New study showing hot days over tropical land are projected to warm faster than the average day (bad news for climate impacts) 🌡️🔥🥵
Amplified warming of hot days is explained by the drier-get-drier theory (see: www.nature.com/articles/s41...)
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Projections of Earth's Hottest Surface Temperatures in CMIP6
CMIP6 captures the broad spatial pattern of p99(Tmax) versus Berkeley Earth, supporting projections of record-like heat Tropical extremes amplify: TDM and TDX warm ∼30%–40% faster than TTL in SSP...