Fig 1.
Study area (data source: https://srtm.csi.cgiar.org).
Fig 2.
Climatological mean of maximum temperature for the selected stations from 1995 to 2024.
Table 1.
Heatwave events chosen for the current study.
Table 2.
Grade of thermal stress corresponding to PET values [22].
Table 3.
WRF setup for the study.
Fig 3.
Boxplot of observed thermal stress condition.
Table 4.
RMSE of observed and WRF simulated temperature during selected heatwave events.
Fig 4.
Performance metric values for observed PET and WRF forecasted PET for selected heatwave events.
Fig 5.
WRF simulated temperature at 0900 UTC (1500 BST) during 24-29 April, 2021 at D9.
Fig 6.
WRF simulated temperature at 0900 UTC (1500 BST) during 24-29 April, 2021 at D8.
Fig 7.
WRF simulated temperature at 0900 UTC (1500 BST) during 24-29 April, 2021 at D7.
Fig 8.
WRF simulated temperature at 0900 UTC (1500 BST) during 24-29 April, 2021 at D6.
Fig 9.
WRF simulated temperature at 0900 UTC (1500 BST) during 24-29 April, 2021 at D5.
Fig 10.
Comparison of observed PET and PET using WRF forecasted day at D9.
Fig 11.
Performance metric (d) values for observed PET versus PET using WRF forecasted data at different lead times.