019; han et al., 2019; todzo et al., 2020) at 4°c of global warming, and cdd would increase with stronger global warming levels (klutse et al., 2018). the regions most strongly affected are southern africa (esaf, wsaf) (nangombe et al., 2018; abiodun et al., 2019) and northern africa (part of the med region), with increases in meteorological droughts already at 1.5°c of global warming, and further increases with increasing global warming (section 11.9). cdd is projected to increase more in the southern mediterranean (northern africa) than in the northern part of the mediterranean region (lionello and scarascia, 2020). in asia, most ar6 regions showlow confidence in projected changes in meteorological droughts at 1.5°c and 2°c of global warming, with a few regions displaying a decrease in meteorological droughts at 4°c of global warming (rar, esb, rfe, eca; medium confidence), although there is a projected increase in meteorological droughts in south east asia at 4°c (medium confidence) (section 11.9). in south east asia, an increasing frequency of precipitation deficits is projected as a consequence of an increasing frequency of extreme el niño (cai et al., 2014b, 2015, 2018). in central america, projections suggest an increase in mid summer meteorological drought (imbach et al., 2018) and increased cdd (chou et al., 2014a; giorgi et al., 2014; nakaegawa et al., 2014). in the amazon, there is also a projected increase in dryness (marengo and espinoza, 2016), which is the combination of a projected increase in the frequency and geographic extent of meteorological drought in the eastern amazon, and an opposite trend in the west (duffy et al., 2015). in south western south america, there is a projected increase of cdd (chou et al., 2014a; giorgi et al., 2014) and in chile, drying is projected to prevail (boisier et al., 2018). in the south america monsoon region, an increase in cdd is projected (chou et al., 2014a; giorgi et al., 2014), but a decrease is projected in south eastern and southern south america (giorgi et al., 2014). in central america, mid summer meteorological drought is projected to intensify during 2071 2095 for the rcp8.5 scenario (corrales‐suastegui et al., 2020). an increase in the frequency, duration and intensity of meteorological droughts is projected in south west, south and east australia (kirono et al., 2020; shi et al., 2020). in canada and most of the usa, based on the spi, swain and hayhoe (2015) identified drier summer conditions in projections over most of the region, and there is a consistent signal toward an increase in duration and intensity of droughts in southern north america (pascale et al., 2016; escalante sandoval and nuñez garcia, 2017). in california, more precipitation variability is projected, characterized by increased frequency of consecutive drought and humid periods (swain et al., 2018). substantial increases in meteorological drought are projected in europe, in particular in the mediterranean region, already at 1.5°c of global warming (section 11.9). in southern europe, model projections display a consistent drying among models (russo et al., 2013; hertig and tramblay, 2017; guerreiro et al., 2018a; raymond et al., 2019). in western and central europe there is some spread in cmip5 projections, with some models projecting very strong drying, and others close to no trend (vogel et al., 2018), although cdd is projected to increase in cmip5 projections under the rcp 8.5 scenario (hari et al., 2020). the overall evidence suggests an increase in meteorological drought at 4°c in the wce region (medium confidence) (section 11.9). overall, based on global and regional studies, several hot spot regions are identified, displaying more frequent and severe meteorological droughts with increasing global warming, including several ar6 regions at 1.5°c (wsaf, esaf, sau, med, nes) and 2°c of global warming (wsaf, esaf, eau, sau, med, nca, sca, nsa, nes) (section 11.9). at 4°c of global warming, there is also confidence in increases in meteorological droughts in further regions (waf, wce, ena, car, nws, sam, sws, ssa; section 11.9), showing a geographical expansion of meteorological drought with increasing global warming. only few regions are projected to have less intense or frequent meteorological droughts (section 11.9). effects of aed on droughts in future projections is under debate. the cmip5 models project an increase in aed over the majority of the world with increasing global warming, mostly as a consequence of strong vpd increases (scheff and frierson, 2015; vicente serrano et al., 2020a). however, et is projected to increase less than aed in many regions due to plant physiological responses related to: i) co2 effects on plant photosynthesis; and ii) soil moisture control on et. several studies suggest that increasing atmospheric co2 could lead to reduced leaf stomatal conductance, which would increase water use efficiency and reduce plant water needs, thus limiting et (cross chapter box 5.1; roderick et al., 2015; milly and dunne, 2016; swann et al., 2016; greve et al., 2017; scheff et al., 2017; lemordant et al., 2018; swann, 2018). the implemention of a co2  dependent land resistance parameter has been suggested for the estimation of aed (yang et al., 2019). nevertheless, there are other relevant mechanisms, as soil moisture deficits and vpd also play an important role in the control of the leaf stomatal conductance (z. xu et al., 2016; menezes silva et al., 2019; grossiord et al., 2020), and a number of ecophysiological and anatomical processes affect the response of plant physiology under higher atmospheric co2 concentrations (cross chapter box 5.1; mankin et al., 2019; menezes silva et al., 2019). the benefits of the atmospheric co2 for plant stress and agricultural and ecological droughts would be minimal precisely during dry periods given stomatal closure in response to limited soil moisture (allen et al., 2015; z. xu et al., 2016). in addition, co2 effects on plant stomatal conductance could not entirely compensate for the increased demand associated with warming (liu and sun, 2017); in large tropical and subtropical regions (e.g., southern africa, the amazon, the mediterranean and southern north america), aed is projected to increase, even considering the possible co2 effects on land resistance (vicente serrano et al., 2020a). moreover, these co2 effects would not affect the direct evaporation from soil and water bodies, which is very relevant in the reservoirs of warm areas (friedrich et al., 2018). because of these uncertainties, there is low confidence whether increased co2  induced water use efficiency in vegetation will substantially reduce global plant transpiration and will diminish the frequency and severity of soil moisture and streamflow deficits associated with the radiative effect of higher co2 concentrations (cross chapter box 5.1). another mechanism reducing the et response to increased aed in projections is the control of soil moisture limitations on et, which leads to reduced stomatal conductance under water stress (berg and sheffield, 2018; stocker et al., 2018; zhou et al., 2021). this response may be further amplified through vpd induced decreases in stomatal conductance (anderegg et al., 2020). however, the decreased stomatal conductance in response to soil moisture limitation and enhanced co2 would further enhance aed (sherwood and fu, 2014; berg et al., 2016; teuling, 2018; miralles et al., 2019), whereby the overall effects on aed in esms are found to be of similar magnitude for soil moisture limitation and co2 physiological effects on stomatal conductance (berg et al., 2016). increased aed is thus both a driver and a feedback with respect to changes in et, complicating the interpretation of its role on drought changes with increasing co2 concentrations and global warming. areas with projected soil moisture decreases do not fully coincide with areas that have projected precipitation decreases, although there is substantial consistency in the respective patterns (dirmeyer et al., 2013; berg and sheffield, 2018). however, there are more regions affected by increased soil moisture deficits (figure 11.19) than precipitation deficits (figures 2a,b,c and cross chapter box 11.1) as a consequence of enhanced aed and the associated increased et, as highlighted by some studies (orlowsky and seneviratne, 2013; dai et al., 2018; section 8.2.2.1). moisture in the top soil layer is projected to decrease more than precipitation at all warming levels (lu et al., 2019), extending the regions affected by severe soil moisture deficits over most of south and central europe (lehner et al., 2017; ruosteenoja et al., 2018; samaniego et al., 2018; van der linden et al., 2019), southern north america (cook et al., 2019), south america (orlowsky and seneviratne, 2013), southern africa (lu et al., 2019), east africa (rowell et al., 2015), southern australia (kirono et al., 2020), india (mishra et al., 2014a) and east asia (figure 11.19; cheng et al., 2015). projected changes in total soil moisture display less widespread drying than those for surface soil moisture (berg et al., 2017a), but still more than for precipitation (cross chapter box 11.1, figures 2a,b,c). the severity of droughts based on surface soil moisture in future projections is stronger than projections based on precipitation and runoff (dai et al., 2018; vicente serrano et al., 2020c). nevertheless, in many parts of the world where soil moisture is projected to decrease, the signal to noise ratio among models is low; only the projections in the mediterranean, europe, the south western usa, and southern africa show a high signal to noise ratio in soil moisture projections (figure 11.19; lu et al., 2019). increases in soil moisture deficits are found to be statistically signicant at regional scale in the mediterranean region, southern africa and western south america for changes as small as 0.5°c in global warming, based on differences between +1.5°c and +2°c of global warming (wartenburger et al., 2017). several other regions are affected when considering changes in droughts for higher changes in global warming (section 11.9 and figure 11.19). seasonal projections of drought frequency for boreal winter (december january february) and summer (june july august), from cmip6 multi model ensemble for 1.5°c, 2°c and 4°c global warming levels, show contrasting trends (figure 11.19). in the boreal winter in the northern hemisphere, the areas affected by drying show high agreement with those characterized by an increase in meteorological drought projections (figures 8.14 and 12.4). on the contrary, in the boreal summer, the drought frequency increases worldwide in comparison to meteorological drought projections, with large areas of the northern hemisphere displaying a high signal to noise ratio (low spead between models). this stresses the dominant influence of et (as a result of increased aed) in intensifying agricultural and ecological droughts in the warm season in many locations, including mid  to high latitudes. increased soil moisture limitation and associated changes in droughts are projected to lead to increased vegetation stress affecting the global land carbon sink in esm projections (green et al., 2019), with implications for projected global warming (cross chapter box 5). there is high confidence that the global land sink will become less efficient due to soil moisture limitations and associated agricultural and ecological drought conditions in some regions in higher emissions scenarios, specially under global warming levels above 4°c; however, there is low confidence in how these water cycle feedbacks will play out in lower emissions scenarios (at 2°c global warming or lower; cross chapter box 5.1). some studies support wetting tendencies as a response to a warmer climate when considering globally averaged changes in runoff over land (roderick et al., 2015; greve et al., 2017; y. yang et al., 2018), and streamflow projections respond to enhanced co2 concentrations in cmip5 models (yang et al., 2019). nevertheless, when focusing regionally on low runoff periods, model projections also show an increase of hydrological droughts in large world regions (wanders and van lanen, 2015; dai et al., 2018; vicente serrano et al., 2020c). in general, the frequency of hydrological deficits is projected to increase over most of the continents, although with regionally and seasonally differentiated effects (section 11.9), with medium confidence of increase in the following ar6 regions: wce, med, sau, wca, wna, sca, nsa, sam, sws, ssa, wsaf, esaf and mdg (section 11.9; forzieri et al., 2014; prudhomme et al., 2014; giuntoli et al., 2015; wanders and van lanen, 2015; roudier et al., 2016; marx et al., 2018; cook et al., 2019; zhao et al., 2020). however, there are large uncertainties related to the hydrological/impact model used (prudhomme et al., 2014; schewe et al., 2014; gosling et al., 2017), limited signal to noise ratio (due to model spread) in several regions (giuntoli et al., 2015), and also uncertainties in the projection of future human activities, including water demand and land cover changes, which may represent more than 50% of the projected changes in hydrological droughts in some regions (wanders and wada, 2015). regions dependent on mountainous snowpack as a temporary reservoir may be affected by severe hydrological droughts in a warmer world. in the southern european alps, both winter and summer low flows are projected to be more severe, with a 25% decrease in the 2050s (vidal et al., 2016). in western usa, a 22% reduction in winter snow water equivalent is projected at around 2°c of global warming, with a further decrease of a 70% reduction at 4°c global warming (rhoades et al., 2018). this decline would cause less predictable hydrological droughts in snowmelt dominated areas of north america (livneh and badger, 2020). the exact magnitude of the influence of higher temperatures on snow related droughts is, however, difficult to estimate (mote et al., 2016), since the streamflow changes could affect the timing of peak streamflows but not necessarily their magnitude. in addition, projected changes in hydrological droughts downstream of declining glaciers can be very complex to assess (chapter 9, see also srocc). studies show a stronger drying in projections based on atmospheric based drought indices compared to esm projections of changes in soil moisture (berg and sheffield, 2018) and runoff (yang et al., 2019). it has been suggested that this difference is due to physiological co2 effects (section 11.6.5.2; roderick et al., 2015; milly and dunne, 2016; swann et al., 2016; lemordant et al., 2018; scheff, 2018; swann, 2018; greve et al., 2019; yang et al., 2020). nonetheless, there is evidence that differences in projections between atmospheric based drought indices and water balance metrics from esms are not alone due to co2  plant effects (berg et al., 2016; scheff et al., 2021). differences can also be related to the fact that aed is an upper bound for et in dry regions and conditions (section 11.6.1.2) and that soil moisture stress limits increases in et in projections (section 11.6.5.2; berg et al., 2016; zhou et al., 2021). in general, atmospheric based indices show more drying than total column soil moisture (berg and sheffield, 2018; cook et al., 2020; scheff et al., 2021), but are more consistent with projected increases in surface soil moisture deficits (dirmeyer et al., 2013; dai et al., 2018; lu et al., 2019; cook et al., 2020; vicente serrano et al., 2020c). atmospheric based drought indices are not metrics of soil moisture or runoff (section 11.6.1.5) so their projections may not necessarily reflect the same trend of online simulated soil moisture and runoff. independently of effects on the land water balance, atmospheric based drought indices will reflect the potential vegetation stress resulting from deficits between available water and enhanced aed, even in conditions with no or low et. under dry conditions, the enhanced aed associated with human forcing would increase plant water stress (brodribb et al., 2020), with effects on widespread forest dieback and mortality (anderegg et al., 2013; williams et al., 2013; allen et al., 2015; mcdowell and allen, 2015; mcdowell et al., 2016, 2020), and stronger risk of megafires (flannigan et al., 2016; podschwit et al., 2018; clarke and evans, 2019; varela et al., 2019). for these reasons, there is high confidence that the future projections of enhanced drought severity showed by the pdsi pm and the spei pm are representative of more frequent and severe plant stress episodes and more severe agricultural and ecological drought impacts in some regions. global tendencies towards more severe and frequent agricultural and ecological drought conditions are identified in future projections when focusing on atmospheric based drought indices such as the pdsi pm or the spei pm. they expand the spatial extent of drought conditions compared to meteorological drought to most of north america, europe, africa, central and east asia and southern australia (cook et al., 2014a; chen and sun, 2017a, b; gao et al., 2017b; lehner et al., 2017; zhao and dai, 2017; dai et al., 2018; naumann et al., 2018; potopová et al., 2018; gu et al., 2020; vicente serrano et al., 2020c; dai, 2021). projections in pdsi pm and spei pm are used to complement total soil moisture projections in assessing projected changes in agricultural and ecological drought (section 11.9). the tables in section 11.9 provide assessed projected changes in metorological drought, agricultural and ecological drought, and hydrological droughts. the assessment shows that several regions will be affected by more severe agricultural and ecological droughts even if global warming is stabilized at 2°c, including med, wsaf, sam and ssa (high confidence), and esaf, mdg, eau, sau, sca, car, nsa, nes, sws, wce, nca, wna and cna (medium confidence). some regions are also projected to be affected by more severe agricultural and ecological droughts at 1.5°c (med, wsaf, esaf, sau, nsa, sam, ssa, can; medium confidence) at 4°c of global warming, even more regions would be affected by agricultural and ecological droughts (wce, med, cau, eau, sau, wca, eas, sca, car, nsa, nes, sam, sws, ssa, nca, cna, ena, wna, wsaf, esaf and mdg). neaf, sas are also projected to experience less agricultural and ecological drought with global warming (medium confidence). projected changes in meteorological droughts are, overall, less extended but also affect several ar6 regions, at 1.5°c and 2°c (med, eau, sau, sca, nsa, nca, wsaf, esaf, mdg) and 4°c of global warming (wce, med, eau, sau, sea, sca, car, nws, nsa, nes, sam, sws, ssa, nca, ena, waf, wsaf, esaf, mdg). several regions are also projected to be affected by more hydrological droughts at 1.5°c and 2°c (wce, med, wna, wsaf, esaf) and 4°c of global warming (neu, wce, eeu, med, sau, wca, sca, nsa, sam, sws, ssa, wna, wsaf, esaf, mdg). to illustrate the changes in both intensity and frequency of drought in the regions where strongest changes are projected, figure 11.18 displays changes in the intensity and frequency of soil moisture drought under different global warming levels (1.5°c, 2°c, 4°c) relative to the 1851 1900 baseline based on cmip6 simulations under different ssp forcing scenarios averaged over “drying regions”, i.e. ar6 regions for which there is at least medium confidence in increase in agricultural and ecological drought at 2°c of global warming. the 90% uncertainty ranges for the projected changes in both intensity and frequency are above zero, indicating significant increase in both intensity and frequency of drought in these regions as whole. in summary, more regions are affected by increases in agricultural and ecological droughts with increasing global warming (high confidence). new evidence strengthens the sr1.5 conclusion that even relatively small incremental increases in global warming (+0.5°c) cause a worsening of droughts in some regions (high confidence). some regions are projected to be affected by more severe agricultural and ecological droughts at 1.5°c of global warming (med, wsaf, esaf, sau, nsa, sam, ssa, can; medium confidence). a larger number of regions are projected to be affected by more severe agricultural and ecological droughts at 2°c of global warming, including med, wsaf, sam and ssa (high confidence), and esaf, mdg, eau, sau, sca, car, nsa, nes, sws, wce, nca, wna and cna (medium confidence). at 4°c of global warming, even more regions would be affected by agricultural and ecological droughts (wce, med, cau, eau, sau, wca, eas, sca, car, nsa, nes, sam, sws, ssa, nca, cna, ena, wna, wsaf, esaf and mdg). some regions are also projected to experience less agricultural and ecological drought with global warming (medium confidence;neaf, sas). there is high confidence that the projected increases in agricultural and ecological droughts are strongly affected by aed increases in a warming climate, although et increases are projected to be smaller than those in aed due to soil moisture limitations and co2 effects on leaf stomatal conductance. enhanced atmospheric co2 concentrations lead to enhanced water use efficiency in plants (medium confidence), but there is low confidence that it can alleviate agricultural and ecological droughts, or hydrological droughts, at higher global warming levels characterized by limited soil moisture and enhanced aed. projected changes in meteorological droughts are overall less extended than for agricultural and ecological droughts, but also affect several ar6 regions, even at 1.5°c and 2°c of global warming. several regions are also projected to be more strongly affected by hydrological droughts with increasing global warming (neu, wce, eeu, med, sau, wca, sca, nsa, sam, sws, ssa, wna, wsaf, esaf, mdg). increased soil moisture limitation and associated changes in droughts are projected to lead to increased vegetation stress in many regions, with implications for the global land carbon sink (cross chapter box 5). there is high confidence that the global land carbon sink will become less efficient due to soil moisture limitations and associated drought conditions in some regions in higher emissions scenarios, especially under global warming levels above 4°c; however, there is low confidence on how these water cycle feedbacks will play out in lower emissions scenarios (at 2°c global warming or lower; cross chapter box5.1). extreme storms, such as tropical cyclones (tcs), extratropical cyclones (etcs), and severe convective storms often have substantial societal impacts. quantifying the effect of climate change on extreme storms is challenging, partly because extreme storms are rare, short lived, and local, and individual events are largely influenced by stochastic variability. the high degree of random variability makes detection and attribution of extreme storm trends more uncertain than detection and attribution of trends in other aspects of the environment in which the storms evolve (e.g., larger scale temperature trends). projecting changes in extreme storms is also challenging because of constraints in the models’ ability to accurately represent the small scale physical processes that can drive these changes. despite the challenges, progress has been made since ar5. the srex (chapter 3) concluded that there is low confidence in observed long term (40 years or more) trends in tc intensity, frequency, and duration, and any observed trends in phenomena such as tornadoes and hail; it is likely that extratropical storm tracks have shifted poleward in both the northern and southern hemispheres, and that heavy rainfalls and mean maximum wind speeds associated with tcs will increase with continued greenhouse gas warming; it is likely that the global frequency of tcs will either decrease or remain essentially unchanged, while it is more likely than not that the frequency of the most intense storms will increase substantially in some ocean basins; there is low confidence in projections of small scale phenomena such as tornadoes and hail storms; and there is medium confidence that there will be a reduced frequency and a poleward shift of mid latitude cyclones due to future anthropogenic climate change. since srex, several ipcc reports also assessed storms. the ar5 (chapter 2, hartmann et al., 2013) assessment observed with low confidence long term trends in tc metrics, but revised the statement from srex to state that it is virtually certain that there are increasing trends in north atlantic tc activity since the 1970s, with medium confidence that anthropogenic aerosol forcing has contributed to these trends. the ar5 concluded that it is likely that tc precipitation and mean intensity will increase and more likely than not that the frequency of the strongest storms will increase with continued greenhouse gas warming. confidence in projected trends in overall tc frequency remained low. confidence in observed and projected trends in hail storm and tornado events also remained low. the srocc (chapter 6, collins et al., 2019) assessed past and projected tcs and etcs, supporting the ar5 conclusions with some additional detail. literature subsequent to ar5 adds support to the likelihood of increasing trends in tc intensity, precipitation, and frequency of the most intense storms, while some newer studies have added uncertainty to projected trends in overall frequency. a growing body of literature since ar5 on the poleward migration of tcs led to a new assessment in srocc of low confidence that the migration in the western north pacific represents a detectable climate change contribution from anthropogenic forcing. the sr1.5 (chapter 3, hoegh guldberg et al., 2018) essentially confirmed the ar5 assessment of tcs and etcs, adding that heavy precipitation associated with tcs is projected to be higher at 2°c compared to 1.5°c global warming (medium confidence). the srex, ar5, srocc, and sr1.5, do not provide assessments of the atmospheric rivers, and srocc and sr1.5 do not assess severe convective storms and extreme winds. this section assesses the state of knowledge on the four phenomena of tcs, etcs, severe convective storms, and extreme winds. atmospheric rivers are addressed in chapter 8. in this respect, this assessment closely mirrors the srocc assessment of tcs and etcs, while updating srex and ar5 assessments of severe convective storms and extreme winds. the genesis, development, and tracks of tcs depend on conditions of the larger scale circulations of the atmosphere and ocean (christensen et al., 2013). large scale atmospheric circulations, such as the hadley and walker circulations and the monsoon circulations can significantly affect tcs, as can internal variability acting on various time scales (annex iv), from intra seasonal (e.g., the madden julian and boreal summer intraseasonal oscillations and equatorial waves) and interannual (e.g., the el niño southern oscillation and pacific and atlantic meridional modes), to inter decadal (e.g., atlantic multidecadal variability and pacific decadal variability). this broad range of natural variability makes detection of anthropogenic effects difficult, and uncertainties in the projected changes of these modes of variability increase uncertainty in the projected changes in tc activity. aerosol forcing also affects sea surface temperature (sst) patterns and cloud microphysics, and it is likely that observed changes in tc activity are partly caused by changes in aerosol forcing (evan et al., 2011; ting et al., 2015; sobel et al., 2016, 2019; takahashi et al., 2017; zhao et al., 2018; reed et al., 2019). among possible changes from these drivers, there is medium confidence that the hadley cell has widened and will continue to widen in the future (sections 2.3, 3.3 and 4.5). this likely causes latitudinal shifts of tc tracks (sharmila and walsh, 2018). regional tc activity changes are also strongly affected by projected changes in sst warming patterns (yoshida et al., 2017), which are highly uncertain (chapters 4 and 9). identifying past trends in tc metrics remains a challenge due to the heterogeneous character of the historical instrumental data, which are known as ‘best track’ data (schreck et al., 2014). there is low confidence in most reported long term (multi decadal to centennial) trends in tc frequency  or intensity based metrics due to changes in the technology used to collect the best track data. this should not be interpreted as implying that no physical (real) trends exist, but rather as indicating that either the quality or the temporal length of the data is not adequate to provide robust trend detection statements, particularly in the presence of multi decadal variability. there are previous and ongoing efforts to homogenize the best track data (elsner et al., 2008; kossin et al., 2013, 2020; choy et al., 2015; landsea, 2015; emanuel et al., 2018) and there is substantial literature that finds positive trends in intensity related metrics in the best track during the ‘satellite period’, which is generally limited to around the past 40 years (kang and elsner, 2012; kishtawal et al., 2012; kossin et al., 2013, 2020; mei and xie, 2016; zhao et al., 2018; tauvale and tsuboki, 2019). when best track trends are tested using homogenized data, the intensity trends generally remain positive, but are smaller in amplitude (kossin et al., 2013; holland and bruyère, 2014). kossin et al. (2020) extended the homogenized tc intensity record to the period 1979 2017 and identified significant global increases in major tc exceedance probability of about 6% per decade. in addition to trends in tc intensity, there is evidence that tc intensification rates and the frequency of rapid intensification events have increased within the satellite era (kishtawal et al., 2012; balaguru et al., 2018; bhatia et al., 2018). the increase in intensification rates is found in the best track and the homogenized intensity data. a subset of the best track data corresponding to hurricanes that have directly impacted the usa since 1900 is considered to be reliable, and shows no trend in the frequency of usa landfall events (knutson et al., 2019). however, an increasing trend in normalized usa hurricane damage, which accounts for temporal changes in exposed wealth (grinsted et al., 2019), and a decreasing trend in tc translation speed over the usa (kossin, 2019) have also been identified in this period. a similarly reliable subset of the data representing tc landfall frequency over australia shows a decreasing trend in eastern australia since the 1800s (callaghan and power, 2011), as well as in other parts of australia since 1982 (chand et al., 2019; knutson et al., 2019). a paleoclimate proxy reconstruction shows that recent levels of tc interactions along parts of the australian coastline are the lowest in the past 550 1500 years (haig et al., 2014). existing tc datasets show substantial inter decadal variations in basin wide tc frequency and intensity in the western north pacific, but a statistically significant north westward shift in the western north pacific tc tracks since the 1980s (t. c. lee et al., 2020). inthe case of the north indian ocean, analyses of trends are highly dependent on the details of each analysis (e.g., pre  and/or post monsoon season period, or bay of bengal and/or arabian sea region). the most consistent trends are an increase in the occurrence of the most intense tcs, and a decrease in the overall tc frequency, in particular in the bay of bengal (sahoo and bhaskaran, 2016; balaji et al., 2018; singh et al., 2019; baburaj et al., 2020). in the south indian ocean (sio), an increase in the occurrence of the most intense tcs has been noted; however, there are well known data quality issues there (kuleshov et al., 2010; fitchett, 2018). when the sio data are homogenized, a significant increase is found in the fractional proportion of global category 3 5 tc instances (6 hourly intensity estimates during the lifetime of each tc) to all category 1 5 instances (kossin et al., 2020). as with all confined regional analyses of tc frequency, it is generally unclear whether any identified changes are due to a basin wide change in tc frequency, or to systematic track shifts (or both). from an impacts perspective, however, these changes over land are highly relevant and emphasize that large scale modifications in tc behaviour can have a broad spectrum of impacts on a regional scale. subsequent to ar5, two metrics have been analysed that are argued to be comparatively less sensitive to data issues than frequency  and intensity based metrics. trends in these metrics have been identified over the past 70 years or more (knutson et al., 2019). the first metric   the mean latitude where tcs reach their peak intensity   exhibits a global and regional poleward migration during the satellite period (kossin et al., 2014). the poleward migration can influence tc hazard exposure and risk (kossin et al., 2016a) and is consistent with the independently observed expansion of the tropics (lucas et al., 2014). the migration has been linked to changes in the hadley circulation (altman et al., 2018; sharmila and walsh, 2018; studholme and gulev, 2018). the migration is also apparent in the mean locations where tcs exhibit eyes (knapp et al., 2018), which is when tcs are most intense. part of the northern hemisphere poleward migration is due to basin wide changes in tc frequency (kossin et al., 2014, 2016b; moon et al., 2015, 2016) and the trends, as expected, can be sensitive to the time period chosen (tennille and ellis, 2017; kossin, 2018; song and klotzbach, 2018) and to subsetting of the data by intensity (zhan and wang, 2017). the poleward migration is particularly pronounced and well documented in the western north pacific basin (kossin et al., 2016a; oey and chou, 2016; liang et al., 2017; nakamura et al., 2017; altman et al., 2018; daloz and camargo, 2018; j. sun et al., 2019; t. c. lee et al., 2020; yamaguchi and maeda, 2020a; kubota et al., 2021). a second metric that is argued to be comparatively less sensitive to data issues than frequency  and intensity based metrics is tc translation speed (kossin, 2018), which exhibits a global slowdown in the best track data over the period 1949 2016. tc translation speed is a measure of the speed at which tcs move across the earth’s surface, and is very closely related to local rainfall amounts (i.e., a slower translation speed causes greater local rainfall). tc translation speed also affects structural wind damage and coastal storm surge by changing the hazard event duration. the slowdown is observed in the best track data from all basins except the northern indian ocean, and is also found in a number of regions where tcs interact directly with land. the slowing trends identified in the best track data by kossin (2018) have been argued to be largely due to data heterogeneity. moon et al. (2019) and lanzante (2019) provide evidence that meridional tc track shifts project onto the slowing trends, and argue that these shifts are due to the introduction of satellite data. kossin (2019) provides evidence that the slowing trend is real by focusing on atlantic tc track data over the contiguous usa in the 118 year period 1900 2017, which are generally considered reliable. in this period, mean tc translation speed has decreased by 17%. the slowing tc translation speed is expected to increase local rainfall amounts, which would increase coastal and inland flooding. in combination with slowing translation speed, abrupt tc track direction changes   that can be associated with track ‘meanders’ or ‘stalls’   have become increasingly common along the north american coast since the mid 20th century, leading to more rainfall in the region (hall and kossin, 2019). in summary, there is mounting evidence that a variety of tc characteristics have changed over various time periods. it is likely that the global proportion of category 3 5 tropical cyclone instances and the frequency of rapid intensification events have increased globally over the past 40 years. it is very likely that the average location where tcs reach their peak wind intensity has migrated poleward in the western north pacific ocean since the 1940s. it is likely that tc translation speed has slowed over the usa since 1900. accurate projections of future tc activity have two principal requirements: accurate representation of changes in the relevant environmental factors (e.g., ssts) that can affect tc activity, and accurate representation of actual tc activity in given environmental conditions.in particular, models’ capacity to reproduce historical trends or interannual variabilities of tc activity is relevant to the confidence in future projections. one test of the models is to evaluate their ability to reproduce the dependency of the tc statistics in the different basins in the real world, in addition to their capability of reproducing atmospheric and ocean environmental conditions. for the evaluation of projections of tc relevant environmental variables, ar5 confidence statements were based on global surface temperature and moisture, but not on the detailed regional structure of sst and atmospheric circulation changes such as steering flows and vertical shear, which affect characteristics of tcs (genesis, intensity, tracks, etc.). various aspects of tc metrics are used to evaluate how capable models are of simulating present day tc climatologies and variability (e.g., tc frequency, wind intensity, precipitation, size, tracks, and their seasonal and interannual changes) (walsh et al., 2015; camargo and wing, 2016; knutson et al., 2019, 2020). other examples of tc climatology/variability metrics are spatial distributions of tc occurrence and genesis (walsh et al., 2015), seasonal cycles and interannual variability of basin wide activity (zhao et al., 2009; shaevitz et al., 2014; kodama et al., 2015; murakami et al., 2015; yamada et al., 2017) or landfalling activity (lok and chan, 2018), as well as newly developed process diagnostics designed specifically for tcs in climate models (d. kim et al., 2018; wing et al., 2019; moon et al., 2020). confidence in the projection of intense tcs, such as those of category 4 5, generally becomes higher as the resolution of the models becomes higher. the coupled model intercomparison project phases 5 and 6 (cmip5/6) class climate models (around 100 200 km grid spacing) cannot simulate tcs of category 4 5 intensity. they do simulate storms of relatively high vorticity that are at best described as ‘tc like’, but metrics such as storm counts are highly dependent on tracking algorithms (camargo, 2013; wehner et al., 2015; zarzycki and ullrich, 2017; roberts et al., 2020a). high resolution gcms (around 10 60 km grid spacing), as used in highresmip (haarsma et al., 2016; roberts et al., 2020a), begin to capture some structures of tcs more realistically, as well as produce intense tcs of category 4 5 despite the effects of parametrized deep cumulus convection processes (murakami et al., 2015; wehner et al., 2015; yamada et al., 2017; roberts et al., 2018; moon et al., 2020). convection permitting models (around 1 10 km grid spacing), such as used in some dynamical downscaling studies, provide further realism with capturing tc eye wall structures (tsuboki et al., 2015). model characteristics besides resolution, especially details of convective parametrization, can influence a model’s ability to simulate intense tcs (reed and jablonowski, 2011; zhao et al., 2012; he and posselt, 2015; d. kim et al., 2018; zhang and wang, 2018; camargo et al., 2020). however, models’ dynamical cores and other physics also affect simulated tc properties (reed et al., 2015; vidale et al., 2021). both wide area regional and global convection permitting models without the need for parameterized convection are becoming more useful for tc regional model projection studies (tsuboki et al., 2015; kanada et al., 2017a; gutmann et al., 2018) and global model projection studies (satoh et al., 2015, 2017; yamada et al., 2017), as they capture more realistic tc eye wall structures (kinter iii et al., 2013) and are becoming more useful for investigating changes in tc structures (kanada et al., 2013; yamada et al., 2017). large ensemble simulations of gcms with 60 km grid spacing provide tc statistics that allow more reliable detection of changes in the projections, which are not well captured in any single experiment (yoshida et al., 2017; yamaguchi et al., 2020). variable resolution global models offer an alternative to regional models for individual tc or basin wide simulations (yanase et al., 2012; zarzycki et al., 2014; harris et al., 2016; reed et al., 2020; stansfield et al., 2020). computationally less intense than equivalent uniform resolution global models, they also do not require lateral boundary conditions, thus reducing this source of error (hashimoto et al., 2016). confidence in the projection of tc statistics and properties is increased by the use of higher resolution models with more realistic simulations. operational forecasting models also reproduce tcs, and their use for climate projection studies shows promise. however, there is limited application for future projections as they are specifically developed for operational purposes, and tc climatology is not necessarily well evaluated. intercomparison of operational models indicates that enhancement of horizontal resolution can provide more credible projections of tcs (nakano et al., 2017). likewise, high resolution climate models show promise as tc forecast tools (zarzycki and jablonowski, 2015; reed et al., 2020), further narrowing the continuum of weather and climate models, and increasing confidence in projections of future tc behaviour. however, higher horizontal resolution does not necessarily lead to an improved tc climatology (camargo et al., 2020). atmosphere ocean interaction is an important process in tc evolution. atmosphere ocean coupled models are generally better than atmosphere only models at capturing realistic processes related to tcs (murakami et al., 2015; ogata et al., 2015, 2016; zarzycki, 2016; kanada et al., 2017b; scoccimarro et al., 2017). however, the basin scale sst biases commonly found in atmosphere ocean models can introduce substantial errors in the simulated tc number (hsu et al., 2019). higher resolution ocean models improve the simulation of tcs by reducing the sst climatology bias (li and sriver, 2018; roberts et al., 2020a). coarse resolution atmospheric models may degrade coupled model performance as well. for example, in a case study of hurricane harvey, trenberth et al. (2018) suggested that the lack of realistic hurricane frequency and intensity within coupled climate models hampers the models’ ability to simulate sst and ocean heat content and their changes. even with higher resolution atmosphere ocean coupled models, tc projection studies still rely on assumptions in experimental design that introduce uncertainties. computational constraints often limit the number of simulations, resulting in relatively small ensemble sizes and incomplete analyses of possible future sst magnitude and pattern changes (zhao and held, 2011; knutson et al., 2013). uncertainties in aerosol forcing also are reflected in tc projection uncertainty (wang et al., 2014). regional climate models (rcm) with grid spacing around 15 50 km can be used to study the projection of tcs. rcms are run with lateral and surface boundary conditions, which are specified by the atmospheric state and ssts simulated by gcms. various combinations of the lateral and surface boundary conditions can be chosen for rcm studies, and uncertainties in the projection can be further examined in general. they are used for studying changes in tc characteristics in a specific area, such as vietnam (redmond et al., 2015) and the philippines (gallo et al., 2019). less computationally expensive downscaling approaches that allow larger ensembles and long term studies are also used in the projection of tcs (emanuel et al., 2006; c.y. lee et al., 2018). a statistical dynamical tc downscaling method requires assumptions of the rate of seeding of random initial disturbances, which are generally assumed to not change with climate change (emanuel et al., 2008; emanuel, 2013). the results with the downscaling approach might depend on the assumptions, which are required for the simplification of the methods. in summary, various types of models are useful to study how tcs change in response to climate changes, and there is no unique solution for choosing a model type. however, higher resolution models generally capture tc properties more realistically (high confidence). in particular, models with horizontal resolutions of 10 60 km are capable of reproducing strong tcs with category 4 5 and those of 1 10 km are capable of the eye wall structure of tcs. uncertainties in tc simulations come from details of the model configuration of both dynamical and physical processes. models with realistic atmosphere ocean interactions are generally better than atmosphere only models at reproducing realistic tc evolutions (high confidence). there is general agreement in the literature that anthropogenic greenhouse gases and aerosols have measurably affected observed oceanic and atmospheric variability in tc prone regions (see chapter 3). this underpinned the srocc assessment of medium confidence that humans have contributed to the observed increase in atlantic hurricane activity since the 1970s (chapter 5, bindoff et al., 2013). literature subsequent to ar5 lends further support to this statement (knutson et al., 2019). however, there is still no consensus on the relative magnitude of human and natural influences on past changes in atlantic hurricane activity, and particularly on which factor has dominated the observed increase (ting et al., 2015) and it remains uncertain whether past changes in atlantic tc activity are outside the range of natural variability. a recent result using high resolution dynamical model experiments suggested that the observed spatial contrast in tc trends cannot be explained only by multi decadal natural variability, and that external forcing plays an important role (murakami et al., 2020).observational evidence for significant global increases in the proportion of major tc intensities (kossin et al., 2020) is consistent with both theory and numerical modelling simulations, which generally indicate an increase in mean tc peak intensity and the proportion of very intense tcs in a warming world (knutson et al., 2015, 2020; walsh et al., 2015, 2016). in addition, high resolution coupled model simulations provide support that natural variability alone is unlikely to explain the magnitude of the observed increase in tc intensification rates and upward tc intensity trend in the atlantic basin since the early 1980s (bhatia et al., 2019; murakami et al., 2020). the cause of the observed slowdown in tc translation speed is not yet clear. yamaguchi et al. (2020) used large ensemble simulations to argue that part of the slowdown is due to actual latitudinal shifts of tc tracks, rather than data artefacts, in addition to atmospheric circulation changes. g. zhang et al. (2020) used large ensemble simulations to show that anthropogenic forcing can lead to a robust slowdown, particularly outside of the tropics at higher latitudes. yamaguchi and maeda (2020b) found a significant slowdown in the western north pacific over the past 40 years and attributed the slowdown to a combination of natural variability and global warming. the slowing trend since 1900 over the usa is robust and significant after removing multi decadal variability from the time series (kossin, 2019). among the hypotheses discussed is the physical linkage between warming and slowing circulation (held and soden, 2006; see also section 8.2.2.2), with expectations of arctic amplification and weakening circulation patterns through weakening meridional temperature gradients (coumou et al., 2018; see also cross chapter box 10.1), or through changes in planetary wave dynamics (mann et al., 2017). the tropics expansion and the poleward shift of the mid latitude westerlies associated with warming is also suggested as the reason of the slowdown (g. zhang et al., 2020). however, the connection of these mechanisms to the slowdown has not been robustly shown. furthermore, slowing trends have not been unambiguously observed in circulation patterns that steer tcs, such as the walker and hadley circulations (section 2.3.1.4), although these circulations generally slow down in numerical simulations under global warming (sections 4.5.1.6 and 8.4.2.2). the observed poleward trend in western north pacific tcs remains significant after accounting for the known modes of dominant interannual to decadal variability in the region (kossin et al., 2016a), and is also found in cmip5 model simulated tcs (in the recent historical period 1980 2005), although it is weaker than observed and is not statistically significant (kossin et al., 2016a). however, the trend is significant in 21st century cmip5 projections under the rcp8.5 scenario, with a similar spatial pattern and magnitude to the past observed changes in that basin over the period 1945 2016, supporting a possible anthropogenic greenhouse gas contribution to the observed trends (kossin et al., 2016a; knutson et al., 2019). the recent active tc seasons in some basins have been studied to determine whether there is anthropogenic influence. for 2015, murakami et al. (2017b) explored the unusually high tc frequency near hawaii and in the eastern pacific basin. w. zhang et al. (2016b) considered unusually high accumulated cyclone energy (ace) in the western north pacific; and s. h. yang et al. (2018) and yamada et al. (2019) looked at tc intensification in the western north pacific. these studies suggest that the anomalous tc activity in 2015 was not solely explained by the effect of an extreme el niño (see box 11.4) and that there was also an anthropogenic contribution, mainly through the effects of ssts in subtropical regions. in the post monsoon seasons of 2014 and 2015, tropical storms with lifetime maximum winds greater than 46 m s−1 were first observed over the arabian sea, and murakami et al. (2017a) showed that the probability of late season severe tropical storms is increased by anthropogenic forcing compared to the preindustrial era. murakami et al. (2018) concluded that the active 2017 atlantic hurricane season was mainly caused by pronounced ssts in the tropical north atlantic and that these types of seasonal events will intensify with projected anthropogenic forcing. the trans basin sst change, which might be driven by anthropogenic aerosol forcing, also affects tc activity. takahashi et al. (2017) suggested that a decrease in sulphate aerosol emissions caused about half of the observed decreasing trends in tc genesis frequency in the south eastern region of the western north pacific during 1992 2011. event attribution is used in tc case studies to test whether the severities of recent intense tcs are explained without anthropogenic effects. in a case study of hurricane sandy (2012), lackmann (2015) found no statistically significant impact of anthropogenic climate change on storm intensity, while projections in a warmer world showed significant strengthening. however, magnusson et al. (2014) found that, in european centre for medium range weather forecast (ecmwf) simulations, the simulated cyclone depth and intensity, as well as precipitation, were larger when the model was driven by the warmer actual ssts than the climatological average ssts. in super typhoon haiyan, which struck the philippines on 8 november 2013, takayabu et al. (2015) took an event attribution approach with cloud system resolving (around 1 km) downscaling ensemble experiments to evaluate the anthropogenic effect on typhoons, and showed that the intensity of the simulated worst case storm in the actual conditions was stronger than that in a hypothetical condition without historical anthropogenic forcing in the model. however, in a similar approach with two coarser parametrized convection models, wehner et al. (2019) found conflicting human influences on haiyan’s intensity. patricola and wehner (2018) found little evidence of an attributable change in intensity of hurricanes katrina (2005), irma (2017), and maria (2017) using a regional climate model configured between 3 km and 4.5 km resolution. they did, however, find attributable increases in heavy precipitation totals. these results imply that higher resolution, such as in a convective permitting 5 km or less mesh model, is required to obtain a robust anthropogenic intensification of a strong tc by simulating realistic rapid intensification (kanada and wada, 2016; kanada et al., 2017a), and that whether the tc intensification can be attributed to the recent warming depends on the case. the dominant factor in the extreme rainfall amounts during hurricane harvey’s passage onto the usa in 2017 was its slow translation speed. but studies published after the event have argued that anthropogenic climate change contributed to an increase in rain rate, which compounded the extreme local rainfall caused by the slow translation. emanuel (2017) used a large set of synthetically generated storms and concluded that the occurrence of extreme rainfall as observed in harvey was substantially enhanced by anthropogenic changes to the larger scale ocean and atmosphere characteristics; trenberth et al. (2018) linked harvey’s rainfall totals to the anomalously large ocean heat content from the gulf of mexico; and van oldenborgh et al. (2017) and risser and wehner (2017) applied extreme value analysis to extreme rainfall records in the houston, texas region, both attributing large increases to climate change. large precipitation increases during harvey due to global warming were also found using climate models (van oldenborgh et al., 2017; s. y.s. wang et al., 2018). harvey precipitation totals were estimated in these papers to be three to 10 times more probable due to climate change. a best estimate from a regional climate and flood model is that urbanization increased the risk of the harvey flooding by a factor of 21 (w. zhang et al., 2018), using a regional climate and flood model, found that surface roughness from urbanization increased the risk of the harvey flooding by a factor of 21. anthropogenic effects on precipitation increases were also predicted in advance from a forecast model for hurricane florence in 2018 (reed et al., 2020). in summary, it is very likely that the recent active tc seasons in the north atlantic, the north pacific, and arabian basins cannot be explained without an anthropogenic influence. the anthropogenic influence on these changes is principally associated to aerosol forcing, with stronger contributions to the response in the north atlantic. it is more likely than not that the slowdown of tc translation speed over the usa has contributions from anthropogenic forcing. it is likely that the poleward migration of tcs in the western north pacific and the global increase in tc intensity rates cannot be explained entirely by natural variability. event attribution studies of specific strong tcs provide limited evidence for anthropogenic effects on tc intensifications so far, but high confidence for increases in tc heavy precipitation. there is high confidence that anthropogenic climate change contributed to extreme rainfall amounts during hurricane harvey (2017) and other intense tcs. a summary of studies on tc projections for the late 21st century, particularly studies since ar5, is given by knutson et al. (2020), which is an assessment report mandated by the world meteorological organization (wmo). studies subsequent to knutson et al. (2020) are generally consistent, and the confidence assessments here closely follow theirs (cha et al., 2020), although there are some differences due to the varying confidence calibrations between the ipcc and wmo reports. there is not an established theory for the drivers of future changes in the frequency of tcs. most, but not all, high resolution global simulations project significant reductions in the total number of tcs, with the bulk of the reduction at the weaker end of the intensity spectrum as the climate warms (knutson et al., 2020). recent exceptions based on high resolution coupled model results arenoted in bhatia et al. (2018) and vecchi et al. (2019). vecchi et al. (2019) showed that the representation of synoptic scale seeds for tc genesis in their high resolution model causes different projections of global tc frequency, and there is evidence for a decrease in cyclone seeds in some projected tcsimulations (sugi et al., 2020; yamada et al., 2011). however, other research indicates that tc seeds are not an independent control on climatological tc frequency, rather the seeds covary with the large scale controls on tcs (patricola et al., 2018). while empirical genesis indices derived from observations and reanalysis describe well the observed subseasonal and interannual variability of current tc frequency (camargo et al., 2007, 2009; tippett et al., 2011; menkes et al., 2012), they fail to predict the decreased tc frequency found in most high resolution model simulations (zhang et al., 2010; camargo, 2013; wehner et al., 2015), as they generally project an increase as the climate warms. this suggests a limitation of the use of the empirical genesis indices for projections of tc genesis, in particular due to their sensitivity to the humidity variable considered in the genesis index for these projections (camargo et al., 2014). in a different approach, a statistical dynamical downscaling framework assuming a constant seeding rate with warming (emanuel, 2013, 2021) exhibits increases in tc frequency consistent with genesis indices based projections, while downscaling with a different model leads to two different scenarios depending on the humidity variable considered (c. y. lee et al., 2020). this disparity in the sign of the projected change in global tc frequency, and the difficulty in explaining the mechanisms behind the different signed responses, further emphasize the lack of process understanding of future changes in tropical cyclogenesis (walsh et al., 2015; hoogewind et al., 2020). even within a single model, uncertainty in the pattern of future sst changes leads to large uncertainties (including the sign) in the projected change in tc frequency in individual ocean basins, although global tcs would appear to be less sensitive (yoshida et al., 2017; bacmeister et al., 2018). changes in sst and atmospheric temperature and moisture play a role in tropical cyclogenesis (walsh et al., 2015). reductions in vertical convective mass flux due to increased tropical stability have been associated with a reduction in cyclogenesis (held and zhao, 2011; sugi et al., 2012). satoh et al. (2015) further posit that the robust simulated increase in the number of intense tcs, and hence increased vertical mass flux associated with intense tcs, must lead to a decrease in overall tc frequency because of this association. the genesis potential index can be modified to mimic the tc frequency decreases of a model by altering the treatment of humidity (camargo et al., 2014). this supports the idea that increased mid tropospheric saturation deficit (emanuel et al., 2008) controls tc frequency, but the approach remains empirical. other possible controlling factors, such as a decline in the number of seeds (held constant in emanuel’s downscaling approach, or dependent on the genesis index formulation in the approach proposed by c. y. lee et al., 2020) caused by increased atmospheric stability have been proposed, but questioned as an important factor (patricola et al., 2018). the resolution of atmospheric models affects the number of seeds, hence tc genesis frequency (vecchi et al., 2019; sugi et al., 2020; yamada et al., 2021). the diverse and sometimes inconsistent projected changes in global tc frequency by high resolution models indicate that better process understanding and improvement of the models are needed to raise confidence in these changes. most tc permitting model simulations (10 60 km or finer grid spacing) are consistent in their projection of increases in the proportion of intense tcs (category 4 5), as well as an increase in the intensity of the strongest tcs defined by maximum wind speed or central pressure fall (murakami et al., 2012; tsuboki et al., 2015; wehner et al., 2018a; knutson et al., 2020). the general reduction in the total number of tcs, which is concentrated in storms weaker than or equal to category 1, contributes to this increase. the models are somewhat less consistent in projecting an increase in the frequency of category 4 5tcs (wehner et al., 2018a; knutson et al., 2020). the projected increase in the intensity of the strongest tcs is consistent with theoretical understanding (e.g., emanuel, 1987) and observations (e.g., kossin et al., 2020). for a 2°c global warming, the median proportion of category 4 5 tcs increases by 13%, while the median global tc frequency decreases by 14%, which implies that the median of the global category 4 5 tc frequency is slightly reduced by 1% or almost unchanged (knutson et al., 2020). murakami et al. (2020) projected a decrease in tc frequency over the coming century in the north atlantic due to greenhouse warming, as consistent with dunstone et al. (2013), and a reduction in tc frequency almost everywhere in the tropics in response to +1% co2 forcing. exceptions include the central north pacific (hawaii region), east of the philippines in the north pacific, and two relatively small regions in the northern arabian sea and bay of bengal. these projections can vary substantially between ocean basins, possibly due to differences in regional sst warming and warming patterns (sugi et al., 2017; yoshida et al., 2017; bacmeister et al., 2018). a summary of projections of tc characteristics is schematically shown by figure 11.20. the increase in global tc maximum surface wind speeds is about 5% for a 2°c global warming across a number of high resolution multi decadal studies (knutson et al., 2020). this indicates the deepening in global tc minimum surface pressure under the global warming conditions. a regional cloud permitting model study shows that the strongest tc in the western north pacific can be as strong as 857 hpa in minimum surface pressure with a wind speed of 88 m s 1under warming conditions in 2074 2087 (tsuboki et al., 2015). tcs are also measured by quantities such as ace and the power dissipation index (pdi), which conflate tc intensity, frequency, and duration (murakami et al., 2014). several tc modelling studies (yamada et al., 2010; h.s. kim et al., 2014; knutson et al., 2015) project little change or decreases in the globally accumulated value of pdi or ace, which is due to the decrease in the total number of tcs. a projected increase in global average tc rain rates of about 12% for a 2°c global warming is consistent with the clausius clapeyron scaling of saturation specific humidity (knutson et al., 2020). increases substantially greater than clausius clapeyron scaling are projected in some regions, which is caused by increased low level moisture convergence due to projected tc intensity increases in those regions (knutson et al., 2015; phibbs and toumi, 2016; patricola and wehner, 2018; m. liu et al., 2019a). projections of tc precipitation using large ensemble experiments (kitoh and endo, 2019) show that the annual maximum one day precipitation total is projected to increase, except for the western north pacific where only a small change (or even a reduction) is projected, mainly due to a projected decrease of tc frequency. they also show that the 10 year return value of extreme rx1day associated with tcs will greatly increase in a region extending from hawaii to the south of japan. tc tracks and the location of topography relative to tcs significantly affect precipitation, thus, in general, areas on the eastern and southern faces of mountains have more impacts of tc precipitation changes (hatsuzuka et al., 2020). projection studies using variable resolution models in the north atlantic (stansfield et al., 2020) indicate that tc related precipitation rates within north atlantic tcs and the amount of hourly precipitation due to tc are projected to increase by the end of the century compared to a historical simulation. however, the annual average tc related rx5day over the eastern usa is projected to decrease because of a reduction in landfalling tcs. rcm studies with around 25 50 km grid spacing are used to study projected changes in tcs. the projected changes of tcs in south east asia simulated by rcms are consistent with those of most gcms, showing a decrease in tc frequency and an increase in the amount of tc associated precipitation or an increase in the frequency of intense tcs (redmond et al., 2015; gallo et al., 2019). projected changes in tc tracks or tc areas of occurrence in the late 21st century vary considerably among available studies, although there is better agreement in the western north pacific. several studies project either poleward or eastward expansion of tc occurrence over the western north pacific region, and more tc occurrence in the central north pacific (yamada et al., 2017; yoshida et al., 2017; wehner et al., 2018a; roberts et al., 2020b). the observed poleward expansion of the latitude of maximum tc intensity in the western north pacific is consistently reproduced by the cmip5 models and downscaled models, and these models show further poleward expansion in the future; the projected mean migration rate of the mean latitude where tcs reach their lifetime maximum intensity is 0.2±0.1° from cmip5 model results, while it is 0.13±0.04° from downscaled models in the western north pacific (kossin et al., 2014, 2016a). in the north atlantic, while the location of tc maximum intensity does not show clear poleward migration observationally (kossin et al., 2014), it tends to migrate poleward in projections (garner et al., 2017). the poleward migration is less robust among models and observations in the indian ocean, eastern north pacific, and south pacific (e.g., tauvale and tsuboki, 2019; ramsay et al. 2018; cattiaux et al. 2020). there is presently no clear consensus in projected changes in tc translation speed (knutson et al., 2020), although recent studies suggest a slowdown outside of the tropics (kossin, 2019; yamaguchi et al., 2020; g. zhang et al., 2020), but regionally there can even be an acceleration of the storms (hassanzadeh et al., 2020). the spatial extent, or ‘size’, of the tc wind field is an important determinant of storm surge and damage. no detectable anthropogenic influences on tc size have been identified to date, because tcs in observations vary in size substantially (chan and chan, 2015) and there is no definite theory on what controls tc size, although this is an area of active research (chavas and emanuel, 2014; chan and chan, 2018). however, projections by high resolution models indicate future broadening of tc wind fields when compared to tcs of the same categories (yamada et al., 2017), while knutson et al. (2015) simulate a reasonable interbasin distribution of tc size climatology, but project no statistically significant change in global average tc size. a plausible mechanism is that, as the tropopause height becomes higher with global warming, the eye wall areas become wider because the eye walls are inclined outward with height to the tropopause. this effect is only reproduced in high resolution convection permitting models capturing eye walls, and such modelling studies are not common. moreover, the projected tc size changes are generally on the order of 10% or less, and these size changes are still highly variable between basins and studies. thus, the projected change in both magnitude and sign of tc size is uncertain. the coastal effects of tcs depend on tc intensity, size, track, and translation speed. projected increases in sea level, average tc intensity, and tc rainfall rates each generally act to further elevate future storm surge and fresh water flooding (see section 9.6.4.2). changes in tc frequency could contribute toward increasing or decreasing future storm surge risk, depending on the net effects of changes in weaker vs stronger storms. several studies (mcinnes et al., 2014, 2016; little et al., 2015; garner et al., 2017; timmermans et al., 2017, 2018) have explored future projections of storm surge in the context of anthropogenic climate change with the influence of both sea level rise and future tc changes. garner et al. (2017) investigated the near future changes in the new york city coastal flood hazard, and suggested a small change in storm surge height because effects of tc intensification are compensated by the offshore shifts in tc tracks, but concluded that the overall effect due to the rising sea levels would increase the flood hazard. future projection studies of storm surge in east asia, including china, japan and korea, also indicate that storm surges due to tcs become more severe (j.a. yang et al., 2018; mori et al., 2019, 2021; j. chen et al., 2020b). for the pacific islands, mcinnes et al. (2014) found that the future projected increase in storm surge in fiji is dominated by sea level rise, and projected tc changes make only a minor contribution. among various storm surge factors, there is high confidence that sea level rise will lead to a higher possibility of extreme coastal water levels in most regions, with all other factors assumed equal. in the north atlantic, vertical wind shear, which inhibits tc genesis and intensification, varies in a quasi dipole pattern, with one centre of action in the tropics and another along the south east usa coast (vimont and kossin, 2007). this pattern of variability creates a protective barrier of high shear along the usa coast during periods of heightened tc activity in the tropics (kossin, 2017), and appears to be a natural part of the atlantic ocean atmosphere climate system (ting et al., 2019). greenhouse gas forcing in cmip5 and the community earth system model large ensemble (kay et al., 2015) simulations, however, erodes the pattern and degrades the natural shear barrier along the usa coast. following the rcp8.5 emissions scenario, the magnitude of the erosion of the barrier equals the amplitude of past natural variability (time of emergence) by the mid 21st century (ting et al., 2019). the projected reduction of shear along the usa east coast with warming is consistent among studies (e.g., vecchi and soden, 2007). in summary, average peak tc wind speeds and the proportion of category 4 5 tcs will very likely increase globally with warming. it is likely that the frequency of category 4 5 tcs will increase in limited regions over the western north pacific. it is very likely that average tc rain rates will increase with warming, and likely that the peak rain rates will increase at rate greater than the clausius clapeyron scaling rate of 7% per 1°c of warming in some regions due to increased low level moisture convergence caused by regional increases in tc wind intensity. it is likely that the average location where tcs reach their peak wind intensity will migrate poleward in the western north pacific ocean as the tropics expand with warming, and that the global frequency of tcs over all categories will decrease or remain unchanged. this section focuses on extratropical cyclones (etcs) that are either classified as strong or extreme by using some measure of their intensity, or by being associated with the occurrence of extremes in variables such as precipitation or near surface wind speed (seneviratne et al., 2012). since ar5, the high relevance of etcs for extreme precipitation events has been well established (pfahl and wernli, 2012; catto and pfahl, 2013; utsumi et al., 2017), with 80% or more of hourly and daily precipitation extremes being associated with either etcs or fronts over oceanic mid latitude regions, and somewhat smaller, but still very large, proportions of events over mid latitude land regions (utsumi et al., 2017). the emphasis in this section is on individual etcs that have been identified using some detection and tracking algorithms. mid latitude atmospheric rivers are assessed in section 8.3.2.8. section 2.3.1.4.3 concluded that there is overall low confidence in recent changes in the total number of etcs over both hemispheres, and that there is medium confidence in a poleward shift of the storm tracks over both hemispheres since the 1980s. overall, there is also low confidence in past century trends in the number and intensity of the strongest etcs due to the large interannual and decadal variability (feser et al., 2015; reboita et al., 2015; wang et al., 2016; varino et al., 2019) and due to temporal and spatial heterogeneities in the number and type of assimilated data in reanalyses, particularly before the satellite era (krueger et al., 2013; tilinina et al., 2013; befort et al., 2016; chang and yau, 2016; wang et al., 2016). there is medium confidence that the agreement among reanalyses and detection and tracking algorithms is higher when considering stronger cyclones (neu et al., 2013; pepler et al., 2015; wang et al., 2016). over the southern hemisphere, there is high confidence that the total number of etcs with low central pressures (<980 hpa) has increased between 1979 and 2009, with all eight reanalyses considered by wang et al. (2016) showing positive trends, and five of them showing statistically significant trends. similar results were found by reboita et al. (2015) using a different detection and tracking algorithm and a single reanalysis product. over the northern hemisphere, there is high agreement among reanalyses that the number of cyclones with low central pressures (<970 hpa) has decreased in summer and winter during the period 1979 2010 (tilinina et al., 2013; chang et al., 2016). however, changes exhibit substantial decadal variability and do not show monotonic trends since the 1980s. for example, over the arctic and north atlantic, tilinina et al. (2013) showed that the number of cyclones with very low central pressure (<960 hpa) increased from 1979 to 1990 and then declined until 2010 in all five reanalyses considered. over the north pacific, the number of cyclones with very low central pressure reached a peak around 2000 and then decreased until 2010 in the five reanalyses considered (tilinina et al., 2013). overall, however, it should be noted that characterising trends in the dynamical intensity of etcs (e.g., wind speeds) using the absolute central pressure is problematic because the central pressure depends on the background mean sea level pressure, which varies seasonally and regionally (e.g., befort et al., 2016). there is high confidence that coarse resolution climate models (e.g., cmip5 and cmip6) underestimate the dynamical intensity of etcs, including the strongest etcs, as measured using a variety of metrics, including mean pressure gradient, mean vorticity and near surface wind speeds, over most regions (colle et al., 2013; zappa et al., 2013a; govekar et al., 2014; di luca et al., 2016; trzeciak et al., 2016; seiler et al., 2018; priestley et al., 2020). there is also high confidence that most current climate models underestimate the number of explosive systems (i.e., systems showing a decrease in mean sea level pressure of at least 24 hpa in 24 hours) over both hemispheres (seiler and zwiers, 2016a; gao et al., 2020;priestley et al., 2020). there is high confidence that the underestimation of the intensity of etcs is associated with the coarse horizontal resolution of climate models, with higher horizontal resolution models, including highresmip and cordex, usually showing better performance (colle et al., 2013; zappa et al., 2013a; di luca et al., 2016; trzeciak et al., 2016; seiler et al., 2018; gao et al., 2020; priestley et al., 2020). the improvement by higher resolution models is found, even when comparing models and reanalyses after post processing data to a common resolution (zappa et al., 2013a; di luca et al., 2016; priestley et al., 2020). the systematic bias in the intensity of etcs has also been linked to the inability of current climate models to resolve diabatic processes, particularly those related to the release of latent heat (willison et al., 2013; trzeciak et al., 2016) and the formation of clouds (govekar et al., 2014). there is medium confidence that climate models simulate well the spatial distribution of precipitation associated with etcs over the northern hemisphere, together with some of the main features of the etc life cycle, including the maximum in precipitation occurring just before the peak in dynamical intensity (e.g., vorticity) as observed in a reanalysis and observations (hawcroft et al., 2018). there is, however, large observational uncertainty in etc associated precipitation (hawcroft et al., 2018) and limitations in the simulation of frontal precipitation, including overly low rainfall intensity over mid latitude oceanic areas in both hemispheres (catto et al., 2015). (section 3.3.3.3 concluded that there is low confidence in the attribution of observed changes in the number of etcs in the northern hemisphere and high confidence that the poleward shift of storm tracks in the southern hemisphere is linked to human activity, mostly due to emissions of ozone depleting substances. specific studies attributing changes in the most extreme etcs are not available. the human influence on individual extreme etc events has been considered only a few times and there is overall low confidence in the attribution of these changes (nasem, 2016; vautard et al., 2019). the frequency of etcs is expected to change, primarily following a poleward shift of the storm tracks as discussed in section 4.5.1.6 (see also figure 4.31) and section 8.4.2.8. there is medium confidence that changes in the dynamical intensity (e.g., wind speeds) of etcs will be small, although changes in the location of storm tracks can lead to substantial changes in local extreme wind speeds (zappa et al., 2013b; chang, 2014; li et al., 2014; seiler and zwiers, 2016b; yettella and kay, 2017; barcikowska et al., 2018; kar man chang, 2018). yettella and kay (2017) detected and tracked etcs over both hemispheres in an ensemble of 30 community earth system model large ensemble simulations, differing only in their initial conditions, and found that changes in mean wind speeds around etc centres are often negligible between present (1986 2005) and future (2081 2100) periods. using 19 cmip5 models, zappa et al. (2013b) found an overall reduction in the number of cyclones associated with low troposphere (850 hpa) wind speeds larger than 25 m s 1 over the north atlantic and europe with the number of the 10% strongest cyclones decreasing by about 8% and 6% in december january february and june july august according to the rcp4.5 scenario (2070 2099 vs. 1976 2005). over the north pacific, chang (2014) showed that cmip5 models project a decrease in the frequency of etcs, with the largest central pressure perturbation (i.e., the depth, strongly related with low level wind speeds) by the end of the century according to simulations using the rcp8.5 scenario. using projections from cmip5 gcms under the rcp8.5 scenario (1981 2000 to 2081 2100), seiler and zwiers (2016b) projected a northward shift in the number of explosive etcs in the northern pacific, with fewer and weaker events south, and more frequent and stronger events north of 45°n. using 19 cmip5 gcms under the rcp8.5 scenario, kar man chang (2018) found a significant decrease in the number of etcs associated with extreme wind speeds (2081 2100 vs. 1980 99) over the northern hemisphere (average decrease of 17%) and over some smaller regions, including the pacific and atlantic regions. over the southern hemisphere, future changes (rcp8.5 scenario; 1980 1999 to 2081 2100) in extreme etcs were studied by chang (2017) using 26 cmip5 models, and a variety of intensity metrics (850 hpa vorticity, 850 hpa wind speed, mean sea level pressure and near surface wind speed). they found that the number of extreme cyclones is projected to increase by at least 20% and as much as 50%, depending on the specific metric used to define extreme etcs. increases in the number of strong cyclones appear to be robust across models and for most seasons, although they show strong regional variations, with increases occurring mostly over the southern flank of the storm track, consistent with a shift and intensification of the storm track. overall, there is medium confidence that projected changes in the dynamical intensity of etcs depend on the resolution and formulation (e.g., explicit or implicit representation of convection) of climate models (booth et al., 2013; michaelis et al., 2017; zhang and colle, 2017). as reported in ar5 and in section 8.4.2.8, despite small changes in the dynamical intensity of etcs, there is high confidence that the precipitation associated with etcs will increase in the future (zappa et al., 2013b; marciano et al., 2015; pepler et al., 2016; michaelis et al., 2017; yettella and kay, 2017; zhang and colle, 2017; barcikowska et al., 2018; hawcroft et al., 2018; zarzycki, 2018; kodama et al., 2019; bevacqua et al., 2020a; reboita et al., 2021). there is high confidence that increases in precipitation will follow increases in low level water vapour (i.e., about 7% per 1°c of surface warming; see box 11.1) and will be larger for higher warming levels (zhang and colle, 2017). there is medium confidence that precipitation changes will show regional and seasonal differences due to distinct changes in atmospheric humidity and dynamical conditions (zappa et al., 2015; hawcroft et al., 2018), with decreases in some specific regions such as the mediterranean (zappa et al., 2015; barcikowska et al., 2018). there is high confidence that snowfall associated with winter etcs will decrease in the future, because increases in tropospheric temperatures lead to a lower proportion of precipitation falling as snow (o’gorman, 2014; rhoades et al., 2018; zarzycki, 2018). however, there is medium confidence that extreme snowfall events associated with winter etcs will change little in regions where snowfall will be supported in the future (o’gorman, 2014; zarzycki, 2018). in summary, there is low confidence in past changes in the dynamical intensity (e.g., maximum wind speeds) of etcs and medium confidence that, in the future, these changes will be small, although changes in the location of storm tracks could lead to substantial changes in local extreme wind speeds. there is high confidence that average and maximum etc precipitation rates will increase with warming, with the magnitude of the increases associated with increases in atmospheric water vapour. there is medium confidence that projected changes in the intensity of etcs, including wind speeds and precipitation, depend on the resolution and formulation of climate models. severe convective storms are convective systems that are associated with extreme phenomena such as tornadoes, hail, heavy precipitation (rain or snow), strong winds, and lightning. the assessment of changes in severe convective storms in srex (chapter 3, seneviratne et al., 2012) and ar5 (chapter 12, collins et al., 2013) is limited and focused mainly on tornadoes and hail storms. the srex assessed that there is low confidence in observed trends in tornadoes and hail because of data inhomogeneities and inadequacies in monitoring systems. subsequent literature assessed in the climate science special report (kossin et al., 2017) led to the assessment of the observed tornado activity over the 2000s in the usa, with a decrease in the number of days per year with tornadoes and an increase in the number of tornadoes on these days (medium confidence). however, there is low confidence in past trends for hail and severe thunderstorm winds. climate models consistently project environmental changes that would support an increase in the frequency and intensity of severe thunderstorms that combine tornadoes, hail, and winds (high confidence), but there is low confidence in the details of the projected increase. regional aspects of severe convective storms and details of the assessment of tornadoes and hail are also assessed in section 12.3.3.2 (tornadoes), section 12.3.4.5 (hail), section 12.4.5.3 (europe), section 12.4.6.3 (north america), and section 12.7.2 (regional gaps and uncertainties). severe convective storms are sometimes embedded in synoptic scale weather systems, such as tcs, etcs, and fronts (kunkel et al., 2013). they are also generated as individual events as mesoscale convective systems (mcss) and mesoscale convective complexes (mccs, a special type of a large, organized and long lived mcs), without being clearly embedded within larger scale weather systems. in addition to the general vigorousness of precipitation, hail, and winds associated with mcss, characteristics of mcss are viewed in new perspectives in recent years, probably because of both the development of dense mesoscale observing networks and advances in high resolution mesoscale modelling (sections 11.7.3.2 and 11.7.3.3). the horizontal scale of mcss is discussed with their organization of the convective structure, and it is examined with a concept of ‘convective aggregation’ in recent years (holloway et al., 2017). mcss sometimes take a linear shape and stay almost stationary with successive production of cumulonimbus on the upstream side (back building type convection), and cause heavy rainfall (schumacher and johnson, 2005). many of the recent severe rainfall events in japan are associated with band shaped precipitation systems (kunii et al., 2016; oizumi et al., 2018; tsuguti et al., 2018; kato, 2020), suggesting common characteristics of severe precipitation, at least in east asia. the convective modes of severe storms in the usa can be classified into rotating or linear modes and preferable environmental conditions for these modes, such as vertical shear, have been identified (trapp et al., 2005; smith et al., 2013; allen, 2018). cloud microphysics characteristics of mcss were examined and the roles of warm rain processes on extreme precipitation were emphasized recently (sohn et al., 2013; hamada et al., 2015; hamada and takayabu, 2018). idealized studies also suggest the importance of ice and mixed phase processes of cloud microphysics on extreme precipitation (sandvik et al., 2018; bao and sherwood, 2019). however, it is unknown whether the types of mcs are changing in recent periods or observed ubiquitously all over the world. severe convective storms occur under conditions preferable for deep convection, that is, conditionally unstable stratification, sufficient moisture, both in lower and middle levels of the atmosphere, and a strong vertical shear. these large scale environmental conditions are viewed as necessary conditions for the occurrence of severe convective systems, or the resulting tornadoes and lightning, and the relevance of these factors strongly depends on the region (e.g., antonescu et al., 2016a; allen, 2018; tochimoto and niino, 2018). frequently used metrics are atmospheric static stability, moisture content, convective available potential energy (cape) and convective inhibition, wind shear or helicity, including storm relative environmental helicity (tochimoto and niino, 2018; elsner et al., 2019). these metrics, largely controlled by large scale atmospheric circulations or synoptic weather systems, such as tcs and etcs, are then generally used to examine severe convective systems. in particular, there is high confidence that cape in the tropics and the subtropics increases in response to global warming (m.s. singh et al., 2017), as supported by theoretical studies (singh and o’gorman, 2013; seeley and romps, 2015; romps, 2016; agard and emanuel, 2017). the uncertainty, however, arises from the balance between factors affecting severe storm occurrence. for example, the warming of mid tropospheric temperatures leads to an increase in the freezing level, which leads to increased melting of smaller hailstones, while there may be some offset by stronger updrafts driven by increasing cape, which would favour the growth of larger hailstones, leading to less melting when falling (allen, 2018; mahoney, 2020). there are few studies on relations between changes in severe convective storms and those of the large scale circulation patterns. tornado outbreaks in the usa are usually associated with etcs with their frontal systems and tcs (fuhrmann et al., 2014; tochimoto and niino, 2016). in early june to late july in east asia, associated with the baiu/changma/mei yu, severe precipitation events are frequently caused by mcss. severe precipitation events are also caused by remote effects of tcs, known as predecessor rain events (galarneau et al., 2010). atmospheric rivers and other coherent types of enhanced water vapour flux also have the potential to induce severe convective systems (kamae et al., 2017a; waliser and guan, 2017; ralph et al., 2018; see section 8.3.2.8.2). combined with the above drivers, topographic effects also enhance the intensity and duration of severe convective systems and the associated precipitation (ducrocq et al., 2008; piaget et al., 2015). however, the changes in these drivers are not generally significant, so their relations to severe convective storms are unclear. in summary, severe convective storms are sometimes embedded in synoptic scale weather systems, such as tcs, etcs and fronts, and modulated by large scale atmospheric circulation patterns. the occurrence of severe convective storms and the associated severe events, including tornadoes, hail, and lightning, is affected by environmental conditions of the atmosphere, such as cape and vertical shear. the uncertainty, however, arises from the balance between these environmental factors affecting severe storm occurrence. observed trends in severe convective storms or mcss are not well documented, but the climatology of mcss has been analysed in specific regions (north america, south america, europe, asia; regional aspects of convective storms are separately assessed in chapter 12). as the definition of severe convective storms varies depending on the literature, it is not straightforward to make a synthesizing view of observed trends in severe convective storms in different regions. however, analysis using satellite observations provides a global view of mcss (kossin et al., 2017). the global distribution of thunderstorms is captured (zipser et al., 2006; liu and zipser, 2015) by using the satellite precipitation measurements by the tropical rainfall measuring mission (trmm) and global precipitation mission (gpm) (hou et al., 2014). the climatological characteristics of mcss are provided by satellite analyses in south america (durkee and mote, 2010; rasmussen and houze, 2011; rehbein et al., 2018) and those of mccs in the maritime continent by trismidianto and satyawardhana (2018). analysis of the environmental conditions favourable for severe convective events indirectly indicates the climatology and trends of severe convective events (allen et al., 2018; taszarek et al., 2018, 2019), though favourable conditions depend on the location, such as the difference for tornadoes associated with etcs between the usa and japan (tochimoto and niino, 2018). observed trends in severe convective storms are highly regionally dependent. in the usa, it is indicated that there is no significant increase in convective storms, and hail and severe thunderstorms (kunkel et al., 2013; kossin et al., 2017). there is an upward trend in the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation events in the usa (high confidence) (kunkel et al., 2013; easterling et al., 2017), and mcss have increased in occurrence and precipitation amounts since 1979 (limited evidence) (feng et al., 2016). significant interannual variability of hailstone occurrences is found in the southern great plains of the usa (jeong et al., 2020). the mean annual number of tornadoes has remained relatively constant, but their variability of occurrence has increased since the 1970s,particularly over the 2000s, with a decrease in the number of days per year, but an increase in the number of tornadoes on these days (brooks et al., 2014; elsner et al., 2015, 2019; kossin et al., 2017; allen, 2018). there has been a shift in the distribution of tornadoes, with increases in the mid south of the usa and decreases over the high plains (gensini and brooks, 2018). trends in mcss are relatively more visible for particular aspects of mcss, such as lengthening of active seasons and dependency on duration. mcss have increased in occurrence and precipitation amounts since 1979 (easterling et al., 2017). feng et al. (2016) analysed that the observed increases in spring total and extreme rainfall in the central usa are dominated by mcss, with increased frequency and intensity of long lasting mcss. studies on trends in severe convective storms and their ingredients outside of the usa are limited. westra et al. (2014) found that there is an increase in the intensity of short duration convective events (minutes to hours) over many regions of the world, except eastern china. in europe, a climatology of tornadoes shows an increase in detected tornadoes between 1800 and 2014, but this trend might be affected by the density of observations (antonescu et al., 2016a, b). an increase in the trend in extreme daily rainfall is found in south eastern france, where mcss play a key role in this type of event (blanchet et al., 2018; ribes et al., 2019). trend analysis of the mean annual number of days with thunderstorms since 1979 in europe indicates an increase over the alps and central, south eastern, and eastern europe, with a decrease over the south west (taszarek et al., 2019). in the sahelian region, taylor et al. (2017) analysed mcss using satellite observations since 1982 and showed an increase in the frequency of extreme storms. in bangladesh, the annual number of propagating mcss decreased significantly during 1998 2015 based on trmm precipitation data (habib et al., 2019). prein and holland (2018) estimated the hail hazard from large scale environmental conditions using a statistical approach and showed increasing trends in the usa, europe, and australia. however, trends in hail on regional scales are difficult to validate because of an insufficient length of observations and inhomogeneous records (allen, 2018). the high spatial variability of hail suggests it is reasonable that there would be local signals of both positive and negative trends, and the trends that are occurring in hail globally are uncertain. in china, the total number of days that have either a thunderstorm or hail have decreased by about 50% from 1961 to 2010, and the reduction in these severe weather occurrences correlates strongly with the weakening of the east asian summer monsoon (q. zhang et al., 2017). more regional aspects of severe convective storms are detailed in chapter 12. in summary, because the definition of severe convective storms varies depending on the literature and the region, it is not straightforward to make a synthesizing view of observed trends in severe convective storms in different regions. in particular, observational trends in tornadoes, hail, and lightning associated with severe convective storms are not robustly detected due to insufficient coverage of the long term observations. there is medium confidence that the mean annual number of tornadoes in the usa has remained relatively constant, but their variability of occurrence has increased since the 1970s, particularly over the 2000s, with a decrease in the number of days per year, and an increase in the number of tornadoes on these days (high confidence). detected tornadoes have also increased in europe, but the trend depends on the density of observations. the explicit representation of severe convective storms requires non hydrostatic models with horizontal grid spacings finer than 4 km, denoted as convection permitting models or storm resolving models (section 10.3.1). convection permitting models are becoming available to run over a wide domain, such as a continental scale or even over the global area, and show realistic climatological characteristics of mcss (prein et al., 2015; guichard and couvreux, 2017; satoh et al., 2019). such high resolution simulations are computationally too expensive to perform at the larger domain and for long periods, and alternative methods by using an rcm with dynamical downscaling are generally used (section 10.3.1). convection permitting models are used as the flagship project of cordex to particularly study projections of thunderstorms (section 10.3.3). simulations of north american mcss by a convection permitting model conducted by prein et al. (2020) were able to capture the main characteristics of the observed mcss, such as their size, precipitation rate, propagation speed, and lifetime. cloud permitting model simulations in europe also showed sub daily precipitation realistically (ban et al., 2014; kendon et al., 2014). evaluation of precipitation conducted using convection permitting simulations around japan showed that finer resolution improves intense precipitation (murata et al., 2017). mcss over africa simulated using convection permitting models showed better extreme rainfall (kendon et al., 2019) and diurnal cycles and convective rainfall over land than the coarser resolution rcms or gcms (stratton et al., 2018; crook et al., 2019). the other modelling approach is the analysis of the environmental conditions that control characteristics of severe convective storms using the typical climate model results in cmip5/6 (allen, 2018). severe convective storms are generally formed in environments with large cape and tornadic storms are, in particular, formed with a combination of large cape and strong vertical wind shear. as the processes associated with severe convective storms occur over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales, some of which are poorly understood and are inadequately sampled by observational networks, the model calibration approaches are generally difficult and insufficiently validated. therefore, model simulations and their interpretations should be done with much caution. in summary, there are typically two kinds of modelling approaches for studying changes in severe convective storms. one is to use convection permitting models in wider regions or the global domain in time sliced downscaling methods to directly simulate severe convective storms. the other is the analysis of the environmental conditions that control characteristics of severe convective storms by using coarse resolution gcms. even in finer resolution convection permitting models, it is difficult to directly simulate tornadoes, hail storms, and lightning, so modelling studies of these changes are limited. it is extremely difficult to detect differences in time and space of severe convective storms (kunkel et al., 2013). although some ingredients that are favourable for severe thunderstorms have increased over the years, others have not; thus, overall, changes in the frequency of environments favourable for severe thunderstorms have not been statistically significant. event attribution studies on severe convective events have now been undertaken for some cases. for the case of the heavy rain event of july 2018 in japan (box 11.4), kawase et al. (2020) took a storyline approach to show that the rainfall during this event in japan was increased by approximately 7% due to recent rapid warming around japan. for the case of the december 2015 extreme rainfall event in chennai, india, the extremity of the event was equally caused by the warming trend in the bay of bengal ssts and the strong el niño conditions (van oldenborgh et al., 2016; boyaj et al., 2018). for hailstorms, such as those that caused disasters in the usa in 2018, detection of the role of climate change in changing hail storms is more difficult, because hail storms are not, in general, directly simulated by convection permitting models and not adequately represented by the environmental parameters of coarse resolution gcms (mahoney, 2020). in summary, it is extremely difficult to detect and attribute changes in severe convective storms. there is limited evidence that extreme precipitation associated with severe convective storms has increased in some cases. future projections of severe convective storms are usually studied either by analysing the environmental conditions simulated by climate models, or by a time slice approach with higher resolution convection permitting models by comparing simulations downscaled with climate model results under historical conditions and those under hypothesized future conditions (kendon et al., 2017; allen, 2018). up to now, individual studies using convection permitting models gave projections of extreme events associated with severe convective storms in local regions, and it is not generally possible to obtain global or general views of projected changes of severe convective storms. prein et al. (2017) investigated future projections of north american mcs simulations and showed an increase in mcs frequency and an increase in total mcs precipitation volume by the combined effect of increases in maximum precipitation rates associated with mcss and increases in their size. rasmussen et al. (2020) investigated future changes in the diurnal cycle of precipitation by capturing organized and propagating convection and showed that weak to moderate convection will decrease, and strong convection will increase in frequency in the future. ban et al. (2015) found that the day long and hour long precipitation events in summer intensify in the european region covering the alps. kendon et al. (2019) showed future increases in extreme three hourly precipitation in africa. murata et al. (2015) investigated future projections of precipitation around japan and showed a decrease in monthly mean precipitation in the eastern japan sea region in december, suggesting that convective clouds become shallower in the future in the winter over the japan sea. the other approach is the projection of the environmental conditions that control characteristics of severe convective storms by analysing climate model results. there is high confidence that cape, particularly summer mean cape and high percentiles of the cape in the tropics and subtropics, increases in response to global warming in an ensemble of climate models including those of cmip5, mainly from increased low level specific humidity (sobel and camargo, 2011; m.s. singh et al., 2017; j. chen et al., 2020a). convective inhibition becomes stronger over most land areas under global warming, resulting mainly from reduced low level relative humidity over land (j. chen et al., 2020a). however, there are large differences within the cmip5 ensemble for environmental conditions, which contribute to some degree of uncertainty (allen, 2018). because the relation between simulated environments in models and the occurrence of severe convective storms are, in general, insufficiently validated, there is generallylow confidence in the projection of severe convective storms with the approach of the environmental conditions. in the usa, projected changes in the environmental conditions show an increase in cape and no changes or decreases in the vertical wind shear, suggesting favourable conditions for an increase in severe convective storms in the future, but the interpretation of how tornadoes or hail will change is an open question because of the strong dependence on shear (brooks, 2013). diffenbaugh et al. (2013) showed robust increases in the occurrence of the favourable environments for severe convective storms with increased cape and stronger low level wind shear in response to future global warming. a downscaling approach showed that the variability of the occurrence of severe convective storms increases in spring in late 21st century simulations (gensini and mote, 2015). future changes in hail occurrence in the usa examined through convection permitting dynamical downscaling suggested that the hail season may begin earlier in the year and exhibit more interannual variability, with increases in the frequency of large hail in broad areas over the usa (trapp et al., 2019). there is medium confidence that the frequency and variability of the favourable environments for severe convective storms will increase in spring, and low confidence for summer and autumn (diffenbaugh et al., 2013; gensini and mote, 2015; hoogewind et al., 2017). the occurrence of hail events in colorado in the usa was examined by comparing both present day and projected future climates using high resolution model simulations capable of resolving hailstorms (mahoney et al., 2012), which showed that hail is almost eliminated at the surface in the future in most of the simulations, despite more intense future storms and significantly larger amounts of hail generated in cloud. future changes in severe convection environments show enhancement of instability with less robust changes in the frequency of strong vertical wind shear in europe (púčik et al., 2017) and in japan (muramatsu et al., 2016). in japan, the frequency of conditions favourable for strong tornadoes increases in spring, and partly in summer. in summary, the average and maximum rain rates associated with severe convective storms increase in a warming world in some regions, including the usa (high confidence). there is high confidence from climate models that cape increases in response to global warming in the tropics and subtropics, suggesting more favourable environments for severe convective storms. the frequency of severe convective storms in spring is projected to increase in the usa, leading to a lengthening of the severe convective storm season (medium confidence); evidence in other regions is limited. there is significant uncertainty about projected regional changes in tornadoes, hail, and lightning due to limited analysis of simulations using convection permitting models (high confidence). extreme winds are defined here in terms of the strongest near surface wind speeds that are generally associated with extreme storms, such as tcs, etcs, and severe convective storms. in previous ipcc reports, near surface wind speed (including extremes), has not been assessed as a variable in its own right, but rather in the context of other extreme atmospheric or oceanic phenomena. the exception was the srex report (seneviratne et al., 2012), which specifically examined past changes and projections of mean and extreme near surface wind speeds. a strong decline in extreme winds compared to mean winds was reported for the continental northern mid latitudes. due to the small number of studies and uncertainties in terrestrial based surface wind measurements, the findings were assigned low confidence in srex. the ar5 reported a weakening of mean and maximum winds from the 1960s or 1970s to the early 2000s in the tropics and mid latitudes, and increases in high latitudes, but with low confidence in changes in the observed surface winds over land (hartmann et al., 2013). observed trends in mean wind speed over land and the ocean are assessed in section 2.3.1.4.4. aspects of climate impact drivers for winds are addressed in sections 12.3.3 and 12.5.2, and their regional changes are assessed in section 12.4. observationally, although not specifically addressing extreme wind speed changes, negative surface wind speed trends (stilling) were found in the tropics and mid latitudes of both hemispheres of  0.014 m s 1yr 1, while positive trends were reported at high latitudes poleward of 70 degrees, based on a review of 148 studies (mcvicar et al., 2012b). an earlier study attributed the stilling to both changes in atmospheric circulation and an increase in surface roughness due to an overall increase in vegetation cover (vautard et al., 2010). since then, a number of studies have mostly confirmed these general negative mean wind trends based on anemometer data for spain (azorin molina et al., 2017), turkey, (dadaser celik and cengiz, 2014), the netherlands, (wever, 2012), saudi arabia, (rehman, 2013), romania, (marin et al., 2014), and china (chen et al., 2013). lin et al. (2013) note that wind speed variability over china is greater at high elevation locations compared to those closer to mean sea level. hande et al. (2012), using radiosonde data, found an increase in surface wind speed on macquarie island of australia. a number of new studies have examined surface wind speeds over the ocean using ship based measurements, satellite altimeters, and special sensor microwave/imagers (tokinaga and xie, 2011; zieger et al., 2014). it has been noted that wind speed trends tend to be stronger in altimeter measurements, although the spatial patterns of change are qualitatively similar in both instruments (zieger et al., 2014). q. liu et al. (2016) found positive trends in surface wind speeds over the arctic ocean in 20 years of satellite observations. small positive trends in mean wind speed were found in 33 years of satellite data, together with larger trends in the 90th percentile values over global oceans (ribal and young, 2019). these results were consistent with an earlier study that found a positive trend in 1 in 100 year wind speeds (young et al., 2012). a positive change in mean wind speeds was found for the arabian sea and the bay of bengal (shanas and kumar, 2015) and zheng et al. (2017) found that positive wind speed trends over the ocean were larger during winter seasons than summer seasons. changes in extreme winds are associated with changes in the characteristics (locations, frequencies, and intensities) of extreme storms, including tcs, etcs, and severe convective storms. for tcs, as assessed in section 11.7.1.5, it is projected that the average peak tc wind speeds will increase globally with warming, while the global frequency of tcs over all categories will decrease or remain unchanged; the average location where tcs reach their peak wind intensity will migrate poleward in the western north pacific ocean as the tropics expand with warming. frequency, intensities, and geographical distributions of extreme wind events associated with tcs will change according to these tc changes. for etcs, by the end of the century, cmip5 models show that the number of etcs associated with extreme winds will significantly decrease in the mid  and high latitudes of the northern hemisphere in winter, with the projected decrease being larger over the atlantic (kar man chang, 2018), while it will significantly increase irrespective of the season in the southern hemisphere (section 11.7.2.4; chang, 2017). over the ocean in the subtropics, a large ensemble of 60 km global model simulations indicated that extreme winds associated with storm surges will intensify over 15 35°n in the northern hemisphere (mori et al., 2019). however, extreme surface wind speeds will mostly decrease due to decreases in the number and intensity of tcs over most tropical areas of the southern hemisphere (mori et al., 2019). the projected changes in the frequency of extreme winds are associated with the future changes in tcs and etcs. extreme cyclonic windstorms that share some characteristics with both tcs and etcs occur regularly over the mediterranean sea and are often referred to as ‘medicanes’ (ragone et al., 2018; miglietta and rotunno, 2019; zhang et al., 2021). medicanes pose substantial threats to regional islands and coastal zones. a growing body of literature consistently found that the frequency of medicanes decreases under warming, while the strongest medicanes become stronger (gaertner et al., 2007; romero and emanuel, 2013, 2017; cavicchia et al., 2014; tous et al., 2016; romera et al., 2017; gonzález alemán et al., 2019). this is also consistent with expected global changes in tcs under warming (section 11.7.1). based on the consistency of these studies, it is likely that medicanes will decrease in frequency, while the strongest medicanes become stronger under warming scenario projections (medium confidence). in summary, the observed intensity of extreme winds is becoming less severe in the low to mid latitudes, while becoming more severe in high latitudes poleward of 60 degrees (low confidence). projected changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme winds are associated with projected changes in the frequency and intensity of tcs and etcs (medium confidence). the srex (srex chapter 3) first defined compound events as: (i) two or more extreme events occurring simultaneously or successively, (ii) combinations of extreme events with underlying conditions that amplify the impact of the events, or (iii) combinations of events that are not themselves extremes but lead to an extreme event or impact when combined. further definitions of compound events have emerged since srex. zscheischler et al. (2018) defined compound events broadly as ‘the combination of multiple drivers and/or hazards that contributes to societal or environmental risk’. this definition is used in the present assessment, because of its clear focus on the risk framework established by the ipcc, and also highlighting that compound events may not necessarily result from dependent drivers. compound events have been classified into: preconditioned events, where a weather driven or climate driven precondition aggravates the impacts of a climatic impact driver; multivariate events, where multiple drivers and/or climatic impact drivers lead to an impact; temporally compounding events, where a succession of hazards leads to an impact; and spatially compounding events, where hazards in multiple connected locations cause an aggregated impact (zscheischler et al., 2020). drivers include processes, variables, and phenomena in the climate and weather domain that may span over multiple spatial and temporal scales. hazards (such as floods, heatwaves, wildfires; also termed ´climatic impact drivers´ in this report, see chapter 12) are usually the immediate physical precursors to negative impacts, but can occasionally have positive outcomes (flach et al., 2018). the present assessment focuses on the physical dimension of changes in compound events, as it is part of the ipcc ar6 working group i report. the combination of two or more   not necessarily extreme   weather or climate events that occur: i) at the same time; ii) in close succession; or iii) concurrently in different regions, can lead to extreme impacts that are much larger than the sum of the impacts due to the occurrence of individual extremes alone. this is because multiple stressors can exceed the coping capacity of a system more quickly. the contributing events can be of similar types (clustered multiple events) or of different types (zscheischler et al., 2020). many major weather  and climate related catastrophes are inherently of a compound nature (zscheischler et al., 2019).this has been highlighted for a broad range of hazards, such as droughts, heatwaves, wildfires, coastal extremes, and floods (westra et al., 2016; aghakouchak et al., 2020; ridder et al., 2020). co occurring extreme precipitation and extreme winds can result in infrastructural damage (martius et al., 2016); the compounding of storm surge and precipitation extremes can cause coastal floods (wahl et al., 2015); the combination of drought and heat can lead to tree mortality (section 11.6; allen et al., 2015); and wildfires increase occurrences of hailstorms and lightning (y. zhang et al., 2019a). compound storm types consisting of co located cyclone, front and thunderstorm systems have a higher chance of causing extreme rainfall and extreme winds than individual storm types (dowdy and catto, 2017). extremes may occur at similar times at different locations (de luca et al., 2020a, b) but affect the same system, for instance, spatially concurrent climate extremes affecting crop yields and food prices (singh et al., 2018; anderson et al., 2019). studies also show an increasing likelihood for breadbasket regions to be concurrently affected by climate extremes with increasing global warming, even between 1.5°c and 2°c of global warming (box 11.2; gaupp et al., 2019). concomitant extreme conditions at different locations become more probable as changes in climate extremes are emerging over an increasing fraction of the land area (sections 11.2.3, 11.2.4, 11.8.2 and 11.8.3, and box 11.4). finally, impacts may occur because of large multivariate anomalies in the climate drivers, if systems are adapted to historical multivariate climate variability (flach et al., 2017). for instance, ecosystems are typically adapted to the local covariability of temperature and precipitation such that a bivariate anomaly may have a large impact, even though neither temperature nor precipitation may be extreme based on a univariate assessment (mahony and cannon, 2018). given that almost all systems are affected by weather and climate phenomena at multiple space time scales (raymond et al., 2020), it is natural to consider extremes in a compound event framework. it should be noted, however, that multi hazard dependencies can also decrease risk, for instance when hazards are negatively correlated (hillier et al., 2020). despite this recognition, the literature on past and future changes in compound events has been limited, but is growing. this section assesses examples of types of compound events in available literature. in summary, compound events include the combination of two or more   not necessarily extreme   weather or climate events that occur (i) at the same time, (ii) in close succession, or (iii) concurrently in different regions. the land area affected by concurrent extremes has increased (high confidence). concurrent extreme events at different locations, but possibly affecting similar sectors (e.g., breadbaskets) in different regions, will become more frequent with increasing global warming, in particular above +2°c of global warming (high confidence). coastal and estuarine zones are prone to a number of meteorological extreme events and also to concurrent extremes (see also section 6.8.2 in srocc). floods are a major climatic impact driver in coastal regions around the world (chapter 12), and flood occurrence may be influenced by the dependence between storm surge, extreme rainfall, and river flow, but also by sea level rise, waves and tides, as well as groundwater for estuaries. floods with multiple drivers are often referred to as ‘compound floods’ (wahl et al., 2015; moftakhari et al., 2017; bevacqua et al., 2020c). at usa coasts, the probability of co occurring storm surge and heavy precipitation is higher for the atlantic/gulf coast relative to the pacific coast (wahl et al., 2015). furthermore, six studied locations on the usa coast with long overlapping time series show an increase in the dependence between heavy precipitation and storm surge over the last century, leading to more frequent co occurring storm surge and heavy precipitation events at the present day (wahl et al., 2015). storm surge and extreme rainfall are also dependent in most locations on the australian coasts (zheng et al., 2013) and in europe along the dutch coasts (ridder et al., 2018), along the mediterranean sea, the atlantic coast and the north sea (bevacqua et al., 2019). the probability of flood occurrence can be assessed via the dependence between storm surge and river flow (bevacqua et al., 2020b, c). for instance, the occurrence of a north sea storm surge in close succession with an extreme rhine or meuse river discharge is much more probable due to their dependence, compared to if both events were independent (kew et al., 2013; klerk et al., 2015). significant dependence between high sea levels and high river discharge are found for more than half of the available station observations, which are mostly located around the coasts of north america, europe, australia, and japan (ward et al., 2018). combining global river discharge with a global storm surge model, hotspots of compound flooding have been discovered that are not well covered by observations in some regions, including madagascar, northern morocco, vietnam, and taiwan of china (couasnon et al., 2020). in the dutch noorderzijlvest area, there is more than a two fold increase in the frequency of exceeding the highest warning level compared to the case if storm surge and heavy precipitation were independent (van den hurk et al., 2015). in other regions and seasons, the dependence can be insignificant (w. wu et al., 2018) and there can be significant seasonal and regional differences in the storm surge heavy precipitation relationship. assessments of flood probabilities are often not based on actual flood measurements; instead, they are estimated from its main drivers, including astronomical tides, storm surge, heavy precipitation, and high streamflow. such single driver analyses might underestimate flood probabilities if multiple correlated drivers contribute to flood occurrence (e.g., van den hurk et al., 2015). many coastal areas are also prone to the occurrence of compound precipitation and wind extremes, which can cause damage, including to infrastructure and natural environments. a high percentage of co occurring wind and precipitation extremes are found in coastal regions and in areas with frequent tropical cyclones. finally, the combination of extreme wave height and duration is also shown to influence coastal erosion processes (corbella and stretch, 2012). aspects of concurrent extremes in coastal and estuarine environments have increased in frequency and/or magnitude over the last century in some regions. these include an increase in the dependence between heavy precipitation and storm surge over the last century, leading to more frequent co occurring storm surge and heavy precipitation events in the present day along usa coastlines (wahl et al., 2015). in europe, the probability of compound flooding occurrence increases most strongly along the atlantic coast and the north sea under strong warming. this increase is mostly driven by an intensification of precipitation extremes and aggravated flooding probability due to sea level rise (bevacqua et al., 2019). at the global scale and under a high emissions scenario, the concurrence probability of meteorological conditions driving compound flooding would increase by more than 25%, on average, along coastlines worldwide by 2100, compared to the present (bevacqua et al., 2020c). sea level extremes and their physical impacts in the coastal zone arise from a complex set of atmospheric, oceanic, and terrestrial processes that interact on a range of spatial and temporal scales and will be modified by a changing climate, including sea level rise (mcinnes et al., 2016). interactions between sea level rise and storm surges (little et al., 2015), and sea level and fluvial flooding (moftakhari et al., 2017) are projected to lead to more frequent and intense compound coastal flooding events as sea levels continue to rise. in summary, there is medium confidence that, over the last century, the probability of compound flooding has increased in some locations, including along the usa coastline. there is high confidence that the occurrence and magnitude of compound flooding in coastal regions will increase in the future due to both sea level rise and increases in heavy precipitation. concurrent droughts and heatwaves have a number of negative impacts on human society and natural ecosystems. studies since srex and ar5 show several occurrences of observed combinations of drought and heatwaves in various regions. over most land regions, temperature and precipitation are strongly negatively correlated during summer (zscheischler and seneviratne, 2017), mostly due to land atmosphere feedbacks (sections 11.1.6 and 11.3.2), but also because synoptic scale weather systems favourable for extreme heat are also unfavourable for rain (berg et al., 2015). this leads to a strong correlation between droughts and heatwaves (zscheischler and seneviratne, 2017). drought events characterized by low precipitation and extreme high temperatures have occurred, for example, in california (aghakouchak et al., 2014), inland eastern australia (king et al., 2014), and large parts of europe (orth et al., 2016a). the 2018 growing season was both record breaking dry and hot in germany (zscheischler and fischer, 2020). the probability of co occurring meteorological droughts and heatwaves has increased in the observational period in many regions and will continue to do so under unabated warming (herrera estrada and sheffield, 2017; zscheischler and seneviratne, 2017; hao et al., 2018; sarhadi et al., 2018; alizadeh et al., 2020; wu et al., 2021). overall, projections of increases in co occurring drought and heatwaves are reported in northern eurasia (schubert et al., 2014), europe (orth et al., 2016a; sedlmeier et al., 2018), south east australia (kirono et al., 2017), multiple regions of the usa (diffenbaugh et al., 2015; herrera estrada and sheffield, 2017), north west china (x. li et al., 2019; kong et al., 2020) and india (sharma and mujumdar, 2017). the dominant signal is related to the increase in heatwave occurrence, which has been attributed to anthropogenic forcing (section 11.3.4). this means that, even if drought occurrence is unaffected, compound hot and dry events will be more frequent (sarhadi et al., 2018; yu and zhai, 2020). drought and heatwaves are also associated with fire weather, related through high temperatures, low soil moisture, and low humidity. fire weather refers to weather conditions conducive to triggering and sustaining wildfires, which generally include temperature, soil moisture, humidity, and wind (chapter 12). concurrent hot and dry conditions amplify conditions that promote wildfires (schubert et al., 2014; littell et al., 2016; dowdy, 2018; hope et al., 2019). burnt area extent in western usa forests (abatzoglou and williams, 2016) and particularly in california (williams et al., 2019) has been linked to anthropogenic climate change via a significant increase in vapour pressure deficit, a primary driver of wildfires. a study of the western usa examined the correlation between historical water balance deficits and annual area burned, across a range of vegetation types, from temperate rainforest to desert (mckenzie and littell, 2017). the relationship between temperature and dryness, and wildfire, varied with ecosystem type, and the fire climate relationship was nonstationary and vegetation dependent. in many fire prone regions, such as the mediterranean and china’s daxing’anling region, projections for increased severity of future drought and heatwaves may lead to an increased frequency of wildfires relative to observed climatology (tian et al., 2017; ruffault et al., 2018). observations show a long term trend towards more dangerous weather conditions for bushfires in many regions of australia, which is attributable (at least in part) to anthropogenic climate change (dowdy, 2018). there is emerging evidence that recent regional surges in wildland fires are being driven by changing weather extremes (cross chapter box 3; jia et al., 2019; srccl chapter 2). between 1979 and 2013, the global burnable area affected by long fire weather seasons doubled, and the mean length of the fire weather season increased by 19% (jolly et al., 2015). however, at the global scale, the total burned area has been decreasing between 1998 and 2015 due to human activities mostly related to changes in land use (andela et al., 2017). given the projected high confidence increase in compound hot and dry conditions, there is high confidence that fire weather conditions will become more frequent at higher levels of global warming in some regions. this assessment is also consistent with chapter 12’s examination of regional projected changes in fire weather. the srccl (chapter 2) assessed with high confidence that future climate variability is expected to enhance the risk and severity of wildfires in many biomes such as tropical rainforests. in summary, there is high confidence that concurrent heatwaves and droughts have increased in frequency over the last century at the global scale due to human influence. there is medium confidence that weather conditions that promote wildfires (fire weather) have become more probable in southern europe, northern eurasia, the usa, and australia over the last century. there is high confidence that compound hot and dry conditions become more probable in nearly all land regions as global mean temperature increases. there is high confidence that fire weather conditions will become more frequent at higher levels of global warming in some regions. box 11.4 | case study: global scale concurrent climate anomalies   the 2015 2016 extreme el niño and 2018 boreal spring summer occurrence of concurrent or near concurrent extremes in different parts of a region, or in different locations around the world, challenges adaptation and risk management capacity. this can occur as a result of natural climate variability, as climates in different parts of the world are interconnected through large scale atmospheric oceanic teleconnections. in addition, in a warming climate, the probability of having several locations being affected simultaneously by, for example, hot extremes and heatwaves increases strongly as a function of global warming, with detectable changes even for changes as small as +0.5°c of additional global warming (sections 11.2.4 and 11.3, cross chapter box 11.1). recent articles have highlighted the risks associated with concurrent extremes over large spatial scales (e.g., lehner and stocker, 2015; boers et al., 2019; gaupp et al., 2019). there is evidence that such global scale extremes associated with hot temperature extremes are increasing in occurrence (sippel et al., 2015; vogel et al., 2019). hereafter, the focus is on two case studies of recent global scale events that featured concurrent extremes in several regions across the world. the first focuses on concurrent extremes driven by variability in tropical pacific sea surface temperatures (ssts) associated with the 2015 2016 extreme el niño, while the second addresses the impacts of global warming combined with abnormal atmospheric circulation patterns in the 2018 boreal spring/summer. box 11.4, figure 1 | | analysis of the percentage of land area affected by temperature extremes larger than two (blue) or three (orange) standard deviations in june july august (jja) between 30°n and 80°n using a normalization. this figure shows a substantial increase in the overall land area affected by very strong hot extremes since 1990. adapted from sippel et al. (2015). the extreme el niño in 2015 2016 el niño southern oscillation (enso) is one of the phenomena that have the ability to bring multitudes of extremes in different parts of the world, especially in extreme el niño (annex iv.2.3) cases. additionally, the background climate warming associated with greenhouse gas forcing can significantly exacerbate extremes in parts of the world, even under normal el niño conditions. the 2015 2016 extreme el niño event was one of the three extreme el niño events since the 1980s and the availability of satellite rainfall observations. according to some measures, it was the strongest el niño in the past 145 years (barnard et al., 2017). the 2015 2016 warmth was unprecedented at the central equatorial pacific (niño4: 5°n 5°s, 150°e 150°w), and this exceptional warmth was unlikely to have occurred entirely naturally, appearing to reflect an anthropogenically forced trend (newman et al., 2018). in particular, its signal was seen in very high monthly global mean surface temperature (gmst) values in late 2015 and early 2016, contributing to the highest record of gmst in 2016 (section 2.3.1.1). both the enso amplitude and the frequency of high magnitude events since 1950 is higher than over the pre industrial period (medium confidence) (section 2.4.2), suggesting that global extremes similar to those associated with the 2015 2016 extreme el niño would occur more frequently under further increases in global warming. a brief summary of extreme events that happened in 2015 2016 is provided in sections 6.2.2 and 6.5.1.1 of the special report on the ocean and cryosphere in a changing climate (srocc). we provide some highlights illustrating extremes that occurred in different parts of the world during the 2015 2016 extreme el niño in box 11.4, table 1, as well as in the short summary that follows. box 11.4, table 1 | list of events related to the 2015 2016 extreme el niño in the literature. region period events references indonesia july 2015 to june 2016 droughts, forest fire field et al. (2016); huijnen et al. (2016); patra et al. (2017); hartmann et al. (2018) northern australia between late 2015 and early 2016 high temperature and drought duke et al. (2017) amazon september 2015 to may 2016 droughts, forest fire jiménez muñoz et al. (2016); erfanian et al. (2017); aragão et al. (2018); panisset et al. (2018); ribeiro et al. (2018) the entirety of south america north of 20°s austral spring and 2015 2016 summer droughts erfanian et al. (2017) ethiopia february september 2015 droughts blunden and arndt (2016); philip et al. (2018b) southern africa november 2015 april 2016 droughts funk et al. (2016, 2018a); blamey et al. (2018); yuan et al. (2018a) europe boreal 2015 2016 winter effects on circulation patterns geng et al. (2017); scaife et al. (2017) india may 2016 high temperature van oldenborgh et al. (2018) india december 2015 extreme rainfall van oldenborgh et al. (2016); boyaj et al. (2018) china june july 2016 extreme rainfall sun and miao (2018); yuan et al. (2018b); zhou et al. (2018) western north pacific boreal summer 2015 the large number (13) of category 4 and 5 tropical cyclones blunden and arndt (2016); b. mueller et al. (2016); w. zhang et al. (2016a) ; hong et al., (2018); yamada et al. (2019) eastern north pacific boreal summer 2015 a record breaking number of tropical cyclones collins et al. (2016); murakami et al. (2017b) global 2015 2016 el niño high co2 release to the atmosphere associated with droughts and fires in several affected regions humphrey et al. (2018); brando et al. (2019) several regions were strongly affected by droughts in 2015, including indonesia, australia, the amazon region, ethiopia, southern africa, and europe. as a result, global measurements of land water anomalies were particularly low in that year (humphrey et al., 2018). in 2015, indonesia experienced a severe drought and forest fire, causing pronounced impact on economy, ecology and human health due to haze crisis(fieldet al. , 2016; huijnenet al. , 2016; patraet al. , 2017; hartmannet al. , 2018). the northern part of australia experienced high temperatures and low precipitation between late 2015 and early 2016, and the extensive mangrove trees were damaged along the gulf of carpentaria in northern australia (duke et al., 2017). the amazon region experienced the most intense droughts of this century in 2015 2016. this drought was more severe than the previous major droughts that occurred in the amazon in 2005 and 2010 (lewis et al., 2011; erfanian et al., 2017; panisset et al., 2018). the 2015 2016 amazon drought impacted the entirety of south america north of 20°s during the austral spring and summer (erfanian et al., 2017). it also increased forest fire incidence by 36% compared to the preceding 12 years (aragão et al., 2018) and, as a consequence, increased the biomass burning outbreaks and the carbon monoxide (co) concentration in the area, affecting air quality (ribeiro et al., 2018). this out of season drought affected the water availability for human consumption and agricultural irrigation. it also left rivers with very low water levels and large sandbanks, preventing ship transportation of food, medicines, and fuels (inmet, 2017). eastern african countries were impacted by drought in 2015. the drought in ethiopia was the worst in several decades and was associated with the 2015 2016 extreme el niño (blunden and arndt, 2016; philip et al., 2018b). it was suggested that anthropogenic warming contributed to the 2015 ethiopian and southern african droughts by increasing ssts and local air temperatures (funk et al., 2016, 2018b; yuan et al., 2018a). it has also been suggested that the 2015 2016 extreme el niño affected circulation patterns in europe during the 2015 2016 winter (geng et al., 2017; scaife et al., 2017). the atmospheric co2 growth rate was particularly high in 2015, possibly related to some of the mentioned droughts, in particular in indonesia and the amazon region, leading to higher co2 release in combination with less co2 uptake from land areas (humphrey et al., 2018). the impact of the 2015 2016 extreme el niño on vegetation systems via drought was also shown from satellite data (kogan and guo, 2017). overall, tropical forests were a carbon source to the atmosphere during the 2015 2016 el niño related drought, with some estimates suggesting that up to 2.3 pgc were released (brando et al., 2019). the 2015 2016 extreme el niño has induced extreme precipitation in some regions. severe rainfall events were observed in chennai city in india in devember 2015, and the yangtze river region in china in june july 2016, and it was shown that these rainfall events are partly attributed to the 2015 2016 extreme el niño(van oldenborghet al. , 2016; boyajet al. , 2018; sun and miao, 2018; yuanet al. , 2018b; zhouet al., 2018). in 2015, tropical cyclone activity was notably high in the north pacific (blunden and arndt, 2016). over the western north pacific, there were 13 category 4 and 5 tropical cyclones (tcs), more than twice the area’s typical annual value of 6.3 (w. zhang et al., 2016b). similarly, a record breaking number of tcs were observed in the eastern north pacific, particularly in the western part of that domain (collins et al., 2016; murakami et al., 2017b). these extraordinary tc activities were related to the average sst anomaly during that year, which were associated with the 2015 2016 extreme el niño and the positive phase of the pacific meridional mode (murakami et al., 2017b; hong et al., 2018; yamada et al., 2019). however, it has been suggested that the intense tc activities in both the western and the eastern north pacific in 2015 were not only due to the el niño, but also to a contribution of anthropogenic forcing (murakami et al., 2017b; s. h. yang et al., 2018). the impact of the indian ocean sst was also suggested to contribute to the extreme tc activity in the western north pacific in 2015 (zhan et al., 2018). in contrast, in australia, it was the least active tc season since satellite records began in 1969 1970 (blunden and arndt, 2017). global scale temperature extremes and concurrent precipitation extremes in boreal 2018 spring and summer in the 2018 boreal spring summer season (may august), wide areas of the mid latitudes in the northern hemisphere experienced heat extremes and (in part) enhanced drought(box 11.4, figure 2; kornhuberet al. , 2019; vogelet al. , 2019). the reported impacts included(vogel et al., 2019): 90 deaths from heat strokes in quebec (canada); 1469 deaths from heat strokes in japan (shimpo et al., 2019); 48 heat related deaths in the republic of korea (min et al., 2020); heat warnings affecting 90,000 students in the usa; fires in numerous countries (canada (british columbia), usa (california), finland (lapland), latvia); crop losses in the uk, germany and switzerland (vogel et al., 2019) and overall in central and northern europe (leading to yield reductions of up to 50% for the main crops (toreti et al., 2019); fish deaths in switzerland; and melting of roads in the netherlands and the uk, among others. in addition to the numerous hot and dry extremes, an extremely heavy rainfall event occurred over wide areas of japan from 28 june to 8 july 2018 (tsuguti et al., 2018), which was followed by a heatwave (shimpo et al., 2019). the heavy precipitation event caused more than 230 deaths in japan, and was named ‘the heavy rain event of july 2018’. the heavy precipitation event was characterized by unusually widespread and persistent rainfall and locally anomalous total precipitation led by band shaped precipitation systems, which are frequently associated with heavy precipitation events in east asia (section 11.7.3; kato, 2020). the extreme rainfall in japan was caused by anomalous moisture transport with a combination of abnormal jet condition (takemi and unuma, 2019; takemura et al., 2019; tsuji et al., 2020; yokoyama et al., 2020), which can be viewed as an atmospheric river (sections 8.2.2.8 and 11.7.2; yatagai et al., 2019) caused by intensified inflow velocity and high sst around japan (sekizawa et al., 2019; kawase et al., 2020). this precipitation event and the subsequent heatwave are related to abnormal condition of the jet stream and north pacific subtropical high in this month (shimpo et al., 2019; ren et al., 2020), which caused extreme conditions from europe, eurasia, and north america (box 11.4, figure 2; kornhuber et al., 2019). a combination of the positive anomaly of the north atlantic oscillation (nao, annex iv.2.1) and the meandering jets is necessary to explain the pattern of the observed anomalies (drouard et al. , 2019). a role of atlantic sst anomaly on the meandering jets and the subtropical high have been suggested (b. liu et al., 2019). these dynamic and thermodynamic components generally have substantial influence on extreme rainfall in east asia (oh et al., 2018), but it is under investigation whether these factors were due to anthropogenic forcing. regarding the hot extremes that occurred across the northern hemisphere in the 2018 boreal may july period, vogel et al. (2019) found that the event was unprecedented in terms of the total area affected by hot extremes (on average, about 22% of populated and agricultural areas in the northern hemisphere) for that period, but was consistent with a +1°c climate which was the estimated global mean temperature anomaly around that time (for 2017; sr1.5). this study also found that events similar to the 2018 may july temperature extremes would approximately occur two out of three years under +1.5°c of global warming, and every year under +2°c of global warming. imada et al. (2019) also suggest that the mean annual occurrence of extreme hot days in japan will be expected to increase by 1.8 times under a global warming level of 2°c above pre industrial levels. kawase et al. (2020) showed that the extreme rainfall in japan during this event was increased by approximately 7% due to recent rapid warming around japan. imada et al. (2020) showed that the probability of the heavy rain event of july 2018 in japan was increased from 0.22% to 2.00% due to anthropogenic warming. hence, it is virtually certain that these 2018 concurrent events would not have occurred without human induced global warming. concurrent events of this type are also projected to happen more frequently under higher levels of global warming. however, there is currentlylow confidence in projected changes in the frequency or strength of the anomalous circulation patterns leading to concurrent extremes (e.g., cross chapter box 10.1). box 11.4, figure 2 | meteorological conditions in july 2018. the colour shading shows the monthly mean near surface air temperature anomaly with respect to 1981 2010. contour lines indicate the geopotential height in m, highlighted are the isolines on 12,000 m and 12,300 m, which indicate the approximate positions of the polar front jet and subtropical jet, respectively. the light blue green ellipse shows the approximate extent of the strong precipitation event that occurred at the beginning of july in the region of japan and korea. all data is from the global european centre for medium range weather forecasts (ecmwf) reanalysis v5 (era5, hersbach et al., 2020). the case studies presented in this box illustrate the current state of knowledge regarding the contribution of human induced climate change to recent concurrent extremes in the global domain. recent years have seen a more frequent occurrence of such events. the heatwave in europe in the 2019 boreal summer and its coverage in the global domain is an additional example (vautard et al., 2020). however, very few studies investigate which types of concurrent extreme events could occur under increasing global warming. it has been noted that such events could also be of particular risk for concurrent impacts in the world’s breadbaskets (zampieri et al., 2017; kornhuber et al., 2020; see also section 11.8.1). in summary, the 2015 2016 extreme el niño and the 2018 boreal spring/summer extremes were two examples of recent concurrent extremes. the el niño event in 2015 2016 was one of the three extreme el niño events since the 1980s, and there are many extreme events concurrently observed in this period including droughts, heavy precipitation, and more frequent intense tropical cyclones. both the enso amplitude and the frequency of high magnitude events since 1950 is higher than over the pre industrial period (medium confidence), suggesting that global extremes similar to those associated with the 2015 2016 extreme el niño would occur more frequently under further increases in global warming. the 2018 boreal spring/summer extremes were characterized by heat extremes and enhanced droughts in wide areas of the mid latitudes in the northern hemisphere and extremely heavy rainfall in east asia. these concurrent events were generally related to the abnormal condition of the jet and north pacific subtropical high, but also amplified by background global warming. it is virtually certain that these 2018 concurrent extreme events would not have occurred without human induced global warming. recent years have seen a more frequent occurrence of such concurrent events. however, it is still unknown which types of concurrent extreme events could occur under increasing global warming. this section complements the assessments of changes in temperature extremes (section 11.3), heavy precipitation (section 11.4), and droughts (section 11.6), by providing additional regional details. regional changes in floods are assessed in chapter 12. owing to the large number of regions and space limitations, the regional assessment for each of the ar6 reference regions (see section 1.5.2.2 for a description) is presented here in a set of tables. the tables are organized according to types of extremes (temperature, heavy precipitation, droughts) for africa (tables 11.4 11.6), asia (tables 11.7 11.9), australasia (tables 11.10 11.12), central and south america (tables 11.13 11.15), europe (tables 11.16 11.18), and north america (tables 11.19 11.21). each table contains regional assessments for observed changes, the human contribution to the observed changes, and projections of changes in these extremes at 1.5°c, 2°c and 4°c of global warming. a synthesis of regional changes in hot extremes, heavy precipitation, agricultural and ecological droughts, and hydrological droughts can be found in the chapter 11 appendix in table 11.a.2. sections 11.9.2, 11.9.3 and 11.9.4 provide brief summaries of the underlying evidence used to derive the regional assessments for temperature extremes, heavy precipitation events, and droughts, respectively. the assessments take into account evidence from studies based on global datasets (global studies), as well as regional studies. global studies include analyses for all continents and ar6 regions with sufficient data coverage, and provide an important basis for cross region consistency, as the same data and methods are used for all regions. however, individual regional studies may include additional information that is missed in global studies, and thus provide an important regional calibration for the assessment. the assessments are presented using the calibrated confidence and likelihood language (box 1.1). low confidence is assessed when there is limited evidence, either because of a lack of available data in the region and/or a lack of relevant studies. low confidence is also assessed when there is a lack of agreement on the evidence of a change, which may be due to large variability or inconsistent changes depending on the considered sub regions, time frame, models, assessed metrics, or studies. in cases when the evidence is strongly contradictory, for example, with substantial regional changes of opposite sign, ‘mixed signal’ is indicated. with an assessment of low confidence, the direction of change is not indicated in the tables. a direction of change (increase or decrease) is provided with an assessment of medium confidence, high confidence, likely , or higher likelihood levels. likelihood assessments are only provided in the case of high confidence. in some cases, there may be confidence in a small or no change. for projections, changes are assessed at three global warming levels (gwls; cross chapter box 11.1): 1.5°c, 2°c and 4°c. the assessments use literature based both on gwl projections and scenario based projections. in the case of literature on scenario based projections, a mapping between scenarios/time frames and gwls was performed, as documented in cross chapter box 11.1. projections of changes in temperature and precipitation extremes are assessed relative to two different baselines: the recent past (1995 2014) and pre industrial (1850 1900). with smaller changes relative to the variability, in particular because droughts happen on longer timescales compared to extremes of daily temperature and precipitation, it is more difficult to distinguish changes in drought relative to the recent past. as such, changes in droughts are assessed relative to the pre industrial baseline, unless indicated otherwise. tables 11.4, 11.7, 11.10, 11.13, 11.16, and 11.19 include assessments for past temperature extremes and their attribution, as well as future projections. the evidence is mostly drawn from changes in metrics based on daily maximum and minimum temperatures, similar to those used in section 11.3. the regional assessments start from global studies that used consistent analyses for all regions globally with sufficient data. this includes dunn et al. (2020) for observed changes, and li et al. (2021) and the chapter 11 supplementary material (11.sm) for projections with the cmip6 multi model ensemble. evidence from regional studies, and those based on the cmip5 multi model ensemble or cordex simulations, are then used to refine the confidence assessments. for attribution, seong et al. (2020) provide a consistent analysis for ar6 regions, and z. wang et al. (2017a) for srex regions. additional regional studies, including event attribution analyses (section 11.2), are used when available. in some regions that were not analysed in seong et al. (2020), and those with no known event attribution studies, medium confidence of a human contribution is assessed: when there is strong evidence of changes from observations that are in the direction of model projected changes for the future; when the magnitude of projected changes increases with global warming; and where there is no other evidence to the contrary. this assessment is further supported by an understanding of how temperature extremes change with the mean temperature and overwhelming evidence of a human contribution to the observed larger scale changes in the mean temperature and temperature extremes. tables 11.5, 11.8, 11.11, 11.14, 11.17, and 11.20 include assessments for past changes in heavy precipitation events and their attribution, as well as future projections. the evidence is mostly drawn from changes in metrics based on one day or five day precipitation amounts, as addressed in section 11.4. similar to temperature extremes, the assessment of changes in heavy precipitation uses global studies, including dunn et al. (2020) and sun et al. (2021) for observed changes, and li et al. (2021) and the chapter 11 supplementary material (11.sm) for projected changes using the cmip6 multi model ensemble. for attribution, paik et al. (2020) provided continental analyses where data coverage was sufficient, but no attribution studies based on global data are available for the regional scale. for each region, regional studies, and studies based on the cmip5 multi model ensemble or cordex simulations, are also considered in the assessments for past changes, attribution, and projections. tables 11.6, 11.9, 11.12, 11.15, 11.18, and 11.21 provide regional assessments on past, attributed and projected changes in droughts. the assessment is subdivided in three drought categories corresponding to four drought types: i) meteorological droughts, ii) agricultural and ecological droughts, and iii) hydrological droughts (see section 11.6). a list of metrics and global studies used for the assessments is provided below. the evidence from global studies is complemented in each continent with evidence from regional studies. an overview of studies considered for the assessments in projections is provided in table 11.3. meteorological droughts are assessed based on observed and projected changes in precipitation only metrics such as the standardized precipitation index (spi) and consecutive dry days (cdd). observed changes are assessed based on two global studies, dunn et al. (2020) for cdd, and spinoni et al. (2019) for spi. for projections, evidence for changes at 1.5°c and 2°c of global warming is drawn from l. xu et al. (2019) and touma et al. (2015) (based on rcp8.5 for 2010 2054 compared to 1961 2005) for spi (cmip5) and the chapter 11 supplementary material (11.sm) for cdd (cmip6). for projections at 4°c of global warming, evidence is drawn from several sources, including touma et al. (2015) and spinoni et al. (2020) for spi (from cmip5 and cordex, respectively), and 11.sm for cdd (cmip6). no global scale studies are available for the attribution of meteorological drought, so this assessment is based on regional detection and attribution or event attribution studies. agricultural and ecological droughts are primarily assessed based on observed and projected changes in total column soil moisture, complemented by evidence on changes in surface soil moisture, water balance (precipitation minus evapotranspiration (et)) and metrics driven by precipitation and atmospheric evaporative demand (aed) such as the spei and pdsi (section 11.6). in the latter, only studies including estimates based on the penman monteith equation (spei pm and pdsi pm) are considered because of biases associated with temperature only approaches (section 11.6). medium to high confidence in drying was assigned in the assessment for arid regions if a signal was also identifiable in total soil moisture in addition to surface soil moisture or metrics that combine aed and precipitation, which tend to dry more in these regions. for observed changes, evidence is drawn from several sources: padrón et al. (2020) for changes in precipitation minus et, as well as soil moisture from the multi model land surface snow and soil moisture model intercomparison project within cmip6 (11.sm; van den hurk et al., 2016); greve et al. (2014) for changes in precipitation minus et, and precipitation minus aed; spinoni et al. (2019) for changes in spei pm; and dai and zhao (2017) for changes in pdsi pm. reference model dataa indexa drought type projection horizons baseline 11.sm cmip6 cdd, soil moisture (total, surface) met 1.5°c, 2°c, 4°c 1850 1900 cook et al. (2020) cmip6 soil moisture (total, surface), runoff (total, surface) agr/ecol, hydr 2071 2011, ssp1 2.6 (about 2°c, cross chapter box 11.1; table 4.2) 2071 2011, ssp3 7 3 (about 4°c, cross chapter box 11.1; table 4.2) 1850 1900 l. xu et al. (2019) cmip5 spi, soil moisture (total, surface) met, agr/ecol 1.5°c, 2°c 1971 2000 touma et al. (2015) cmip5 spi, sri met, hydr 2010 2054, rcp8.5 (about 1.5°c; cross chapter box 11.1 and 11.sm.1) 2055 2099, rcp8.5 (about 3.5°c, cross chapter box 11.1 and 11.sm.1) 1961 2005 spinoni et al. (2020) cordex (cmip5 driving gcms, rcms) spi met 2071 2100, rcp4.5 (about 2.5°c, cross chapter box 11.1 and 11.sm.1) 2071 2100, rcp8.5 (about 4.5°c, cross chapter box 11.1 and 11.sm.1) 1981 2010 naumann et al. (2018) one gcm (ec earth3 hr v3.1) driven with sst fields from seven cmip5 gcms spei pm agr/ecol 1.5°c, 2°c, (3°c) 0.6°c vicente serrano et al. (2020c) cmip5 spei pm agr/ecol 2070 2100, rcp8.5 (about 4.5°c, cross chapter box 11.1 and 11.sm.1) 1970 2000 giuntoli et al. (2015) isi mip (six ghms and five cmip5 gcms) low flows days hydr 2066 2099, rcp8 5 (about 4°c, cross chapter box 11.1 and 11.sm.1) 1972 2005 j. zhai et al. (2020) one ghm (vic) driven by four cmip5 gcms extreme low runoff hydr 1.5°c, 2°c 2006 2015 acmip5 and cmip6: coupled model intercomparison project phases 5/6; cordex: coordinated regional downscaling experiment; gcms: global climate models; rcms: regional climate models; sst: sea surface temperatures; isi mip: inter sectoral impact model intercomparison project; ghms: global hydrological models; cdd: consecutive dry days index; spi: standardized precipitation index; sri: standardized runoff index; spei pm: penman monteith based standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index. for projections at 1.5°c of global warming, evidence is drawn from: l. xu et al. (2019), based on cmip5; 11.sm based on cmip6 for changes in total column and surface soil moisture; and from naumann et al. (2018) for changes in spei pm, based on ec earth simulations driven with ssts from seven cmip5 earth system models. for projections at 2°c of global warming, evidence is drawn from l. xu et al. (2019) based on cmip5, and cook et al. (2020) (ssp1 2.6, 2071 2100 compared to pre industrial) and the chapter 11 supplementary material (11.sm) based on cmip6, for changes in total column and surface soil moisture; evidence is also drawn from naumann et al. (2018) for changes in spei pm. for projections at 4°c of global warming, evidence is mostly drawn from: cook et al. (2020) (ssp3 7.0, 2071 2100) and the chapter 11 supplementary material (11.sm) based on cmip6 for changes in total column and surface soil moisture; and from vicente serrano et al. (2020c) for changes in spei pm based on cmip5. no global scale studies with regional scale information are available for the attribution of agricultural and ecological droughts, so this assessment is based on regional detection and attribution or event attribution studies. hydrological droughts are assessed based on observed and projected changes in low flows, complemented by information on changes in mean runoff. for observed changes, evidence is drawn from three studies (dai and zhao, 2017; gudmundsson et al., 2019, 2021). for projected changes at 1.5°c of global warming, evidence is drawn from touma et al. (2015) based on analyses of the standardized runoff index (sri) (cmip5, based on 2010 2054 compared to 1961 2005), complemented with regional studies when available. for projected changes at 2°c of global warming, evidence is also drawn from cook et al. (2020) for changes in runoff in cmip6 (scenario ssp1 2.6, 2071 2100), and from j. zhai et al. (2020) for changes in low flows based on simulations with a single model. for projected changes at 4°c of global warming, evidence is drawn from: touma et al. (2015) based on cmip5 analyses of sri; cook et al. (2020) for changes in surface and total runoff based on cmip6; and giuntoli et al. (2015) for changes in low flows based on the inter sectoral impact model intercomparison project (isi mip) based on six global hydrological models (ghms) and five gcms, including an analysis of inter model signal to noise ratio. one global scale study with regional scale information is available for the attribution of hydrological droughts (gudmundsson et al., 2021), but only in a few ar6 regions. this information was complemented with evidence from regional detection and attribution, and event attribution studies when available. alexis berg, tim brodribb, jamie hannaford, nate mcdowell, jack scheff, peter stott, lena tallaksen, peter thorne, francis zwiers. human caused climate change alters the frequency and intensity of climate variables (e.g., surface temperature) and phenomena (e.g., tropical cyclones) in a variety of ways. we now know that the ways in which average and extreme conditions have changed (and will continue to change) depend on the variable and the phenomenon being considered. changes in local surface temperature extremes closely follow the corresponding changes in local average surface temperatures. on the contrary, changes in precipitation extremes (heavy precipitation) generally do not follow those in average precipitation, and can even move in the opposite direction (e.g., with average precipitation decreasing but extreme precipitation increasing). climate change will manifest very differently depending on which region, season and variable we are interested in. for example, over some parts of the arctic, temperatures will warm at rates about three to four times higher during winter compared to summer months. and in summer, most of northern europe will experience larger temperatures increases than most places in south east south america and australasia, with differences that can be larger than 1°c, depending on the level of global warming. in general, differences across regions and seasons arise because the underlying physical processes differ drastically across regions and seasons. climate change will also manifest differently for different weather regimes and can lead to contrasting changes in average and extreme conditions. observations of the recent past and climate model projections show that, in most places, changes in daily temperatures are dominated by a general warming where the climatological average and extreme values are shifted towards higher temperatures, making warm extremes more frequent and cold extremes less frequent. the top panels in faq 11.1, figure 1 show projected changes in surface temperature for long term average conditions (left) and for extreme hot days (right) during the warm season (summer in mid  to high latitudes). projected increases in long term average temperature differ substantially between different places, varying from less than 3°c in some places in central south asia and southern south america to over 7°c in some places in north america, north africa and the middle east. changes in extreme hot days follow changes in average conditions quite closely, although, in some places, the warming rates for extremes can be intensified (e.g., southern europe and the amazon basin) or weakened (e.g., northern asia and greenland) compared to average values. recent observations and global and regional climate model projections point to changes in precipitation extremes (including both rainfall and snowfall extremes) differing drastically from those in average precipitation. the bottom panels in faq 11.1, figure 1 show projected changes in the long term average precipitation (left) and in heavy precipitation (right). averaged precipitation changes show striking regional differences, with substantial drying in places such as southern europe and northern south america and wetting in places such as the middle east and southern south america. changes in extreme precipitation are much more uniform, with systematic increases over nearly all land regions. the physical reasons behind the different responses of averaged and extreme precipitation are now well understood. the intensification of extreme precipitation is driven by the increase in atmospheric water vapour (about 7% per 1°c of warming near the surface), although this is modulated by various dynamical changes. in contrast, changes in average precipitation are driven not only by moisture increases but also by slower processes that constrain future changes over the globe to only 2 3% per 1°c of warming near the surface. in summary, the specific relationship between changes in average and extreme conditions strongly depends on the variable or phenomenon being considered. at the local scale, average and extreme surface temperature changes are strongly related, while average and extreme precipitation changes are often weakly related. for both variables, the changes in average and extreme conditions vary strongly across different places due to the effect of local and regional processes. faq 11.1, figure 1 | global maps of future changes in surface temperature (top panels) and precipitation (bottom panels) for long term average (left) and extreme conditions (right). all changes were estimated using the coupled model intercomparison project phase 6 (cmip6) ensemble median for a scenario with a global warming of 4°c relative to 1850 1900 temperatures. average surface temperatures refer to the warmest three month season (summer in mid  to high latitudes) and extreme temperatures refer to the hottest day in a year. precipitation changes, which can include both rainfall and snowfall changes, are normalized by 1850 1900 values and shown as a percentage; extreme precipitation refers to the largest daily precipitation in a year. climate change has already increased the magnitude and frequency of extreme hot events and decreased the magnitude and frequency of extreme cold events, and, in some regions, intensified extreme precipitation events. as the climate moves away from its past and current states, we will experience extreme events that are unprecedented, either in magnitude, frequency, timing or location. the frequency of these unprecedented extreme events will rise with increasing global warming. additionally, the combined occurrence of multiple unprecedented extremes may result in large and unprecedented impacts. human induced climate change has already affected many aspects of the climate system. in addition to the increase in global surface temperature, many types of weather and climate extremes have changed. in most regions, the frequency and intensity of hot extremes have increased and those of cold extremes have decreased. the frequency and intensity of heavy precipitation events have increased at the global scale and over a majority of land regions. although extreme events such as land and marine heatwaves, heavy precipitation, drought, tropical cyclones, and associated wildfires and coastal flooding have occurred in the past and will continue to occur in the future, they often come with different magnitudes or frequencies in a warmer world. for example, future heatwaves will last longer and have higher temperatures, and future extreme precipitation events will be more intense in several regions. certain extremes, such as extreme cold, will be less intense and less frequent with increasing warming. unprecedented extremes   that is, events not experienced in the past   will occur in the future in five different ways (faq 11.2, figure 1). first, events that are considered to be extreme in the current climate will occur in the future with unprecedented magnitudes. second, future extreme events will also occur with unprecedented frequency. third, certain types of extremes may occur in regions that have not previously encountered those types of events. for example, as the sea level rises, coastal flooding may occur in new locations, and wildfires are already occurring in areas, such as parts of the arctic, where the probability of such events was previously low. fourth, extreme events may also be unprecedented in their timing. for example, extremely hot temperatures may occur either earlier or later in the year than they have in the past. faq 11.2, figure 1 | new types of unprecedented extremes that will occur as a result of climate change. finally, compound events   where multiple extreme events of either different or similar types occur simultaneously and/or in succession   may be more probable or severe in the future. these compound events can often impact ecosystems and societies more strongly than when such events occur in isolation. for example, a drought along with extreme heat will increase the risk of wildfires and agriculture damages or losses. as individual extreme events become more severe as a result of climate change, the combined occurrence of these events will create unprecedented compound events. this could exacerbate the intensity and associated impacts of these extreme events. unprecedented extremes have already occurred in recent years, relative to the 20th century climate. some recent extreme hot events would have had very little chance of occurring without human influence on the climate (see faq 11.3). in the future, unprecedented extremes will occur as the climate continues to warm. those extremes will happen with larger magnitudes and at higher frequencies than previously experienced. extreme events may also appear in new locations, at new times of the year, or as unprecedented compound events. moreover, unprecedented events will become more frequent with higher levels of warming, for example at 3°c of global warming compared to 2°c of global warming. while it is difficult to identify the exact causes of a particular extreme event, the relatively new science of event attribution is able to quantify the role of climate change in altering the probability and magnitude of some types of weather and climate extremes. there is strong evidence that characteristics of many individual extreme events have already changed because of human driven changes to the climate system. some types of highly impactful extreme weather events have occurred more often and have become more severe due to these human influences. as the climate continues to warm, the observed changes in the probability and/or magnitude of some extreme weather events will continue as the human influences on these events increase. it is common to question whether human caused climate change caused a major weather  and climate related disaster. when extreme weather and climate events do occur, both exposure and vulnerability play an important role in determining the magnitude and impacts of the resulting disaster. as such, it is difficult to attribute a specific disaster directly to climate change. however, the relatively new science of event attribution enables scientists to attribute aspects of specific extreme weather and climate events to certain causes. scientists cannot answer directly whether a particular event was caused by climate change, as extremes do occur naturally, and any specific weather and climate event is the result of a complex mix of human and natural factors. instead, scientists quantify the relative importance of human and natural influences on the magnitude and/or probability of specific extreme weather events. such information is important for disaster risk reduction planning, because improved knowledge about changes in the probability and magnitude of relevant extreme events enables better quantification of disaster risks. on a case by case basis, scientists can now quantify the contribution of human influences to the magnitude and probability of many extreme events. this is done by estimating and comparing the probability or magnitude of the same type of event between the current climate   including the increases in greenhouse gas concentrations and other human influences   and an alternate world where the atmospheric greenhouse gases remained at pre industrial levels. faq 11.3 figure 1 illustrates this approach using differences in temperature and probability between the two scenarios as an example. both the pre industrial (blue) and current (red) climates experience hot extremes, but with different probabilities and magnitudes. hot extremes of a given temperature have a higher probability of occurrence in the warmer current climate than in the cooler pre industrial climate. additionally, an extreme hot event of a particular probability will be warmer in the current climate than in the pre industrial climate. climate model simulations are often used to estimate the occurrence of a specific event in both climates. the change in the magnitude and/or probability of the extreme event in the current climate compared to the pre industrial climate is attributed to the difference between the two scenarios, which is the human influence. faq 11.3, figure 1 | changes in climate result in changes in the magnitude and probability of extremes. example of how temperature extremes differ between a climate with pre industrial greenhouse gases (shown in blue) and the current climate (shown in orange) for a representative region. the horizontal axis shows the range of extreme temperatures, while the vertical axis shows the annual chance of each temperature event’s occurrence. moving towards the right indicates increasingly hotter extremes that are more rare (less probable). for hot extremes, an extreme event of a particular temperature in the pre industrial climate would be more probable (vertical arrow) in the current climate. an event of a certain probability in the pre industrial climate would be warmer (horizontal arrow) in the current climate. while the climate under greenhouse gases at the pre industrial level experiences a range of hot extremes, such events are hotter and more frequent in the current climate. attributable increases in probability and magnitude have been identified consistently for many hot extremes. attributable increases have also been found for some extreme precipitation events, including hurricane rainfall events, but these results can vary among events. in some cases, large natural variations in the climate system prevent attributing changes in the probability or magnitude of a specific extreme to human influence. additionally, attribution of certain classes of extreme weather (e.g., tornadoes) is beyond current modelling and theoretical capabilities. as the climate continues to warm, larger changes in probability and magnitude are expected and, as a result, it will be possible to attribute future temperature and precipitation extremes in many locations to human influences. attributable changes may emerge for other types of extremes as the warming signal increases. in conclusion, human caused global warming has resulted in changes in a wide variety of recent extreme weather events. strong increases in probability and magnitude, attributable to human influence, have been found for many 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11(1), 014013, doi: 10.1088/1748 9326/11/1/014013. figure 11. a.1 | as figure 11.3 but for the annual minimum temperature (tnn). 1see figure 1.18 for definition of ar6 regions. acronyms for inhabited regions: arp: arabian peninsula; caf: central africa; car: caribbean; cau: central australia; cna: central north america; eas: east asia; eau: eastern australia; eca: east central asia; eeu: eastern europe; ena: eastern north america; esaf: east southern africa; esb: east siberia; gic: greenland/iceland; mdg: madagascar; med: mediterranean; nau: northern australia; nca: northern central america; neaf: north eastern africa; nen: north eastern north america; nes: north eastern south america; neu: northern europe; nsa: northern south america; nwn: north western north america; nws: north western south america; nz: new zealand; rar: russian arctic; rfe: russian far east; sah: sahara; sam: south american monsoon; sas: south asia; sau: southern australia; sca: southern central america; sea: southeast asia; seaf: south eastern africa; ses: south eastern south america; ssa: southern south america; sws: south western south america; tib: tibetan plateau; waf: western africa; wca: west central asia; wce: western and central europe; wna: western north america; wsaf: west southern africa; wsb: west siberia. 2six hourly intensity estimates during the lifetime of each tc. 3this region includes northern africa and southern europe. 4this region includes northern africa and southern europe. 5this region includes northern africa and southern europe. 6this region includes northern africa and southern europe. 7this region includes northern africa and southern europe. 8this region includes northern africa and southern europe. 9this region includes northern africa and southern europe. 10this region includes northern africa and southern europe. 11this region includes northern africa and southern europe. 12this region includes northern africa and southern europe. the regional and crosscutting fact sheets give a snapshot of the key findings, distilled from the relevant chapters. faqs explain important processes and aspects that are relevant to the whole report for a broad audience 234 authors from 64 countries assessed the understanding of the current state of the climate, including how it is changing and the role of human influence.

amount to donate forgot password? essay january 31, 2025 robert zubrin where there is no vision, the people perish.   proverbs 29:18 america now has a once in a generation opportunity to open the space frontier by initiating a sustained program of human exploration of mars. elon musk’s spacex starship launch system will soon be operational, offering payload delivery capability comparable to a saturn v moon rocket at about five percent of the cost. musk has positioned himself close to president donald trump, who at his inauguration in january promised that his administration would be “launching american astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on the planet mars.” as far as meeting the central political and technical conditions for making a bold reach to the red planet are concerned, it’s game on. there are, however, several problems. first and foremost, the national aeronautics and space administration, the government agency that one would expect to lead such an endeavor, is currently not competent to do so. and while spacex is far more competent, it should not be put into the position of executing a mars mission alone, as some would like. nasa needs to be leading the effort because america should go to mars, not just a private space enterprise. but to effectively lead human space exploration, nasa first needs to be fixed. the nasa of the 1960s did a brilliant job leading the apollo project, which, starting from near zero spaceflight capability, got men to the moon within eight years of program start. in contrast, despite possessing vastly superior material and technical resources and more than six decades of human spaceflight experience, the nasa of today has made a total mess of its artemis lunar effort. following president kennedy’s 1961 directive to get men to the moon within the decade, the apollo leadership developed a solid plan to conduct lunar missions, identified a coherent set of hardware elements to implement that plan, and proceeded to develop all the technologies needed to create those flight systems. these included large liquid fueled rocket engines, multi staged heavy lift launch vehicles, in space rendezvous, life support, power, lunar landing, spacesuits, reentry systems, and deep space communication and navigation technologies. the flight systems, which all fit together and interfaced nicely because they were planned in advance to do so, were then built and eleven piloted missions flown, with six actually reaching the lunar surface. not only that, but all this was done between 1961 to 1973   along with building and launching the skylab space station and flying several dozen lunar and planetary robotic probes   on an average inflation adjusted budget no greater than nasa’s budget is today, roughly $25 billion per year. in contrast, while it has now been seven years since president trump announced the start of what eventually became the artemis program, we have not returned to the moon. instead of implementing a clear plan, nasa has supported a random set of expensive projects to develop an assortment of flight systems that simply do not fit together. the sls launch vehicle upper stage is the wrong size for its lower stage. the orion capsule   nasa’s crewed spacecraft   is too heavy for the sls to deliver into low lunar orbit with enough propellant to come home, even by itself, let alone with a lunar excursion vehicle added on. this is because of a design change from one powerful engine, which nasa once considered “critical to the development of the space launch system,” to four less powerful ones that don’t add up to the same amount of thrust. the spacex starship, whose adaptation as a lunar lander nasa is also funding, makes both the sls and the orion capsule unnecessary, but they must be used by all missions anyway to make their makers happy. this is quite unfortunate, since the sls is projected to have a launch rate of only one every year or two, compared to an average two launches per year of the apollo program’s saturn v. starship would be an excellent choice for artemis’s primary launch vehicle. but nasa did not assign it to that role. instead they funded it to serve as the program’s lunar human landing and ascent system, a task for which its 100 ton dry mass makes it seriously suboptimal compared to the apollo lunar excursion module’s 2 ton ascent stage. the problem gets worse. in competition with the $2.9 billion nasa contract that spacex won for its starship lunar lander in 2021, the “national team,” consisting of blue origin, lockheed martin, draper labs, boeing, and some other companies, offered to develop a small hydrogen/oxygen propelled lunar landing and ascent vehicle for $5.9 billion. since they were offering less capability for twice the money, the national team lost. this did not suit the national team, however, and they used their political clout to demand they get a contract too, which they did for $3.4 billion in 2023. but given that nasa was already funding the methane/oxygen propelled starship, it could have insisted that the national team design be changed to be a using methane/oxygen propulsion as well. had they done this, the national team lander could have operated as a refuellable small ferry, taking astronauts down to and up from the lunar surface from a tanker starship stationed in low lunar orbit. this would have increased the number of lunar exploration sorties supportable per starship launch by an order of magnitude. however, since the primary purpose of the national team contract was to please the national team and its political supporters by throwing cash their way, nasa chose to prioritize vendor satisfaction over hardware utility and is now paying billions for an incompatible lander. in addition to this, nasa’s plan, if it can be called that, also includes spending billions to build a space station in high lunar orbit. it is officially called the gateway   more informally, the tollbooth. this station adds nothing to the artemis program’s overall capability. quite the contrary: if the mission is being done using starship as the landing and ascent system, a lunar mission will require something like fourteen starship launches to support a single sortie to the lunar surface if it must go there via the gateway, but only ten if mission planners are allowed to ignore it. while these bizarre individual decisions have been made in a random fashion, there is a readily identifiable pathology underlying the entire mess. unlike apollo, artemis is not a purpose driven program. it is a vendor driven program. apollo spent money in order to do things. artemis is doing things in order to spend money. this has led to an insane program design. clearly, if we wish to get humans to mars, we can’t have the program managed in the same way. many people who have been following the floundering of artemis are acutely aware of its problems. for this reason, some have proposed a radical solution. instead of putting nasa in charge they would simply hand the whole program over to spacex to design, build, and fly. as seductive as it might sound, i do not believe this proposal is either practical or proper. while spacex is technically excellent, it is also self interested. it would represent an enormous conflict of interest for elon musk to avail himself of presidential power to direct many billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money into his own company. this might work for a short time, but it would guarantee program cancellation as soon as political fortunes shift a bit to give democrats control of either the house or the senate. in order to survive and succeed, the mars program must have broad support. this cannot happen if it is seen as the personal hobby horse or private piggy bank of an eccentric businessman who has now defined himself in extremely partisan terms. as a somewhat superior alternative, one might launch the mars program as a prize competition. for example, a $6 billion prize could be offered to the first company to land a 30 ton payload on mars, with a further $6 billion awarded to the first outfit to land at least 4 people on mars to explore there for at least a year and then return them to earth. second prizes of $4 billion for each milestone could be provided to the runner up. such an approach could be quite economical, as the maximum cost to the taxpayer would be fixed in advance and no government money would be spent at all unless the missions really occurred and were successful. there are problems with this approach, however. the government procurement system would have to be changed to allow billions of dollars to be appropriated but then set aside to be spent at an indefinite future date, with no change of mind on the part of the government allowed. assuming that can be solved, still other difficulties remain. for starters, the only company that is currently situated both financially and technically to go after such a prize is spacex, so many might still regard it as self dealing. moreover, there is more at stake in sending humans to the red planet than just mars exploration per se. human mars exploration will accomplish great science   it will let us know the truth about the potential prevalence and diversity of life in the universe. but it isn’t just about science. it’s about america. it’s about who we are. are we still a nation of pioneers, leaders of the free world, a people whose great deeds are celebrated not just in museums but in newspapers? the program needs to be our affirmative answer to that existential question. that means that we need to do it, not just watch it. it needs to be our program, not their program. only in this way can it function to bring americans and others who share our commitment to reason, science, freedom, creativity, and progress together in a celebration and demonstration of the power of our highest ideals in action. the american people have one instrument for exploring mars: our national space agency, nasa. yet, as outlined above, its human spaceflight program is currently incapable of doing the job. if it is to lead america’s humans to mars program, or even function as a significant partner in its leadership, it needs to be fixed. nasa’s artemis program design is incompetent because the program has no purpose. it may claim that it does, with some of its camp followers mouthing bumper sticker slogans about lunar exploration, development, or even the trillion dollar cislunar economy. but it is clear that no such goals actually animate artemis’s engineering or programmatic design. artemis is not about any lunar science or settlement or any other objectives outside of itself. it is about giving nasa and its contractors something to do that can provide a rationalization for providing them with cash. therefore, the more complex, duplicative, and slow moving the program is, the better. this type of entropy is not unique to nasa. it occurs in most organizations. for example, a trade union might be founded as part of a struggle for shorter hours and better pay. but after that is past and forgotten, its primary purpose becomes providing steady jobs for the union officials. while some of nasa’s components had a prior history, the agency was forged in the fire of the cold war for the purpose of helping to win that conflict by astonishing the world with what free people could do. within that overall urgent strategic objective, the apollo program took central stage. it thus proceeded with focus and energy. human nature was no different in the 1960s than it is today. then, as now, there were plenty of people both outside and inside nasa who observed a river of government money and were keen to obtain part of the flow. the apollo program leadership was repeatedly confronted by managers, technologists, and contractors demanding critical roles for space station, nuclear rocket, or super booster projects with the constant refrain of “you can’t do your program until you do my program.” but apollo needed to actually get to the moon, and by 1970, no less. so, its leadership showed these people the door. nasa today has engineers that are every bit as good as those who did apollo, and they are armed with far better tools. but the organization as a whole is brain dead. it is a body without a spirit. if it is to be brought back to life it must be inspired, literally   it must have its spirit put back into it. the only way to do that is by giving it an animating purpose. to save nasa, it must be given a purpose driven mission, it must understand that mission, embrace that mission, and devote itself to that mission. the mission is not there to serve nasa. nasa exists to serve the mission. the mission must come first. there are three reasons to send humans to mars: for the science, for the challenge, and for the future. the early earth and the early mars were twins. both were warm, wet, rocky planets with atmospheres dominated by carbon dioxide. earth evolved life. if the theory is correct that life emerges naturally from chemistry through a process of complexification that occurs whenever conditions are right, then life should have evolved on mars too. we need to know if it did, and if so, what forms it took. we now know from observations made by the kepler space telescope that, out of the stars that are like our sun, an estimated one in five have roughly earth size planets orbiting in their habitable zones. this means there are perhaps as many as 80 billion such planets in our galaxy alone. if life evolves wherever there is a decent planet, it means life is everywhere. furthermore, since the entire history of life on earth is one of development into diverse forms, including those manifesting ever greater capacities for activity, intelligence, and accelerated evolution, if life is everywhere, intelligence is everywhere. if we find evidence of past or present life on mars, it means we are not alone. this is something that thinking men and women have wondered about for thousands of years. it is worth risking life and treasure to find out. moreover, while there are forceful arguments that can be made why life must be based on complex hydrocarbon molecules and aqueous chemistry, there is no a priori reason why life must necessarily employ the same dna rna information system utilized by all life on earth. in trying to understand the phenomenon of life, biologists today are like untraveled people who, having encountered only the latin alphabet in their homelands, think it is what alphabets are. but in fact, it is possible instead to achieve the same purpose using the cyrillic or arabic alphabets, or even chinese characters, which not only look different, but operate according to an entirely different set of principles. what alphabet does life elsewhere use? the question is of more than academic importance. biotechnology is going to be one of the main engineering sciences of the twenty first century and many to follow. it is nanotech made real. a different bioinformation system could offer engineering possibilities as much greater in comparison to dna rna as silicon computers are to ones based on vacuum tubes, electric relays, or mechanical babbage machines. fossil hunting to find evidence of past life on mars will involve, as it does on earth, hiking long distances through rough terrain, using intuition to search for subtle clues, doing heavy digging and pickaxe work, and performing delicate work to reveal traces of past life pasted between pages of hardened sediments now turned to rock. finding current life will require wide ranging field exploration followed by setting up drilling rigs to access liquid water a kilometer or more underground, bringing up samples, and analyzing them in a well equipped lab on the martian surface. these tasks are light years beyond the capabilities of robotic rovers. only human explorers can achieve them. if we don’t go, we won’t know. nations, like individuals and institutions, grow when they challenge themselves and stagnate when they do not. a humans to mars program would pay us back with massive generation of intellectual capital by inspiring millions of young citizens to develop their talents with a bracing challenge: learn your science and you can be an explorer of new worlds! in the 1960s, the apollo program issued precisely that challenge. what followed was a doubling in the number of our science and engineering graduates, whose innovations have since repaid us the program cost many times over. with the scientific professions now open to young women and minorities in a way that was simply not the case in the sixties, the social impact of a bold mars exploration program would be even greater today. forcing nasa to engage in a brave mars program is precisely what is needed to transform the agency into an effective instrument for supporting all of the nation’s goals in space. nasa today is like a peacetime military with plenty of talented and enthusiastic junior officers but whose upper ranks have become filled by dead wood. it must be thrown into the heat of battle in order to purge it of its mcclellans and find its grants. finally, it is by rising to the challenge of mars that we can demonstrate both the courage and the excellence that we need to show if we are to maintain world leadership. americans were the first to fly to and the first to reach the moon. the world needs to know that it is still true that americans are the ones who can do   and who dare to do   what others can only dream of. so we need to be the first to mars. philosophers who claim that we are living at the end of history could not be more wrong. we are living at the beginning of history. a thousand years from now there will be hundreds of new branches of human civilization thriving not only on mars, but on scores of planets orbiting stars in this region of the galaxy. what language will they speak? what traditions and values will they hold dear? only people who choose to be parents get to have descendants. only those nations that take part in the settlement of space will get to put their stamp upon the future. of all the worlds beyond earth currently within our reach, mars is by far the most viable candidate for human settlement, as i’ve shown in detail in the new world on mars: what we can create on the red planet (2024) and elsewhere. on the moon, outside of a few ultracold craters at its south pole, water exists only in concentrations of a few parts per million diffused in its soil. in contrast, mars has oceans of water, including vast amounts in liquid form deep underground, continent sized regions of frozen mud ranging from five to sixty percent water by weight, and massive formations of pure water ice glaciers, containing perhaps as much water as the american great lakes or more, extending from the north pole down to 38 degrees n, the latitude of san franscico on earth. the moon is lacking in any meaningful supply of carbon or nitrogen, elements essential for life. mars, with an atmosphere that is 95 percent carbon dioxide and 2.6 percent nitrogen, has plenty of both. mars not only possesses all the elements needed for industry but has had a complex geological history including both vulcanism and water action that has allowed many rocks to be concentrated into useful mineral ore. in contrast, the waterless moon lacks many essential industrial elements and those that it has are all mixed together in trash rock. as thin as it is, averaged across the dome of the sky, mars’s atmosphere provides the equivalent of about two feet (65 cm) of water’s worth of radiation shielding to its surface. that is well above the thickness required for a solar flare storm shelter, and thus fully adequate to protect both astronaut explorers and thin walled greenhouses taking advantage of mars’s 24 hour day to grow crops using natural sunlight. in contrast, the moon has a month long cycle of day and night and no atmosphere at all, making greenhouse agriculture on its surface a non starter. instead, plants would have to grow underground using electrically generated artificial light to support photosynthesis. the power requirement to do this at scale would be enormous. (for radiation concerns, see endnote 1.) for the coming age of space settlement, mars compares to the moon as north america compared to greenland during the age of european maritime exploration. greenland was closer to europe, so europeans reached it first. but it was too impoverished an environment to host more than a few outposts. in contrast, america was a place that could be not only settled but become the home for a huge vibrant new branch of western civilization. for our generation and those that will follow us in this century, mars is the new world. mars can and should be settled. but it is important to be clear about how and why this should be done. elon musk has propounded the idea that thousands of starship flights should rapidly land a million people on mars to create a metropolis that will “preserve the light of consciousness” after the human race is destroyed on earth. this idea, which musk says is inspired by isaac asimov’s noteworthy foundation science fiction trilogy, is seriously misconceived. in asimov’s novels, a group of scientists are sent to settle the planet terminus (also the name musk has suggested for his colony) on the edge of the galaxy, so that after the anticipated collapse of the galactic empire their descendants can emerge to reconstruct civilization. it’s a grand read. but it is not applicable to the task at hand. a human mars civilization cannot be created in the manner of the d day landings, delivering settlers to land on the hostile shore 100,000 people at a time. the troops on normandy beach could be supported from england by liberty ships capable of carrying 10,000 tons of cargo each across the channel in a matter of hours. in contrast, starships will be able to carry only about 100 tons of cargo from earth to mars and will take 6 to 8 months to perform the transit. consequently, a mars settlement of any size cannot be supported from earth. before large numbers of people go to the red planet, the agricultural and industrial base that are needed to feed, clothe, and house them will have to be developed, built, and up and running. the settlement of mars must therefore occur organically, as the settlement of america did, with small groups of pioneers creating the first farms and industries that provide the basis for supporting ever larger waves of settlers to follow. furthermore, martian civilization is very unlikely to emerge in the form of a million person metropolis, as any city of that size requires a well developed system of long distance transportation to provide it with necessary materials. that is why million person cities on earth were rare until the invention of railroads. instead, the initial settlement of mars is most likely to occur in the form of a multitude of smaller towns, with locations optimized to access different types of material resources, and populations of thousands to tens of thousands, with perhaps 50,000 (the size of renaissance florence) representative of a cultural capital. regardless of how it is distributed, no martian million person civilization could possibly survive the collapse of human civilization on earth. technological civilization requires a vast division of labor. given the multitude of the components and alloys in a good electric wristwatch, it is unlikely that a society of 1 million people could produce one, or even a wristwatch battery, let alone an iphone. so, the idea of sending people to mars to survive the extermination of terrestrial humanity simply won’t work. furthermore, it is so morally repulsive that its embrace would doom any program so foolish as to adopt it. coated with ideological skunk essence, its protagonists would appear more like the selfish characters in edgar allan poe’s “the masque of the red death,” dancing in a castle while everyone outside dies in an epidemic, than the heroes of asimov’s foundation series. we are not going to mars to desert humanity. we are going to mars to strengthen humanity   to vastly expand its power to meet all future challenges by establishing new highly inventive branches of civilization. we are not going to mars to “preserve the light of consciousness” in an off world hideaway. we are going to mars to liberate human minds by opening an unlimited frontier to human hands. we are not going to mars to party while the earth burns. we are going to mars to prevent earth from burning by showing that there is no need to kill each other fighting over provinces when by invoking our higher natures we can create planets. together to mars, then together with mars, human freedom will expand into the cosmos. we do not go to mars to give nasa something to do, to plant a flag, or to set a new altitude record for the aviation almanac. we go to mars for the science, for the challenge, and for the future. to achieve that purpose, we must implement a bold and effective program of field exploration. this understanding must be the basis of all aspects of mission design. there are two radically different types of trajectories that can be used for a human mission to mars. these, invoking terms used both in astrology and astronomy, are known as conjunction class and opposition class missions. conjunction means that mars is on one side of the sun when earth is on the other: viewed from earth, the other two   the sun and mars   are in the same direction, hence conjunction. opposition means that mars and earth are on the same side of the sun: viewed from earth, the sun is in one direction and mars in the other, hence opposition. conjunction missions involve a 2.5 year roundtrip to mars, with roughly equal outbound and inbound legs of 6 to 8 months, and up to 1.5 years on the martian surface. opposition missions can be achieved somewhat more quickly, with a roundtrip time of 2 years, but almost all of that time would be spent in transit on two very unequal transfer legs and only about 30 days spent on or orbiting the red planet. with the exception of occasional periods of time when some people who knew what they were doing had control of the ball, nasa managers have consistently embraced the opposition class mission as the basis of their designs for getting humans to mars. they have done this because their “figure of merit” for human mars mission designs is minimum time away from earth: the better mission design is the shorter one. not to put too fine a point on the matter, this is really dumb. if your figure of merit for mission design is minimum time away from earth, you should never leave. conjunction missions, in contrast, maximize astronauts’ time on mars. they come with other important advantages as well. they require lower initial mission mass in low earth orbit, because their propulsion requirements are less. they also involve lower radiation doses and fewer zero gravity health effects because they spend less time in space and only travel in the region between earth and mars, while opposition missions must fly long trajectories into the inner solar system passing as close to the sun as venus. ultimately, it all comes down to whether you actually want to be on mars or not. if your assignment is to be able to claim you’ve been to mars, every day on mars is a burden. if your goal is exploration, every day on mars is a treasure. while there should be fair competition for all mission hardware used by the human mars exploration program, it is a foregone conclusion at this time that the best launch system for the effort will be the spacex starship. this soon to be operational system will offer comparable lift capacity to the sls but with at least twenty times the launch rate and two orders of magnitude lower cost. we therefore assume that starship will be selected as the program launch booster. after payload delivery to low earth orbit (leo), however, there are a number of ways that the mission could proceed. spacex’s own proposed mission plan would be to fly the starship to leo along with 100 tons of cargo, and then refuel it with 600 tons of methane/oxygen bipropellant delivered to orbit by six tanker starships. this would provide it with sufficient propellant to fly to mars on a six month conjunction class trajectory, aerobrake into mars orbit, and then land on mars. after unloading its cargo, the starship could serve as the home for a very substantial crew for a year and a half, during which time it would be refueled with some 600 tons of methane/oxygen bipropellant produced from martian carbon dioxide and water. this would be enough to fly back to earth on a six month trajectory carrying the crew and ten tons of cargo. this mission plan offers a number of advantages. first and foremost, it requires use of only a single flight system that is already in an advanced stage of development and scheduled for use as part of the artemis moon program as well. thus, the same team and infrastructure used to operate artemis could support the mars program simultaneously, offering both programs large cost savings. second, the payload delivered to the surface of mars is enormous relative to competing approaches, and so is the potential crew size. elon musk advertises starship as a transport capable of delivering 100 colonists to mars at a time. such a large number would neither be necessary nor desirable for an exploration mission, but a crew of twenty or so might be readily accommodated. this would be around four times the size of the crew proposed in most other credible mars mission plans. moreover, the entire crew would be landed on mars, where they all would be available to support the field exploration effort, and where they all could avail themselves of natural gravity and substantial radiation protection offered by the martian environment. unlike typical nasa mission designs, no one would be left on an orbiting mothership doing nothing useful except for minding the store, while undergoing extensive deconditioning from extended exposure to zero gravity and soaking up cosmic rays. furthermore, there would be no mission critical mars orbit rendezvous on the return leg of the mission. there are difficulties with this plan, however, which stem from the same source as the problem with spacex’s lunar mission architecture: the starship is way too heavy to serve as an optimal ascent vehicle. by a rough estimate, to make the 600 metric tons of propellant required to refuel the starship once on mars within a year and a half would require a power source with an average round the clock output of 600 kilowatts. a solar array that could do that would cover 60,000 square meters   that’s over 13 football fields in size   and weigh about 240 metric tons. it would require three starship flights just to deliver such a solar array to mars, and it would then be a major burden to deploy and maintain. a more practical alternative would be to use nuclear power. we could imagine a plausible reactor design at this power level with a mass of about ten tons. (see endnote 2.) from a technical point of view, nuclear is the far superior alternative to supply the required surface power. however, to achieve the necessary compact size and weight, space nuclear reactors require the use of either plutonium or highly enriched uranium, which are both controlled substances. thus the government will need to be involved. this poses issues, because the department of energy is afflicted by all the same bureaucratic pathologies as nasa, if not more so. a reactor development program done in house at the modern doe would never produce a working system on the timeline required for a human mars mission program. instead, it would have to be a commercially led effort with the doe playing a supporting role. there is another way to mitigate the energy production problem. we could achieve a very large reduction in the amount of propellant needed by introducing an additional flight element, which i call a starboat. this could be a vehicle of similar type to the current spacex starship but scaled down by about a factor of five in mass. this could play numerous roles that would correct the weaknesses in the spacex plan. for example, it could do a direct return from the mars surface to earth using 120 tons of propellant or perform a low mars orbit rendezvous using just 50 tons of propellent, with a single tanker in low mars orbit being able to support five such return flights. it could also be lifted to earth orbit fully fueled by a single starship and sent directly to mars with five tons of cargo without any earth orbit refueling, or 25 tons of cargo with a single tanker refueling. this would eliminate the problem of needing to launch seven starships (the mission vehicle plus six tankers) within a single launch window as is required by the spacex plan. if, as assumed in these examples, the starboat is used as the interplanetary flight vehicle, the crew size would have to be reduced from twenty to four or five, but that might well be appropriate for initial missions that will need to be conducted before all the base infrastructure is up and running. alternatively, instead of putting a tanker in low mars orbit, a starship fully fitted out for crew could be stationed there, and the starboat only employed as a reusable shuttle between the surface and orbit. in that case, the plan could retain the ability to employ twenty person crews, as they could ride out and land mars along with 100 tons of freight on a standard starship, only needing to accept the closer quarters on the smaller vehicle during a short mars to orbit flight on the return leg. the development of the starboat would also fix the excessive launch problem with the spacex artemis mission plan. the current plan requires 200 tons of propellant to be delivered to low lunar orbit to fuel the starship on a roundtrip sortie to the lunar surface. at one fifth the size, a starboat could make the same trip with only 40 tons of fuel. similarly, the propellant requirement for a round trip from the gateway to the lunar surface would be reduced from 400 tons to 80. and this could be further reduced by another factor of four when and if lunar oxygen production becomes operational. (see endnote 3.) the starboat could also serve as the upper stage of a reusable first stage booster in the same class as the falcon 9, neutron, and new glenn boosters, thereby creating a fully reusable medium lift system capable of performing many important supporting mission roles. with a payload delivery capability to mars of up to 25 tons, about twenty times as much as the landing system used to support the curiosity and perseverance missions, it could also deliver large scale robotic exploration missions to the red planet, as we shall discuss below. finally, and critically, the starboat would endow the mars base crew with global mobility. mars is a planet with a surface area equal to all the continents of the earth put together. it cannot be explored from a single base using slow moving ground vehicles with limited range. to explore mars competently, we need worldwide access and the ability to travel rapidly across distances of continental scale. with 50, or better yet, 100 tons of propellant, the starboat could give us this capability in spades. (see endnote 4.) without starboat, mars base explorers would be limited to a region about the size of brooklyn. with starboat, they would have the freedom to roam over an expanse nearly double the size of the continental united states. if additional starships were landed to establish refueling bases scattered at long distances across the planet, more such explorable regions could be opened up. nine such refueling stations would provide coverage of the entire world. the starboat would add enormously to both artemis and mars mission effectiveness, and make the two programs coherent with each other. it should therefore be developed as an essential program element. (see endnote 5.) the first requirement to get the humans to mars effort started right is to create a competent program leadership. a tiger team needs to be established within nasa composed of technically excellent people who understand the purpose of the program and whose first loyalty is to the mission. the program cannot be led properly by people who are representing outside interests such as various technology development programs, aerospace companies, or nasa centers who are looking for a piece of the action. the program will undoubtedly need the services of many such entities, but they are vendors to the program, not the purpose of the program. you don’t run a company in order to deliver cash to vendors. you pay vendors in order to pursue the purposes of the company. if it is to succeed, the program must be purpose driven, not vendor driven. the tiger team needs to be able to direct the resources of nasa to serve its purposes. these should include nasa’s artemis program and its robotic mars exploration program. the artemis program needs to be reconceived in a way that makes it both internally coherent and fully supportive of the development needed for the human mars exploration effort. a clean mission architecture for this would employ starship for earth to orbit launch and refueling in both low earth orbit and low lunar orbit, supporting roundtrip sorties from lunar orbit to the surface using starboat, as an initial capability. lunar oxygen production enhanced by surface nuclear power should then come onboard at the earliest possible date to provide a powerful force multiplier. miscellaneous other elements associated with the current program, including the gateway, sls, the expendable hydrogen/oxygen national team lander, and probably orion are not necessary, and their very ample funds should be reallocated to things that are. nasa’s robotic mars exploration program is one of the jewels in the space agency’s crown. since being restarted after a twenty year post viking hiatus with the mars pathfinder and mars global surveyor missions launched in 1996, it has had a great run, including five successful rovers, two stationary landers, four orbiters, and a helicopter, and only two mission failures. but recently the program has become bogged down with the design of an excessively costly and complex mars sample return mission that has little relevance to either the search for life on mars or preparation for human landings. it would be of much greater value to both the human exploration program and mars science in general if instead of spending $10 billion on a mars mission to return a small sample from a single site in about a decade, the mars exploration program use those same funds to launch twenty missions with an average cost of $500 million each. these could deliver a varied cast of rovers, helicopters, and drillers, armed with all sorts of instruments and life detection experiments to numerous locations across the red planet, backed up by high data rate orbiters equipped with ground penetrating radar capable of identifying subsurface caverns, lava tubes, water, and other resources. such a broad ranging robotic survey would allow the tiger team to identify the best sites for human mars bases and settlement. once a good candidate site for the first base is chosen, a starboat or starship should be landed there, delivering not one robot, but an entire robotic expedition. this would include many helicopters and rovers to characterize the site and its surroundings in as much detail as possible and emplace navigation beacons and radio repeaters throughout the region. the lander could also carry a well instrumented lab to receive and analyze samples brought back to it by the mobile units. construction rovers could also be used to set up the base power system and other facilities and to mine water. manufacture of methane/oxygen propellant could then be initiated, refueling the lander for ascent. with determination, focus, and a bit of luck, such a mission could conceivably be launched by 2028   within president’s trump’s four year term   thereby giving the mars effort a solid launch both technically and politically, as the scientific bonanza it would produce would be so enormous as to powerfully counter those skeptical of the program’s merit. this done and other preparations made, in 2031 the first human mission could be sent to the base, where prepared facilities and a fully fueled ascent vehicle would await them. the crew could then proceed to explore the region at maximum effectiveness, working as a combined operation with a large team of robotic scouts. as this program unfolds at mars base 1, robotic survey efforts followed by robotic expeditions could proceed to continue to identify and develop additional sites planetwide for more bases. the science return of such a program would be beyond reckoning. the future it would open would be limitless. the linear no threshold (lnt) methodology is a common and commonly misused approach to warning about radiation risks. it posits that a small radiation dose that has no immediate effects holds a proportional fraction of the same risk as a large dose that would be fatal. so, for example, using lnt methodology, if drinking 100 glasses of wine in one night would kill you, drinking one glass would pose a 1 percent risk of death. this is false. cosmic ray dose rates on the international space station and on the martian surface are about half those experienced in interplanetary space, because having a planet beneath you shields out half the sky. about a dozen astronauts and cosmonauts who are veterans of long duration missions on the iss or mir have experienced cumulative cosmic ray doses equivalent to a roundtrip mars mission. even based on lnt methodology, one would calculate only about a 1 percent statistical risk of radiation induced cancer for each of these individuals. in fact, no significant radiological health effects have been observed on members of this group. a research program devoted to increasing the radiation dose rate among a larger group of human subjects for the purpose of generating cancer cases does not pass the ethical smell test. any such proposed research program would unquestionably be rejected out of hand by the medical review board of any american hospital. this means that the data from past human missions to and beyond low earth orbit remains the best data available, and it suggests that radiation effects of a mars mission would be manageable. solar: if we wish to make 600 metric tons of methane/oxygen propellant over a 500 day period, we would need a source capable of generating an average power of 600 kilowatts around the clock. the solar flux reaching the martian surface at low latitudes under completely clear conditions at high noon is about 400 w/m2, but averaged over the course of a 24.6 hour martian day (or “sol”) is only 100 w/m2. if we take into account loss of sunlight due to atmospheric dust and wish to have a bit of margin, it would be wise to estimate this to average about 50 w/m2 over the course of 500 days. converting this to electricity using photovoltaics at an efficiency of 20 percent would therefore yield an average power of 10 w of electric capacity (we) per square meter. a solar array capable of producing 600 kwe would therefore need to have an area of 60,000 square meters   roughly 13.4 football fields in size. this would require frequent cleaning to maintain its power level, and at an estimated mass of 4 kg/m2 would weigh about 240 metric tons. it would thus require three starship flights to deliver such a solar array to mars, and be a major burden to deploy and maintain it as well. nuclear: the soviet topaz nuclear reactor had an electric power output of up to 10 kilowatts and had a mass of 1 metric ton. this is about the high end of the performance targeted by nasa’s kilopower project that began in 2015. however, in the 1980s, nasa and the department of energy had a joint project known as sp 100 to develop a 100 kwe space nuclear reactor, which was taken to a fairly detailed level of design. sp 100 had a projected mass of 4 tons, so the necessary power to produce 600 tons of propellant could be provided by six such reactors with a total mass of 24 tons   one tenth of that needed by the photovoltaic system. alternatively, a new design could be developed for a 600 kwe reactor, which would probably have a mass of around 10 tons, since the mass of nuclear reactor systems tends to scale up roughly in proportion to the square root of their power. oxygen can be produced on the moon by breaking down lunar rocks, which are all oxides of metals. for example, you can react hydrogen with iron oxide at 800 degrees c to produce metallic iron plus water. the water product can then be electrolyzed to produce oxygen, as well as hydrogen, which can then be recycled to reduce more iron oxide. oxygen can also be produced by electrolyzing lunar ice, but that is only available in ultracold, permanently shadowed craters near the moon’s south pole. producing propellant on mars is much easier, as water is widely available and the hydrogen produced by electrolysis can be catalytically reacted with the carbon dioxide that comprises 95 percent of the martian atmosphere to produce methane and water, with nearly 100 percent selectivity and yield. in addition, carbon dioxide can be split directly into carbon monoxide and oxygen in chemical reactors, or used together with water to produce both oxygen and food via photosynthesis. methane/oxygen bipropellant is 78 percent oxygen by weight, and producing such oxygen on the scale needed by the starboat would be a far more tractable task than that required to service the full scale starship. starboat can reach low mars orbit using 50 tons of propellant. that means that using 50 tons or less, it could launch from anywhere on mars to land anywhere else in less than an hour. that’s one way. but it could also go out and back 1,000 km using 50 tons of propellant, or 2,200 km using 100 tons. thus, employing a starboat as a sortie vehicle, a single base could support the exploration of a region 4,400 km in diameter, enclosing some 16 million square kilometers of land. traveling from the martian surface to mars orbit requires a rocket propelled velocity change (known as delta v) of 3.8 km/s. however, it would only need a delta v of about 0.3 km/s to come down and land   because it can slow down using mars’s atmosphere   for a total roundtrip delta v of 4.1 km/s. this is nearly the same as the 3.8 km/s delta v needed to travel roundtrip from low lunar orbit to the lunar surface. thus a starboat designed for use as an orbit to surface ferry on mars could readily serve the same function on the moon. it is true that mission performance could be potentially optimized further by creating specialized starboat designs for each of its potential roles. for example, a starboat used only for lunar landing and ascent could be built lighter as it would not need thermal protection, while the range of one used for surface to surface travel on mars could be extended by adding wings. but creating more types of specialized flight vehicles would add to the program’s development cost. the question then becomes where across a spectrum ranging from generalization to specialization the program should place its bets. elon musk has argued for a one size fits all starship only mission architecture. this offers maximum simplicity but imposes great costs. by going to a two size fits all starship and starboat plan to implement both mars and lunar missions, 80 percent of these costs can be eliminated. but some might go farther, recommending three, four, or five types of vehicles. eventually, we probably will get them all. but i think having two types is the right place to start. it’s a judgment call. essay january 31, 2025 summer/fall 2018 robert zubrin fall 2019 robert zubrin fall 2022 robert 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newsletter with much of the u.s. experiencing a heat wave, let us consider the beach and all its promises and pitfalls. by melissa kirsch a friend and i like to send each other photos of the corniest beach house signs we encounter, those punny plaques that declare a margaritaville state of mind rules in this house. the signs are made of painted driftwood and say stuff like “sand by me” and “it’s always 5 o’clock here” and “if you’re not barefoot, you’re overdressed.” these are all variations on the overarching theme, the through line of summer vacation: life is a beach. you are hereby commanded to put on a brightly colored swimsuit, sip a frosty cocktail garnished with a slice of pineapple and relax. this is one of the problems i think non beach people have with the beach. that mandate to hang loose, to be easy and fun and not care that invisible bugs are biting you all the time. non beach people lament that the beach is one of the few places where you can’t get everything you want at any time (this is precisely what recommends the beach to others). so you need to pack with provisions for any contingency, like you’re deploying for six months to a remote location of unpredictable climate and topography, perhaps the moon. as a child, the beach was uncomplicated. i loved nothing more than to sit in the sand all day in a damp bathing suit making drip castles and letting a soft serve ice cream cone melt down my arm. but as a teenager, some combination of body shame and a desire to appear as vampiric and vitamin d deprived as the goth musicians i idolized made me into a person who wanted nothing to do with the sun and therefore nothing to do with the brand of plastic fun that the beach was peddling. it wasn’t until i was an adult that i understood there are many different ways to be at the beach and many different ways to be a beach person. the beach can be a full day family affair, with inflatable sea horses and economy size bottles of spf 75 and a cooler of soft drinks. it can also be a solo sojourn on a tuesday afternoon with just a towel, a hat and a book. the beach is a site freighted with so much preparation and expectation that we forget it’s just a location. we project all kinds of meaning onto the place but really, it has no meaning that we don’t give to it. it doesn’t insist that a particular kind of good time be had there. it’s land and water, evidence of the earth’s functions, erosion and deposition, tides and currents.