Abstract
A destructive extreme heat attacked Northeast Asia (NEA) in the midsummer of 2018, characterized by the average midsummer Tmax (daily maximum air temperature at 2 m) ranking first during the study ...
Highlights
In the midsummer of 2018, a severe extreme heat attacked Northeast Asia (NEA), including Northeast China, Korea, and Japan
It was reported that the extreme heat that attacked Japan in July 2018 resulted in about 24 000 hospitalized patients and more than 90 deaths, and the extreme heat that occurred in South Korea during the late July to early August led to thousands of heatstroke victims and dozens of deaths
The occurrence of extreme heat is typically caused by a local anticyclonic anomaly, which favors higher temperatures through increasing the adiabatic heating associated with subsidence and the diabatic heating due to less cloud cover (Black et al 2004; Chen and Lu 2015)
Summary
In the midsummer of 2018, a severe extreme heat attacked Northeast Asia (NEA), including Northeast China, Korea, and Japan. It was reported that the extreme heat that attacked Japan in July 2018 resulted in about 24 000 hospitalized patients and more than 90 deaths, and the extreme heat that occurred in South Korea during the late July to early August led to thousands of heatstroke victims and dozens of deaths Such a destructive impact calls for an understanding of the causes of the unusual extreme heat in 2018. During the summer following an El Niño (La Niña) episode, an anomalous anticyclone (cyclone) is observed over the WNP, which modifies the local convection and further induces a meridional wave pattern with an anomalous cyclone (anticyclone) over NEA (Wang, Wu, and Lau 2001; Xie et al 2016).
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