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The Decade of Attribution Science

December 2019
Jane C. Hu
Slate
This article provides an introduction to attribution science, exploring how climate change's role in extreme weather events and how the new field is shaping policy and litigation attempting to deal with climate change.Read More →

Explaining Extreme Events from a Climate Perspective

January 2018
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS)
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS)
This BAMS special report presents assessments of how human-caused climate change may have affected the strength and likelihood of individual extreme events, presenting peer-reviewed analyses of extreme weather events across the world in 2018. Read More →

Anthropogenic Intensification of Southern African Flash Droughts as Exemplified by the 2015/16 Season

January 2018
Xing Yuan, Linying Wang, Eric F. Wood
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Flash drought over southern Africa was tripled during the last 60 years mainly due to anthropogenic climate change, and it was intensified during 2015/16 in the midst of heat waves.Read More →

Influence of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Planetary Wave Resonance and Extreme Weather Events

March 2017
Michael E. Mann, Stefan Rahmstorf, Kai Kornhuber, Byron A. Steinman, Sonya K. Miller, Dim Coumou
Scientific Reports
This study uses climate models and observational surface temperature datasets to demonstrate an increase in the projection for a fingerprint in the zonal mean surface temperature profile that is associated with QRA-favorable conditions. Read More →

Attribution of Extreme Weather Events in the Context of Climate Change

January 2016
Committee on Extreme Weather Events and Climate Change Attribution, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
This report examines the science of attribution of specific extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability by reviewing current understanding and capabilities. Read More →

The Absence of a Role of Climate Change in the 2011 Thailand Floods

July 2012
Thomas C. Peterson, Peter A. Stott, Stephanie Herring
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Using a variety of methodologies, six extreme events of the previous year are explained from a climate perspective.Read More →

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