{"id":323594,"date":"2026-10-28T21:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T21:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-march-30-2013-to-april-16-2013-at-44-0n-40-5e\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T21:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T21:46:11","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-march-30-2013-to-april-16-2013-at-44-0n-40-5e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-march-30-2013-to-april-16-2013-at-44-0n-40-5e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from March 30 2013 to April 16 2013 at 44.0\u00b0N 40.5\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013-Mar-30_to_2013-Apr-16_40.5_44.0.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>Armenia<\/li>\n<li>Azerbaijan<\/li>\n<li>China<\/li>\n<li>Georgia<\/li>\n<li>Iran<\/li>\n<li>Iraq<\/li>\n<li>Kazakhstan<\/li>\n<li>Kyrgyzstan<\/li>\n<li>Mongolia<\/li>\n<li>Russian Federation<\/li>\n<li>Syria<\/li>\n<li>Tajikistan<\/li>\n<li>Turkiye<\/li>\n<li>Turkmenistan<\/li>\n<li>Ukraine<\/li>\n<li>Uzbekistan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 18 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: March 30 2013 to April 16 2013<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 7.3 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 14.6 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 14.5 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 28.6 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 44.0\u00b0N 40.5\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 6469717 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2013-Mar-30_to_2013-Apr-16_40.5_44.0.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_2013-Mar-30_to_2013-Apr-16_40.5_44.0.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_2013-Mar-30_to_2013-Apr-16_40.5_44.0.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_2013-Mar-30_to_2013-Apr-16_40.5_44.0.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_2013-Mar-30_to_2013-Apr-16_40.5_44.0.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_2013-Mar-30_to_2013-Apr-16_40.5_44.0.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_2013-Mar-30_to_2013-Apr-16_40.5_44.0<\/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 Armenia Azerbaijan China Georgia Iran Iraq Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Mongolia Russian Federation Syria Tajikistan Turkiye Turkmenistan Ukraine Uzbekistan Duration: 18 days Time span: March 30 2013 to April 16 2013 Statistics over entire affected area: Mean temperature &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-march-30-2013-to-april-16-2013-at-44-0n-40-5e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from March 30 2013 to April 16 2013 at 44.0\u00b0N 40.5\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":[2095,2016,2018,1840,2020,1252,1988,1978,2167,2032,1842,2217,2171,1992,2097,2025,2174,2166,2017,2019,1841,2021,2069,2112,1979,2168,2033,1843,2247,2172,2024,2173,2026,2175,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-afghanistan","category-extremes-affecting-armenia","category-extremes-affecting-azerbaijan","category-extremes-affecting-china","category-extremes-affecting-georgia","category-extremes-affecting-iran-islamic-republic-of","category-extremes-affecting-iraq","category-extremes-affecting-kazakhstan","category-extremes-affecting-kyrgyzstan","category-extremes-affecting-mongolia","category-extremes-affecting-russian-federation","category-extremes-affecting-syrian-arab-republic","category-extremes-affecting-tajikistan","category-extremes-affecting-turkiye","category-extremes-affecting-turkmenistan","category-extremes-affecting-ukraine","category-extremes-affecting-uzbekistan","category-heat-waves-affecting-afghanistan","category-heat-waves-affecting-armenia","category-heat-waves-affecting-azerbaijan","category-heat-waves-affecting-china","category-heat-waves-affecting-georgia","category-heat-waves-affecting-iran-islamic-republic-of","category-heat-waves-affecting-iraq","category-heat-waves-affecting-kazakhstan","category-heat-waves-affecting-kyrgyzstan","category-heat-waves-affecting-mongolia","category-heat-waves-affecting-russian-federation","category-heat-waves-affecting-syrian-arab-republic","category-heat-waves-affecting-tajikistan","category-heat-waves-affecting-turkiye","category-heat-waves-affecting-turkmenistan","category-heat-waves-affecting-ukraine","category-heat-waves-affecting-uzbekistan","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323594","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=323594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}