Figure 3.
The map highlights global regions with numbered markers indicating cities across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. North America includes several marked locations in the United States and Canada. Europe shows multiple city markers spread across the western, central, and southern regions. Asia includes numbered cities in China, India, and surrounding areas. Australia shows one marked city. A scale below indicates the number of cities, ranging from two to fourteen, based on spatial data sources from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Microsoft, NavInfo, Open Places, OpenStreetMap, TomTom, Wikipedia, and Zenrin.Selected world cities and localities hit by temperatures over 40°C (see Tables 2 and 3)
Notes(s): (data from Adnan et al., 2022; Broadbent et al., 2022; Nandi and Swain, 2023; Marvuglia et al., 2020; Nishant et al., 2022; Sharma et al., 2022; Sethi et al., 2021; Shen et al., 2022; Yang et al., 2019; Yin et al, 2018). Basemap (by Bing Technologies, © Microsoft) cumulatively plots the list in Table 1
Source(s): Figure by the authors