Hong Yin

TL;DR: The authors estimates anthropogenic influence to have caused a greater than 60-fold increase in the likelihood of extreme summer heat and projects that hot summers will continue to increase in frequency and five of the hottest summers have occurred since 2000.

TL;DR: In this paper, the anthropogenic influence on the intensity of temperature extremes in China is detected over the period 1958-2012 using the newest homogenized daily observation data set and multi-model simulations from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5).

TL;DR: This article used an optimal fingerprinting method to compare these temperature indices computed from a newly homogenized observational data set with those from simulations conducted with multiple climate models that participated in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5.

TL;DR: Anthropogenic influences are estimated to have reduced the likelihood of an extreme cold event in midwinter with the intensity equal to or stronger than the record of 2016 in eastern China by about two-thirds.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors reported that the 2015 summer (June-August) was the hottest in western China, setting new records for the regionally averaged seasonal mean temperature, annual maxima of daily maximum (TXx), and daily minimum (TNx) temperatures.