Attribution of extreme weather and climate‐related events
Met Office · University of Oxford · +7 more institutions
Abstract
Extreme weather and climate‐related events occur in a particular place, by definition, infrequently. It is therefore challenging to detect systematic changes in their occurrence given the relative shortness of observational records. However, there is a clear interest from outside the climate science community in the extent to which recent damaging extreme events can be linked to human‐induced climate change or natural climate variability. Event attribution studies seek to determine to what extent anthropogenic climate change has altered the probability or magnitude of particular events. They have shown clear evidence for human influence having increased the probability of many extremely warm seasonal…
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11Topics & keywords
- Attribution
- Climate change
- Extreme weather
- Event (particle physics)
- Climatology
- Environmental science
- Geography
- Environmental resource management
- Climate action