Simulated heatwave characteristics in the recent climate and at different global warming levels

Simulated heatwave characteristics in the recent climate and at different global warming levels: a multi model analysis at the global scale. All datasets are used for plotting figure in the paper. And the plotting NCL scripts are in plot_scripts folder. Key points: • Several properties of heatwaves (HWs) are analyzed at the regional and global scales by using observations and simulations for recent and future time periods. • For a given global warming level, the intensification of future HWs is strongly model dependent and modulated at the regional scale. • The largest increase in HW duration/frequency (magnitude) is found over Amazonia and the Arabian Peninsula (northern mid-latitudes).