RT Journal Article T1 The exceptional Iberian heatwave of summer 2018 A1 Barriopedro Cepero, David A1 Sousa, P.M. A1 Trigo, R. M. A1 García Herrera, Ricardo Francisco A1 Ramos, A.M. AB August 2018 saw the warmest Iberian heatwave since that of 2003. Recent climate change has exacerbated this event making it at least »1°C warmer than similar events since 1950–83. PB American Meteorological Society SN 0003-0007 YR 2020 FD 2020-01 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/6287 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/6287 LA eng NO © 2020 American Meteorological Society. We acknowledge the E-OBS dataset from http://www.uerra.eu (EU-FP6), the Copernicus Climate Change Service, the data providers in ECA&D (https://www.ecad.eu), IPMA, the GISTEMP Team 2019 dataset (data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/) and J. Luterbacher for providing the proxy-based reconstruction. Energy data were retrieved from https://demanda.ree.es/ and http://www.centrodeinformacao.ren.pt. AMR, PMS, and RMT were supported by project IMDROFLOOD (Improving Drought and Flood Early Warning, Forecasting and Mitigation using real-time hydroclimatic indicators; WaterJPI/0004/2014) through Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal. AMR was also supported by the Scientific Employment Stimulus 2017 from FCT (CEECIND/00027/2017). We thank three reviewers for their comments. NO Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal NO Scientific Employment Stimulus 2017 from FCT DS Docta Complutense RD 12 abr 2025