The 2003 Heatwave It was the summer, scientists now realise, when global warming at last made itself unmistakably felt. We knew that summer 2003 was remarkable: Britain experienced its record high temperature and continental Europe saw forest fires raging out of control, great rivers drying to a...
“It will certainly have left its mark on a number of countries, as to how they think and plan for climate change in the future, much as the 2000 floods have revolutionised the way the Government is thinking about flooding in the UK. The 2003 heatwave will have similar repercussions across...
The 2003 Heatwave It was the summer, scientists now realise, when global warming at last made itself unmistakably felt. We knew that summer 2003 was remarkable: Britain experienced its record high temperature and continental Europe saw forest fires raging out of control, great rivers drying to a...
The 2003 Heatwave as an Example of Summers in a Greenhouse Climate? Observations and Climate Model Simulations for Basel, Switzerland. Global Planetary Change 44 (1-4): 73-81.Beniston, M., and H. F. Diaz. "The 2O03 Heat Wave as an Example of Summers in a Greenhouse Climate?
The2003HeatWaveinFrance:DangerousClimateChange HereandNow MarcPoumad`ere, 1,2∗ ClaireMays, 1 SophieLeMer, 2 andRussellBlong 3 InananalysisoftheFrenchepisodeofheatwavein2003,thisarticlehighlightshowheatwave dangersresultfromtheintricateassociationofnaturalandsocialfactors.Unusuallyhightem- peratures,aswellas...
“It will certainly have left its mark on a number of countries, as to how they think and plan for climate change in the future, much as the 2000 floods have revolutionised the way the Government is thinking about flooding in the UK. The 2003 heatwave will have similar repercussions across...
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The summer of 2003 was probably the hottest in Europe since at latest ad 15001,2,3,4, and unusually large numbers of heat-related deaths were reported in France, Germany and Italy5. It is an ill-posed question whether the 2003 heatwave was caused, in a s
The 2003 summer in Europe was a sharp reminder that extreme temperatures remain a considerable danger for developed countries. In France, nearly 15,000 deaths were recorded during that heatwave. The most vulnerable populations were found to be elderly people; those people suffering chronic diseases,...
Burt, S., 2004: The August 2003 heatwave in the United Kingdom: Part 1--Maximum temperatures and historical precedents. Weather, 59, 199-208.Burt, S. (2004b) The August 2003 heatwave in the United Kingdom: Part 3 - Minimum temperatures. Weather 59, 272-273....