{"id":342252,"date":"2026-10-29T09:35:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T09:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-february-28-2014-to-march-12-2014-at-26-5n-44-5e\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T09:35:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T09:35:04","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-february-28-2014-to-march-12-2014-at-26-5n-44-5e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-february-28-2014-to-march-12-2014-at-26-5n-44-5e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from February 28 2014 to March 12 2014 at 26.5\u00b0N 44.5\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014-Feb-28_to_2014-Mar-12_44.5_26.5.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>Armenia<\/li>\n<li>Bahrain<\/li>\n<li>Central African Republic<\/li>\n<li>Chad<\/li>\n<li>Egypt<\/li>\n<li>Eritrea<\/li>\n<li>Iran<\/li>\n<li>Iraq<\/li>\n<li>Jordan<\/li>\n<li>Kuwait<\/li>\n<li>Libya<\/li>\n<li>Saudi Arabia<\/li>\n<li>South Sudan<\/li>\n<li>Sudan<\/li>\n<li>Syria<\/li>\n<li>Turkiye<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 13 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: February 28 2014 to March 12 2014<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 5.5 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 24.9 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 10.7 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 36.4 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 26.5\u00b0N 44.5\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 3721573 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2014-Feb-28_to_2014-Mar-12_44.5_26.5.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_2014-Feb-28_to_2014-Mar-12_44.5_26.5.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_2014-Feb-28_to_2014-Mar-12_44.5_26.5.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_2014-Feb-28_to_2014-Mar-12_44.5_26.5.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_2014-Feb-28_to_2014-Mar-12_44.5_26.5.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_2014-Feb-28_to_2014-Mar-12_44.5_26.5.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_2014-Feb-28_to_2014-Mar-12_44.5_26.5<\/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): Armenia Bahrain Central African Republic Chad Egypt Eritrea Iran Iraq Jordan Kuwait Libya Saudi Arabia South Sudan Sudan Syria Turkiye Duration: 13 days Time span: February 28 2014 to March 12 2014 Statistics over entire affected area: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-february-28-2014-to-march-12-2014-at-26-5n-44-5e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from February 28 2014 to March 12 2014 at 26.5\u00b0N 44.5\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":[2016,2205,2002,2093,2138,1938,1252,1988,2212,2113,1944,2115,1960,1940,2217,1992,2017,2328,2003,2094,2414,2313,2069,2112,2246,2114,2388,2116,2004,2280,2247,2024,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-armenia","category-extremes-affecting-bahrain","category-extremes-affecting-central-african-republic","category-extremes-affecting-chad","category-extremes-affecting-egypt","category-extremes-affecting-eritrea","category-extremes-affecting-iran-islamic-republic-of","category-extremes-affecting-iraq","category-extremes-affecting-jordan","category-extremes-affecting-kuwait","category-extremes-affecting-libya","category-extremes-affecting-saudi-arabia","category-extremes-affecting-south-sudan","category-extremes-affecting-sudan","category-extremes-affecting-syrian-arab-republic","category-extremes-affecting-turkiye","category-heat-waves-affecting-armenia","category-heat-waves-affecting-bahrain","category-heat-waves-affecting-central-african-republic","category-heat-waves-affecting-chad","category-heat-waves-affecting-egypt","category-heat-waves-affecting-eritrea","category-heat-waves-affecting-iran-islamic-republic-of","category-heat-waves-affecting-iraq","category-heat-waves-affecting-jordan","category-heat-waves-affecting-kuwait","category-heat-waves-affecting-libya","category-heat-waves-affecting-saudi-arabia","category-heat-waves-affecting-south-sudan","category-heat-waves-affecting-sudan","category-heat-waves-affecting-syrian-arab-republic","category-heat-waves-affecting-turkiye","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342252","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=342252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}