Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • News & Views
  • Published:

Climate science

The dynamics of temperature extremes

Changes in the occurrence of atmospheric circulation patterns are not well understood. A study finds that these have been a big factor in observed changes in regional temperature extremes during recent decades. See Letter p.465

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Relevant articles

Open Access articles citing this article.

Access options

Rent or buy this article

Prices vary by article type

from$1.95

to$39.95

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Figure 1: The River Loire in France during the 2003 European heatwave.

Frank Perry/AFP/Getty

Notes

  1. See all news & views

References

  1. IPCC. Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (eds Stocker, T. F. et al.) (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2013).

  2. Horton, D. E. et al. Nature 522, 465–469 (2015).

    Article  CAS  ADS  Google Scholar 

  3. Cohen, J. et al. Nature Geosci. 7, 627–637 (2014).

    Article  CAS  ADS  Google Scholar 

  4. Screen, J. A. & Simmonds, I. Nature Clim. Change 4, 704–709 (2014).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  5. Miralles, D. G., Teuling, A. J., van Heerwaarden, C. C. & Vilà-Guerau de Arellano, J. Nature Geosci. 7, 345–349 (2014).

    Article  CAS  ADS  Google Scholar 

  6. Deser, C., Phillips, A. S., Alexander, M. A. & Smoliak, B. V. J. Clim. 27, 2271–2296 (2014).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  7. Barnes, E. A. Geophys. Res. Lett. 40, 4734–4739 (2013).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  8. Shepherd, T. G. Nature Geosci. 7, 703–708 (2014).

    Article  CAS  ADS  Google Scholar 

  9. Mori, M., Watanabe, M., Shiogama, H., Inoue, J. & Kimoto, M. Nature Geosci. 7, 869–873 (2014).

    Article  CAS  ADS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Theodore G. Shepherd.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Shepherd, T. The dynamics of temperature extremes. Nature 522, 425–427 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/522425a

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/522425a

This article is cited by

Search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing