Paper about "A heat wave measurement toolkit based on Google Earth Engine" published

Zhang, M., Yang, X., Cleverly, J., Huete, A., Zhang, H., & Yu, Q. (2022). Heat wave tracker: A multi-method, multi-source heat wave measurement toolkit based on Google Earth Engine. Environmental Modelling & Software, 147, 105255.

Extreme heat waves have devastating impacts on both terrestrial and marine ecosystems. A multi-characteristic heat wave framework is used to estimate historical and future projected heat waves across Australia. A Google Earth Engine-based toolkit named heat wave tracker (HWT) is developed, which can be used for dynamic visualization, extraction, and processing of complex heat wave events.

Highlights

• Heat Wave Tracker toolkit to process and extract heat wave records from multi-source climate datasets.
• Nine extreme heat wave datasets in Australia were generated for extreme heat wave value analysis.
• The characteristics of extreme heat wave events in Australia over the past 100 years were analysed
• We analysed how the characteristics of heat waves would change across Australia under future climates