{"id":372662,"date":"2026-10-30T00:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T00:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-april-03-2015-to-april-25-2015-at-23-5n-68-5e\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T00:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T00:19:17","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-april-03-2015-to-april-25-2015-at-23-5n-68-5e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-april-03-2015-to-april-25-2015-at-23-5n-68-5e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from April 03 2015 to April 25 2015 at 23.5\u00b0N 68.5\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015-Apr-03_to_2015-Apr-25_68.5_23.5.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>Afghanistan<\/li>\n<li>Armenia<\/li>\n<li>Azerbaijan<\/li>\n<li>Bahrain<\/li>\n<li>India<\/li>\n<li>Iran<\/li>\n<li>Iraq<\/li>\n<li>Kuwait<\/li>\n<li>Oman<\/li>\n<li>Pakistan<\/li>\n<li>Qatar<\/li>\n<li>Saudi Arabia<\/li>\n<li>Turkiye<\/li>\n<li>United Arab Emirates<\/li>\n<li>Yemen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 23 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: April 03 2015 to April 25 2015<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 4.0 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 27.8 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 10.3 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 37.3 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 23.5\u00b0N 68.5\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 3982820 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2015-Apr-03_to_2015-Apr-25_68.5_23.5.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_2015-Apr-03_to_2015-Apr-25_68.5_23.5.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_2015-Apr-03_to_2015-Apr-25_68.5_23.5.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_2015-Apr-03_to_2015-Apr-25_68.5_23.5.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_2015-Apr-03_to_2015-Apr-25_68.5_23.5.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_2015-Apr-03_to_2015-Apr-25_68.5_23.5.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_2015-Apr-03_to_2015-Apr-25_68.5_23.5<\/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): Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain India Iran Iraq Kuwait Oman Pakistan Qatar Saudi Arabia Turkiye United Arab Emirates Yemen Duration: 23 days Time span: April 03 2015 to April 25 2015 Statistics over entire affected area: Mean temperature &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-april-03-2015-to-april-25-2015-at-23-5n-68-5e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from April 03 2015 to April 25 2015 at 23.5\u00b0N 68.5\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":[2095,2016,2018,2205,1900,1252,1988,2113,2178,2180,2329,2115,1992,2220,2106,2166,2017,2019,2328,1901,2069,2112,2114,2292,2241,2330,2116,2024,2331,2164,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-afghanistan","category-extremes-affecting-armenia","category-extremes-affecting-azerbaijan","category-extremes-affecting-bahrain","category-extremes-affecting-india","category-extremes-affecting-iran-islamic-republic-of","category-extremes-affecting-iraq","category-extremes-affecting-kuwait","category-extremes-affecting-oman","category-extremes-affecting-pakistan","category-extremes-affecting-qatar","category-extremes-affecting-saudi-arabia","category-extremes-affecting-turkiye","category-extremes-affecting-united-arab-emirates","category-extremes-affecting-yemen","category-heat-waves-affecting-afghanistan","category-heat-waves-affecting-armenia","category-heat-waves-affecting-azerbaijan","category-heat-waves-affecting-bahrain","category-heat-waves-affecting-india","category-heat-waves-affecting-iran-islamic-republic-of","category-heat-waves-affecting-iraq","category-heat-waves-affecting-kuwait","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-turkiye","category-heat-waves-affecting-united-arab-emirates","category-heat-waves-affecting-yemen","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372662","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=372662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}