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compound climate events: a standalone construct

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Climatology

combinations of climate drivers or hazards, such as drought with heat, whose joint occurrence causes greater harm than each alone.

In climatology, compound climate events refers to combinations of climate drivers or hazards, such as drought with heat, whose joint occurrence causes greater harm than each alone. This meaning comes from Zscheischler (2018) in Nature Climate Change.[1]

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Zscheischler, J., Westra, S., van den Hurk, B. J. J. M., Seneviratne, S. I., Ward, P. J., Pitman, A., AghaKouchak, A., Bresch, D. N., Leonard, M., Wahl, T., & Zhang, X. (2018). Future climate risk from compound events. Nature Climate Change, 8(6), 469-477. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0156-3

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