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Event type: Heat wave
Countries affected (identified with ArcGIS Online; provided only for geographical reference):
- Afghanistan
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bangladesh
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Brunei Darussalam
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- China
- Congo
- Congo DRC
- Cyprus
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Greece
- Guinea
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Liberia
- Libya
- Malaysia
- Mongolia
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Palestinian Territory
- Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Qatar
- Romania
- Russian Federation
- Saudi Arabia
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Turkiye
- Turkmenistan
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam
Duration: 123 days
Time span: January 06 2013 to May 08 2013
Statistics over entire affected area:
- Mean temperature anomaly: 3.9 °C
- Mean temperature: 21.0 °C
- Maximum temperature anomaly: 20.1 °C
- Maximum temperature: 34.7 °C
Event center: 11.0°N 106.0°E
Area affected: 41707208 km$^2$
Fig. 1: Map of most extreme temperature anomalies (standardized) experienced during the event. The purple star indicates the center of the extreme event. Green hatching illustrates all areas under the effect of extremes at some time during the event.
Fig. 2: Evolution of temperature at the center of the event. The climatological percentile distribution is illustrated with color shadings.
Fig. 3: Maps illustrating the evolution of standardized temperature anomalies during the event.
Event ID: Heat_wave_2013-Jan-06_to_2013-May-08_106.0_11.0