Record-breaking heatwaves disrupt global water, energy and food systems, yet the co-occurrence of atmospheric and riverine events remains largely unexplored. Here we analyse 796 river basins in the USA and Central Europe to characterize such co-occurring atmospheric–riverine compound heatwaves.
Combining water quality observations with a deep learning model, we find that compound heatwaves have increased by about 0.40 events per decade since the 1980s. This corresponds to a rise from roughly 0.76 events per year in the early period to about three times that frequency today, meaning their occurrence has effectively tripled over the past four decades.
This trend coincides with the rapid intensification of riverine heatwaves, which have increased in frequency (114%), duration (148%) and intensity (95%) between 1981–1990 and 2010–2019, far outpacing changes in atmospheric heatwaves…
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