{"id":374585,"date":"2026-10-30T01:09:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T01:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-april-27-2015-to-august-11-2015-at-28-5n-157-0e\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T01:09:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T01:09:48","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-april-27-2015-to-august-11-2015-at-28-5n-157-0e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-april-27-2015-to-august-11-2015-at-28-5n-157-0e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from April 27 2015 to August 11 2015 at 28.5\u00b0N 157.0\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015-Apr-27_to_2015-Aug-11_157.0_28.5.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>Bangladesh<\/li>\n<li>Cambodia<\/li>\n<li>China<\/li>\n<li>India<\/li>\n<li>Japan<\/li>\n<li>Laos<\/li>\n<li>Myanmar<\/li>\n<li>Philippines<\/li>\n<li>Russian Federation<\/li>\n<li>Thailand<\/li>\n<li>Vietnam<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 107 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: April 27 2015 to August 11 2015<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 2.0 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 25.9 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 8.0 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 37.1 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 28.5\u00b0N 157.0\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 16631918 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2015-Apr-27_to_2015-Aug-11_157.0_28.5.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-27_to_2015-Aug-11_157.0_28.5.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-27_to_2015-Aug-11_157.0_28.5.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-27_to_2015-Aug-11_157.0_28.5.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-27_to_2015-Aug-11_157.0_28.5.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-27_to_2015-Aug-11_157.0_28.5.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-27_to_2015-Aug-11_157.0_28.5<\/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): Bangladesh Cambodia China India Japan Laos Myanmar Philippines Russian Federation Thailand Vietnam Duration: 107 days Time span: April 27 2015 to August 11 2015 Statistics over entire affected area: Mean temperature anomaly: 2.0 \u00b0C Mean temperature: 25.9 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-april-27-2015-to-august-11-2015-at-28-5n-157-0e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from April 27 2015 to August 11 2015 at 28.5\u00b0N 157.0\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":[1985,2222,1840,1900,1932,2529,1948,2191,1842,2125,2531,2099,2223,1841,1901,1933,2533,2037,2192,1843,2202,2534,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-bangladesh","category-extremes-affecting-cambodia","category-extremes-affecting-china","category-extremes-affecting-india","category-extremes-affecting-japan","category-extremes-affecting-laos","category-extremes-affecting-myanmar","category-extremes-affecting-philippines","category-extremes-affecting-russian-federation","category-extremes-affecting-thailand","category-extremes-affecting-vietnam","category-heat-waves-affecting-bangladesh","category-heat-waves-affecting-cambodia","category-heat-waves-affecting-china","category-heat-waves-affecting-india","category-heat-waves-affecting-japan","category-heat-waves-affecting-laos","category-heat-waves-affecting-myanmar","category-heat-waves-affecting-philippines","category-heat-waves-affecting-russian-federation","category-heat-waves-affecting-thailand","category-heat-waves-affecting-vietnam","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374585","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=374585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}