No pause in the increase of hot temperature extremes (original) (raw)

Observational data show a continued increase of hot extremes over land during the so-called global warming hiatus. This tendency is greater for the most extreme events and thus more relevant for impacts than changes in global mean temperature.

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In the Commentary ‘No pause in the increase of hot temperature extremes’ (Nature Climate Change 4, 161–163; 2014) references 12 and 18 were incorrect, and should have appeared as: 12. IPCC, 2012: Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (eds Field, C. B. et al.) (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012). 18. Seneviratne, S. I. et al. in IPCC 2012: Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (eds Field C. B. et al.) 109–230 (IPCC, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012). These have now been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions after print 25 March 2014.

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Acknowledgements

This research was partly conducted during a sabbatical of S.I.S. at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (COECSS). S.I.S. and B.M. acknowledge partial funding from the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme, under grant agreement 282672, EMBRACE project. M.G.D. and L.V.A. acknowledge funding through the Australian Research Council grants CE110001028 and LP100200690.

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  1. the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, 8057, Switzerland
    Sonia I. Seneviratne & Brigitte Mueller
  2. Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2052, NSW, Australia
    Markus G. Donat & Lisa V. Alexander
  3. ARC Centre of Excellence in Climate System Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2052, NSW, Australia
    Markus G. Donat & Lisa V. Alexander
  4. Climate Research Division, Environment Canada, Toronto, M3H 5T4, Canada
    Brigitte Mueller

Authors

  1. Sonia I. Seneviratne
  2. Markus G. Donat
  3. Brigitte Mueller
  4. Lisa V. Alexander

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S.I.S. designed the study with substantial inputs from all authors. M.G.D., B.M. and S.I.S. analysed the data. S.I.S. and L.V.A. wrote the article, with inputs from M.G.D. and B.M.

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Correspondence toSonia I. Seneviratne.

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Seneviratne, S., Donat, M., Mueller, B. et al. No pause in the increase of hot temperature extremes.Nature Clim Change 4, 161–163 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2145

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