{"id":78,"date":"2025-01-30T08:15:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T08:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/t1120p0001.jamstec.go.jp\/EXT\/?page_id=78"},"modified":"2026-09-20T14:40:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T14:40:44","slug":"archive-of-weather-extremes-awe-pilot-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather Extremes Archive (WEXA)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/team\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"124309\">team<\/a> of experts in climate dynamics has prepared an archive of extreme weather events detected worldwide since 1979. This archive is hosted at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamstec.go.jp\/e\/\">Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)<\/a> and updated regularly. Events are identified based on the occurrence of persistent and anomalously high or low surface temperature conditions that are classified as either <strong>heat waves<\/strong> or <strong>cold spells<\/strong> (see <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/method\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"696\">methods <\/a>for more details).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"189\" src=\"https:\/\/wexa2.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/banner-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-254411\" style=\"width:auto;height:60px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/banner-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/banner-300x22.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/banner-760x56.jpg 760w, https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/banner-1024x75.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/banner-1536x113.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/banner-2048x151.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/banner-1200x88.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Extreme events from 2020 onward are documented on their own webpages, while events spanning the full 1979\u2013present detection period can be explored through an <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/interactive\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"68435\">interactive extreme event analysis tool<\/a>. Our <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/data\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"259\">data<\/a> are accessible in various forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Weather extremes classified by countries<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/my_custom_map_countries\" width=\"100%\" height=\"850px\", style=\"border:none;\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Click a country on the map to explore all events affecting that country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recent weather extremes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"map-container\" style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; height: 520px;\">\n  <!-- Loading Message -->\n  <div id=\"map-loading\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center; background-color: #f8f9fa; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 18px; color: #333; z-index: 10;\">\n    Map loading&#8230;\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- Plotly Iframe -->\n  <iframe loading=\"lazy\" \n    id=\"plotly-iframe\"\n    src=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/my_custom_map_recent.html\" \n    width=\"100%\" \n    height=\"520\" \n    style=\"border:none;\"\n  ><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\n<script>\n  document.getElementById('plotly-iframe').addEventListener('load', function() {\n    setTimeout(function() {\n      var loader = document.getElementById('map-loading');\n      if (loader) {\n        loader.style.display = 'none';\n      }\n    }, 3000);\n  });\n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Click an extreme event on the map to explore its dedicated statistics page.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><!-- timestat_start -->Website updated: 2026-09-20 23:00:04<br>Cold spells\/Heat waves processed on: 2026-08-31 21:42:53<br>Cold spells\/Heat waves processed using data until: 2026-08-23 11:30:00<br><!-- timestat_end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of experts in climate dynamics has prepared an archive of extreme weather events detected worldwide since 1979. This archive is hosted at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) and updated regularly. Events are identified based on the occurrence of persistent and anomalously high or low surface temperature conditions that are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weather Extremes Archive (WEXA)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-78","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}