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24 Jan 2018
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| 24 Jan 2018
Extreme heat in India and anthropogenic climate change
Geert Jan Oldenborgh
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, the Netherlands
Sjoukje Philip
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, the Netherlands
Sarah Kew
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, the Netherlands
Michiel Weele
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, the Netherlands
Peter Uhe
Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Friederike Otto
Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Roop Singh
Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, The Hague, the Netherlands
Indrani Pai
Columbia Water Center, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
Climate Central, Princeton, NJ, USA
Heidi Cullen
Climate Central, Princeton, NJ, USA
Krishna AchutaRao
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
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On 19 May 2016 a temperature of 51.0 °C in Phalodi (northwest India) set a new Indian record. In 2015 a very lethal heat wave had occurred in the southeast. We find that in India the trend in extreme temperatures due to greenhouse gases is largely cancelled by increasing air pollution and irrigation. The health impacts of heat waves do increase due to higher humidity and air pollution. This implies that we expect heat waves to become much hotter as soon as air pollution is brought under control.
On 19 May 2016 a temperature of 51.0 °C in Phalodi (northwest India) set a new Indian record. In...
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