Oral Session 3: Physical Drivers and Projections 

Extreme Heat Workshop
July 10-12, 2024 - Day 2
Opening Remarks, Somini Sengupta, New York Times
Session Chair: James Doss-Gollin, Rice University
- Compound threats from humid heat and storm systems: Assessment and process understanding - Colin Raymond, UCLA
- Convective Constraints on Heat Extremes - Yi Zhang, New York University
- From atmospheric waves to heatwaves - connecting atmospheric waviness to surface heat extremes - Rachel White, University of British Columbia
- Identifying and disentangling causal drivers of heat extremes - Yinglin Tian, Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact
- The Role of Moisture Transport in the Development of North American Summertime Heatwaves in High-resolution Climate Model Simulations - Mingyu Park, Princeton University
- Contribution of land-atmosphere coupling in 2022 CONUS compound drought-heatwave events and implications for forecasting - Donghyuck Yoon, Princeton University
- The Future of Persistent High Impact Blocks - Eylon Vakrat, University of Toronto
- Measuring and Modeling Physiologically Relevant Urban Heat - TC Chakraborty, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory