Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
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Articles | Volume 18, issue 1
Articles | Volume 18, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-365-2018
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-365-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 18, issue 1
Research article
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24 Jan 2018
Research article |  | 24 Jan 2018

Extreme heat in India and anthropogenic climate change

Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Sjoukje Philip, Sarah Kew, Michiel van Weele, Peter Uhe, Friederike Otto, Roop Singh, Indrani Pai, Heidi Cullen, and Krishna AchutaRao

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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.
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