NEW DELHI: At coastal locations globally, heatwaves accompanied by an extreme sea level rise in the short-term have significantly increased between 1998 and 2017, with the tropics seeing a “pronounced increase”, according to new research.
Hot and humid conditions in the tropics could be associated with the increased occurrences of such ‘Concurrent Heatwave and Extreme Sea Level’, or a CHWESL, event, as these regions are also found to be at a higher risk of such events, researchers hypothesised.
Such events could be made up to five times likelier by 2049 if carbon emissions globally continued at the current rate, they said.
