During the summer of 2022,a parade of extremes,including heatwaves,droughts,forest fires,and heavy rainfall hit the Sichuan-Chongqing region(SCR),Southwest China(Fig.S1 online),resulting in rippling socioeconomic and ...During the summer of 2022,a parade of extremes,including heatwaves,droughts,forest fires,and heavy rainfall hit the Sichuan-Chongqing region(SCR),Southwest China(Fig.S1 online),resulting in rippling socioeconomic and environmental impacts(Fig.1).Though none of these events are uncommon to the region,their combination in such a daisy-chained fashion is unusual.Here,taking a compound event perspective,we thoroughly reviewed the unfolding of such cascading hazards,and sorted out the pathway of their impacts multiplying.This analysis unmasks previously underestimated and underappreciated vulnerability of multiple critical sectors in the energy-food-water-ecology nexus to increasingly connected extremes.Several key steps are finally outlined with the aim of improving our coping capabilities against impending spatiotemporally compound hazards.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(42271024)the Science&Technology Development Funding of Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences(2023KJ015)。
文摘During the summer of 2022,a parade of extremes,including heatwaves,droughts,forest fires,and heavy rainfall hit the Sichuan-Chongqing region(SCR),Southwest China(Fig.S1 online),resulting in rippling socioeconomic and environmental impacts(Fig.1).Though none of these events are uncommon to the region,their combination in such a daisy-chained fashion is unusual.Here,taking a compound event perspective,we thoroughly reviewed the unfolding of such cascading hazards,and sorted out the pathway of their impacts multiplying.This analysis unmasks previously underestimated and underappreciated vulnerability of multiple critical sectors in the energy-food-water-ecology nexus to increasingly connected extremes.Several key steps are finally outlined with the aim of improving our coping capabilities against impending spatiotemporally compound hazards.
