{"id":434135,"date":"2026-10-31T06:07:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T06:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-september-06-2017-to-september-22-2017-at-14-5n-348-0e\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T06:07:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T06:07:52","slug":"heat-wave-occuring-from-september-06-2017-to-september-22-2017-at-14-5n-348-0e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-september-06-2017-to-september-22-2017-at-14-5n-348-0e\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat wave occuring from September 06 2017 to September 22 2017 at 14.5\u00b0N 348.0\u00b0E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download data: <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-Sep-06_to_2017-Sep-22_348.0_14.5.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>Burkina Faso<\/li>\n<li>C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire<\/li>\n<li>Gambia<\/li>\n<li>Ghana<\/li>\n<li>Guinea<\/li>\n<li>Guinea-Bissau<\/li>\n<li>Liberia<\/li>\n<li>Mali<\/li>\n<li>Mauritania<\/li>\n<li>Senegal<\/li>\n<li>Sierra Leone<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duration: 17 days<\/p>\n<p>Time span: September 06 2017 to September 22 2017<\/p>\n<p>Statistics over entire affected area: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mean temperature anomaly: 1.6 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Mean temperature: 27.6 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature anomaly: 5.1 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Maximum temperature: 37.3 \u00b0C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event center: 14.5\u00b0N 348.0\u00b0E<\/p>\n<p>Area affected: 1596497 km$^2$<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/extreme_weather_anomaly_map_2017-Sep-06_to_2017-Sep-22_348.0_14.5.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_2017-Sep-06_to_2017-Sep-22_348.0_14.5.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_2017-Sep-06_to_2017-Sep-22_348.0_14.5.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_2017-Sep-06_to_2017-Sep-22_348.0_14.5.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_2017-Sep-06_to_2017-Sep-22_348.0_14.5.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_2017-Sep-06_to_2017-Sep-22_348.0_14.5.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_2017-Sep-06_to_2017-Sep-22_348.0_14.5<\/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): Burkina Faso C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Mauritania Senegal Sierra Leone Duration: 17 days Time span: September 06 2017 to September 22 2017 Statistics over entire affected area: Mean temperature anomaly: 1.6 \u00b0C Mean &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/heat-wave-occuring-from-september-06-2017-to-september-22-2017-at-14-5n-348-0e\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heat wave occuring from September 06 2017 to September 22 2017 at 14.5\u00b0N 348.0\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":[2040,2332,2374,2293,2348,2376,2395,1926,1928,1930,2385,2041,2333,2375,2317,2349,2377,2396,1927,1929,2378,2386,744],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extremes-affecting-burkina-faso","category-extremes-affecting-cote-divoire","category-extremes-affecting-gambia","category-extremes-affecting-ghana","category-extremes-affecting-guinea","category-extremes-affecting-guinea-bissau","category-extremes-affecting-liberia","category-extremes-affecting-mali","category-extremes-affecting-mauritania","category-extremes-affecting-senegal","category-extremes-affecting-sierra-leone","category-heat-waves-affecting-burkina-faso","category-heat-waves-affecting-cote-divoire","category-heat-waves-affecting-gambia","category-heat-waves-affecting-ghana","category-heat-waves-affecting-guinea","category-heat-waves-affecting-guinea-bissau","category-heat-waves-affecting-liberia","category-heat-waves-affecting-mali","category-heat-waves-affecting-mauritania","category-heat-waves-affecting-senegal","category-heat-waves-affecting-sierra-leone","category-weather-extremes-all-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434135","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=434135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wexa.jamstec.go.jp\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}