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The extremely hot and dry 2018 summer in central and northern Europe from a multi-faceted weather and climate perspective
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association, P.O. Box 60 12 03, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-TRO), Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Lauren S. Andersen
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association, P.O. Box 60 12 03, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
Florian N. Becker
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-TRO), Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Goratz Beobide-Arsuaga
International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling
(IMPRS-ESM), Hamburg, Germany
Institute of Oceanography, Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany
Marcus Breil
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-TRO), Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Institute of Physics and Meteorology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
Giacomo Cozzi
Regionales Klimabüro Potsdam, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Stahnsdorf, Germany
Institute of Mathematics, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
Jens Heinke
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association, P.O. Box 60 12 03, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
Lisa Jach
Institute of Physics and Meteorology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
Deborah Niermann
Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach, Germany
Dragan Petrovic
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-IFU), Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology, Campus Alpin, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Andy Richling
Institute of Meteorology, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Johannes Riebold
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, Potsdam, Germany
Stella Steidl
Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach, Germany
now at: Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering,
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, Aotearoa / New Zealand
Laura Suarez-Gutierrez
Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg, Germany
now at: Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
now at: Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, CNRS, Paris, France
Jordis S. Tradowsky
Regionales Klimabüro Potsdam, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Stahnsdorf, Germany
Bodeker Scientific, Alexandra, Aotearoa / New Zealand
Dim Coumou
Department of Water and Climate Risk, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Department of Weather and Climate Models, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, the
Netherlands
André Düsterhus
Irish Climate Analysis and Research UnitS (ICARUS), Department of
Geography, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland
Florian Ellsäßer
Centre of International Development and Environmental Research,
Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
Georgios Fragkoulidis
Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University,
Mainz, Germany
Daniel Gliksman
Institute of Hydrology and Meteorology, Faculty of Environmental
Sciences, Technische Universität Dresden, Tharandt, Germany
Institute of Geography, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Dörthe Handorf
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, Potsdam, Germany
Karsten Haustein
Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon,
Hamburg, Germany
now at: Institute for Meteorology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Kai Kornhuber
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association, P.O. Box 60 12 03, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
German Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin, Germany
Harald Kunstmann
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-IFU), Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology, Campus Alpin, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Institute of Geography, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
Joaquim G. Pinto
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-TRO), Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Kirsten Warrach-Sagi
Institute of Physics and Meteorology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
Elena Xoplaki
Centre of International Development and Environmental Research,
Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
Institute of Geography, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen,
Germany
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Executive editor
I agree with the handling editor and suggest considering it as a highlight paper.
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The objective of this study was to perform a comprehensive, multi-faceted analysis of the 2018 extreme summer in terms of heat and drought in central and northern Europe, with a particular focus on Germany. A combination of favorable large-scale conditions and locally dry soils were related with the intensity and persistence of the events. We also showed that such extremes have become more likely due to anthropogenic climate change and might occur almost every year under +2 °C of global warming.
The objective of this study was to perform a comprehensive, multi-faceted analysis of the 2018...
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