Heatwaves Accompanied By Sea Level Rise Happening More In Tropics: Study
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Such events could be made up to five times likelier by 2049 if carbon emissions globally continued at the current rate, researchers said.
At coastal locations globally, heatwaves accompanied by an extreme sea level rise in the short-term have significantly increased between 1998 and 2017, with the tropics seeing a "pronounced increase", according to new research.
Hot and humid conditions in the tropics could be associated with the increased occurrences of such 'Concurrent Heatwave and Extreme Sea Level', or a CHWESL, event, as these regions are also found to be at a higher risk of such events, researchers hypothesised.
Such events could be made up to five times likelier by 2049 if carbon emissions globally continued at the current rate, they said.
