Articles | Volume 25, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-2503-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-2503-2025
Research article
 | 
25 Jul 2025
Research article |  | 25 Jul 2025

Exploring the interplay between observed warming, atmospheric circulation, and soil–atmosphere feedbacks on heatwaves in a temperate mountain region

Marc Lemus-Canovas, Sergi Gonzalez-Herrero, Laura Trapero, Anna Albalat, Damian Insua-Costa, Martin Senande-Rivera, and Gonzalo Miguez-Macho

Related authors

More intense heatwaves under drier conditions: a compound event analysis in the Adige River basin (Eastern Italian Alps)
Marc Lemus-Canovas, Alice Crespi, Elena Maines, Stefano Terzi, and Massimiliano Pittore
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1347,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1347, 2025
Short summary
Floods in the Pyrenees: a global view through a regional database
María Carmen Llasat, Montserrat Llasat-Botija, Erika Pardo, Raül Marcos-Matamoros, and Marc Lemus-Canovas
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 3423–3443, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-3423-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-3423-2024, 2024
Short summary
A multivariate-driven approach for disentangling the reduction in near-natural Iberian water resources post-1980
Amar Halifa-Marín, Miguel A. Torres-Vázquez, Enrique Pravia-Sarabia, Marc Lemus-Canovas, Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero, and Juan Pedro Montávez
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 26, 4251–4263, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-4251-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-4251-2022, 2022
Short summary
Assessing internal changes in the future structure of dry–hot compound events: the case of the Pyrenees
Marc Lemus-Canovas and Joan Albert Lopez-Bustins
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 21, 1721–1738, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-1721-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-1721-2021, 2021
Short summary

Cited articles

Andorran Meteorological Service: Encamp meteorological time series, https://www.meteo.ad/, last access: 20 December 2024. 
Barriopedro, D., Sousa, P. M., Trigo, R. M., García-Herrera, R., and Ramos, A. M.: The Exceptional Iberian Heatwave of Summer 2018, B. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 101, S29–S34, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0159.1, 2020. 
Bartusek, S., Kornhuber, K., and Ting, M.: 2021 North American heatwave amplified by climate change-driven nonlinear interactions, Nat. Clim. Change, 12, 1143–1150, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01520-4, 2022. 
Camarero, J. J.: The Multiple Factors Explaining Decline in Mountain Forests: Historical Logging and Warming-Related Drought Stress is Causing Silver-Fir Dieback in the Aragón Pyrenees, in: High Mountain Conservation in a Changing World, edited by: Catalan, J., Ninot, J. M., and Aniz, M. M., Springer Int. Publ., Cham, 131–154, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55982-7_6, 2017. 
Cremona, A., Huss, M., Landmann, J. M., Borner, J., and Farinotti, D.: European heat waves 2022: contribution to extreme glacier melt in Switzerland inferred from automated ablation readings, The Cryosphere, 17, 1895–1912, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-1895-2023, 2023. 
Download
Short summary
This study investigates the intense heatwaves of 2022 in the Pyrenees. The interplay of the synoptic circulation with the complex topography and the pre-existing soil moisture deficits played an important role in driving the spatial variability of their temperature anomalies. Moreover, human-driven climate change has made these heatwaves more severe compared to the past. This research helps us better understand how climate change affects extreme weather in mountainous regions.
Share
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint