{"id":277392,"date":"2026-10-27T18:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-january-20-2011-to-february-09-2011-at-22-5n-359-0e\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T18:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:24:15","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-january-20-2011-to-february-09-2011-at-22-5n-359-0e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-january-20-2011-to-february-09-2011-at-22-5n-359-0e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from January 20 2011 to February 09 2011 at 22.5\u00b0N 359.0\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-Jan-20_to_2011-Feb-09_359.0_22.5.json\">JSON<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Event type: Heat wave<\/p>\n<p>Countries affected (identified with ArcGIS Online; provided only for geographical reference):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Algeria<\/li>\n<li>Benin<\/li>\n<li>Burkina Faso<\/li>\n<li>Cameroon<\/li>\n<li>Chad<\/li>\n<li>C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire<\/li>\n<li>Egypt<\/li>\n<li>Eritrea<\/li>\n<li>Ethiopia<\/li>\n<li>Ghana<\/li>\n<li>Guinea<\/li>\n<li>Libya<\/li>\n<li>Mali<\/li>\n<li>Mauritania<\/li>\n<li>Niger<\/li>\n<li>Nigeria<\/li>\n<li>Saudi Arabia<\/li>\n<li>Senegal<\/li>\n<li>Sierra Leone<\/li>\n<li>Sudan<\/li>\n<li>Togo<\/li>\n<li>Tunisia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 21 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: January 20 2011 to February 09 2011<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 5.6 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 23.2 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 11.7 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 32.9 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 22.5\u00b0N 1.0\u00b0W<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 9975057 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2011-Jan-20_to_2011-Feb-09_359.0_22.5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-117\" src=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2011-Jan-20_to_2011-Feb-09_359.0_22.5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><br clear=\"all\" \/>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_time_evo_2011-Jan-20_to_2011-Feb-09_359.0_22.5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-117\" src=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_time_evo_2011-Jan-20_to_2011-Feb-09_359.0_22.5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><br \/><br clear=\"all\" \/>Fig. 2: Evolution of temperature at the center of the event. The climatological percentile distribution is illustrated with color shadings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/evo_map_2011-Jan-20_to_2011-Feb-09_359.0_22.5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-117\" src=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/evo_map_2011-Jan-20_to_2011-Feb-09_359.0_22.5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><br \/><br clear=\"all\" \/>Fig. 3: Maps illustrating the evolution of standardized temperature anomalies during the event.<\/p>\n<p>Event ID: Heat_wave_2011-Jan-20_to_2011-Feb-09_359.0_22.5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: JSON Event type: Heat wave Countries affected (identified with ArcGIS Online; provided only for geographical reference): Algeria Benin Burkina Faso Cameroon Chad C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire Egypt Eritrea Ethiopia Ghana Guinea Libya Mali Mauritania Niger Nigeria Saudi Arabia Senegal Sierra Leone Sudan Togo Tunisia Duration: 21 days Time span: January 20 2011 to February 09 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-january-20-2011-to-february-09-2011-at-22-5n-359-0e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from January 20 2011 to February 09 2011 at 22.5\u00b0N 359.0\u00b0E&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1924,2038,2040,2162,2093,2332,2138,1938,1956,2293,2348,1944,1926,1928,2042,2044,2115,1930,2385,1940,2346,2088,1925,2039,2041,2314,2094,2333,2414,2313,2232,2317,2349,2388,1927,1929,2043,2045,2116,2378,2386,2280,2347,2089,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-algeria","category-extremes-affecting-benin","category-extremes-affecting-burkina-faso","category-extremes-affecting-cameroon","category-extremes-affecting-chad","category-extremes-affecting-cote-divoire","category-extremes-affecting-egypt","category-extremes-affecting-eritrea","category-extremes-affecting-ethiopia","category-extremes-affecting-ghana","category-extremes-affecting-guinea","category-extremes-affecting-libya","category-extremes-affecting-mali","category-extremes-affecting-mauritania","category-extremes-affecting-niger","category-extremes-affecting-nigeria","category-extremes-affecting-saudi-arabia","category-extremes-affecting-senegal","category-extremes-affecting-sierra-leone","category-extremes-affecting-sudan","category-extremes-affecting-togo","category-extremes-affecting-tunisia","category-heat-waves-affecting-algeria","category-heat-waves-affecting-benin","category-heat-waves-affecting-burkina-faso","category-heat-waves-affecting-cameroon","category-heat-waves-affecting-chad","category-heat-waves-affecting-cote-divoire","category-heat-waves-affecting-egypt","category-heat-waves-affecting-eritrea","category-heat-waves-affecting-ethiopia","category-heat-waves-affecting-ghana","category-heat-waves-affecting-guinea","category-heat-waves-affecting-libya","category-heat-waves-affecting-mali","category-heat-waves-affecting-mauritania","category-heat-waves-affecting-niger","category-heat-waves-affecting-nigeria","category-heat-waves-affecting-saudi-arabia","category-heat-waves-affecting-senegal","category-heat-waves-affecting-sierra-leone","category-heat-waves-affecting-sudan","category-heat-waves-affecting-togo","category-heat-waves-affecting-tunisia","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=277392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}