{"id":283201,"date":"2026-10-27T21:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T21:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-may-10-2011-to-may-27-2011-at-24-0n-51-5e\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T21:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T21:54:49","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-may-10-2011-to-may-27-2011-at-24-0n-51-5e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-may-10-2011-to-may-27-2011-at-24-0n-51-5e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from May 10 2011 to May 27 2011 at 24.0\u00b0N 51.5\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-May-10_to_2011-May-27_51.5_24.0.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>Afghanistan<\/li>\n<li>Bahrain<\/li>\n<li>China<\/li>\n<li>India<\/li>\n<li>Iran<\/li>\n<li>Kazakhstan<\/li>\n<li>Kyrgyzstan<\/li>\n<li>Oman<\/li>\n<li>Pakistan<\/li>\n<li>Qatar<\/li>\n<li>Saudi Arabia<\/li>\n<li>Tajikistan<\/li>\n<li>Turkmenistan<\/li>\n<li>United Arab Emirates<\/li>\n<li>Uzbekistan<\/li>\n<li>Yemen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 18 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: May 10 2011 to May 27 2011<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 4.4 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 30.0 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 9.6 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 41.1 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 24.0\u00b0N 51.5\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 4400328 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2011-May-10_to_2011-May-27_51.5_24.0.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-May-10_to_2011-May-27_51.5_24.0.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-May-10_to_2011-May-27_51.5_24.0.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-May-10_to_2011-May-27_51.5_24.0.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-May-10_to_2011-May-27_51.5_24.0.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-May-10_to_2011-May-27_51.5_24.0.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-May-10_to_2011-May-27_51.5_24.0<\/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): Afghanistan Bahrain China India Iran Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Oman Pakistan Qatar Saudi Arabia Tajikistan Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Yemen Duration: 18 days Time span: May 10 2011 to May 27 2011 Statistics over entire affected area: Mean &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-may-10-2011-to-may-27-2011-at-24-0n-51-5e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from May 10 2011 to May 27 2011 at 24.0\u00b0N 51.5\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":[2095,2205,1840,1900,1252,1978,2167,2178,2180,2329,2115,2171,2097,2220,2174,2106,2166,2328,1841,1901,2069,1979,2168,2292,2241,2330,2116,2172,2173,2331,2175,2164,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-afghanistan","category-extremes-affecting-bahrain","category-extremes-affecting-china","category-extremes-affecting-india","category-extremes-affecting-iran-islamic-republic-of","category-extremes-affecting-kazakhstan","category-extremes-affecting-kyrgyzstan","category-extremes-affecting-oman","category-extremes-affecting-pakistan","category-extremes-affecting-qatar","category-extremes-affecting-saudi-arabia","category-extremes-affecting-tajikistan","category-extremes-affecting-turkmenistan","category-extremes-affecting-united-arab-emirates","category-extremes-affecting-uzbekistan","category-extremes-affecting-yemen","category-heat-waves-affecting-afghanistan","category-heat-waves-affecting-bahrain","category-heat-waves-affecting-china","category-heat-waves-affecting-india","category-heat-waves-affecting-iran-islamic-republic-of","category-heat-waves-affecting-kazakhstan","category-heat-waves-affecting-kyrgyzstan","category-heat-waves-affecting-oman","category-heat-waves-affecting-pakistan","category-heat-waves-affecting-qatar","category-heat-waves-affecting-saudi-arabia","category-heat-waves-affecting-tajikistan","category-heat-waves-affecting-turkmenistan","category-heat-waves-affecting-united-arab-emirates","category-heat-waves-affecting-uzbekistan","category-heat-waves-affecting-yemen","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283201","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=283201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}