Anthropogenic influence on extreme precipitation over global land areas seen in multiple observational datasets
Climate change is rendering hurricanes, monsoons and other extreme events more destructive all over the world. Read More →
Change in the Occurrence Frequency of Landfalling and Non-Landfalling Tropical Cyclones over the Northwest Pacific
Results indicate that the super Tropical Cyclones have been more likely to make landfall in the northwest Pacific since 1980.Read More →
Press Release: 16 Million Children Affected by Massive Flooding in South Asia, with Millions More at Risk
This article describes how monsoon rains and catastrophic flooding in Nepal, India, and Bangladesh left 16 million children and their families were in urgent need of life-saving support. Read More →
Forecasted attribution of the human influence on Hurricane Florence
Advance forecasted conditional attribution statements, using a numerical model, were made about the anthropogenic climate change influence on an individual tropical cyclone, Hurricane Florence.Read More →
Normalized US hurricane damage estimates using area of total destruction, 1900−2018
This article finds an emergent positive trend in hurricane damage, which is attributed to a detectable change in extreme storms due to global warming.Read More →
Recent increase in catastrophic tropical cyclone flooding in coastal North Carolina, USA: Long-term observations suggest a regime shift
Examination of continuous rainfall records for coastal NC since 1898 reveals a trend toward increasingly high precipitation associated with tropical cyclones over the last 120 yearsRead More →
Deadly Weather: The Human Cost of 2018’s Climate Disasters — Visual Guide
This article describes the climate disasters that the world experienced in 2018 by month, including extreme temperatures in Europe, drought in Argentina, flooding in India, and hurricanes and wildfires in the United States.Read More →
Hurricane Harvey Links to Ocean Heat Content and Climate Change Adaptation
This article uses ocean and atmosphere observations to demonstrate links between increased upper ocean heat content due to global warming with the extreme rainfalls from recent hurricanes.Read More →
Quantitative Attribution of Climate Effects on Hurricane Harvey’s Extreme Rainfall in Texas
This study suggests that post-1980 climate warming could have contributed to the extreme precipitation of Hurricane Harvey. Read More →
Quantitative attribution of climate effects on Hurricane Harvey’s extreme rainfall in Texas
The 60 member ensemble simulations suggest that post-1980 climate warming could have contributed to the extreme precipitation that fell on southeast Texas during 26–29 August 2017 by approximately 20%.Read More →