{"id":383698,"date":"2026-10-30T05:07:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T05:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-august-05-2015-to-august-23-2015-at-40-0n-41-0e\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T05:07:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T05:07:03","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-august-05-2015-to-august-23-2015-at-40-0n-41-0e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-august-05-2015-to-august-23-2015-at-40-0n-41-0e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from August 05 2015 to August 23 2015 at 40.0\u00b0N 41.0\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015-Aug-05_to_2015-Aug-23_41.0_40.0.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>Pakistan<\/li>\n<li>Russian Federation<\/li>\n<li>Tajikistan<\/li>\n<li>Turkiye<\/li>\n<li>Turkmenistan<\/li>\n<li>Uzbekistan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 19 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: August 05 2015 to August 23 2015<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 3.7 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 27.0 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 9.8 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 39.0 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 40.0\u00b0N 41.0\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 1791538 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2015-Aug-05_to_2015-Aug-23_41.0_40.0.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_2015-Aug-05_to_2015-Aug-23_41.0_40.0.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_2015-Aug-05_to_2015-Aug-23_41.0_40.0.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_2015-Aug-05_to_2015-Aug-23_41.0_40.0.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_2015-Aug-05_to_2015-Aug-23_41.0_40.0.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_2015-Aug-05_to_2015-Aug-23_41.0_40.0.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_2015-Aug-05_to_2015-Aug-23_41.0_40.0<\/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 Pakistan Russian Federation Tajikistan Turkiye Turkmenistan Uzbekistan Duration: 19 days Time span: August 05 2015 to August 23 2015 Statistics over entire affected area: Mean temperature anomaly: 3.7 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-august-05-2015-to-august-23-2015-at-40-0n-41-0e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from August 05 2015 to August 23 2015 at 40.0\u00b0N 41.0\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":[2095,2016,2018,1840,2020,1252,1988,1978,2167,2180,1842,2171,1992,2097,2174,2166,2017,2019,1841,2021,2069,2112,1979,2168,2241,1843,2172,2024,2173,2175,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383698","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-pakistan","category-extremes-affecting-russian-federation","category-extremes-affecting-tajikistan","category-extremes-affecting-turkiye","category-extremes-affecting-turkmenistan","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-pakistan","category-heat-waves-affecting-russian-federation","category-heat-waves-affecting-tajikistan","category-heat-waves-affecting-turkiye","category-heat-waves-affecting-turkmenistan","category-heat-waves-affecting-uzbekistan","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383698","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=383698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}