Storms Archives - Climate Attribution

Assessment of Historic and Future Trends of Extreme Weather in Texas, 1900-2036

Published:October 2021

Author(s):John Nielsen-Gammon, Sara Holman, Austin Buley, Savannah Jorgensen

Publisher:Texas A&M University Office of the Texas State Climatologist

This report analyzes historic observations of temperature, precipitation, and extreme weather in Texas and identifies ongoing and likely future trends out to the year 2036.Read More →

Double benefit of limiting global warming for tropical cyclone exposure

Published:September 2021

Author(s):Tobias Geiger, Johannes Gütschow, David N. Bresch, Kerry Emanuel, and Katja Frieler

Publisher:Nature Climate Change

This study quantifies country-level population exposure to tropical cyclone winds for different magnitudes of global mean surface temperature increase and future population distributions.Read More →

Anthropogenic influence on extreme precipitation over global land areas seen in multiple observational datasets

Published:July 2021

Author(s):Gavin D. Madakumbura, Chad W. Thackeray, Jesse Norris, Naomi Goldenson & Alex Hall

Publisher:Nature Communications

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

Published:March 2021

Author(s):Mingzhong Xiao

Publisher:American Meteorological Society

Results indicate that the super Tropical Cyclones have been more likely to make landfall in the northwest Pacific since 1980.Read More →

State of the Climate in Africa 2020

Published:January 2021

Author(s):World Meteorological Organization

Publisher:World Meteorological Organization

This report summarizes climate trends, observed high-impact events, and associated risks and impacts on key sensitive sectors in Africa during the year 2020.Read More →

WMO Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes (1970–2019)

Published:January 2021

Author(s):World Meteorological Organization

Publisher:World Meteorological Organization

An overview of impacts from weather, climate, and water extremes globally from 1970 to 2019, with a section on climate change attribution.Read More →

Press Release: 16 Million Children Affected by Massive Flooding in South Asia, with Millions More at Risk

Published:September 2020

Author(s):United Nations International Children's Fund

Publisher:United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF)

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

Published:January 2020

Author(s):K. A Reed, A. M. Stansfield, M. F. Wehner, C. M. Zarzycki

Publisher:Science Advances

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

Published:November 2019

Author(s):Aslak Grinsted, Peter Ditlevsen, Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen

Publisher:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

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

Published:July 2019

Author(s):Hans W. Paerl, Nathan S. Hall, Alexandria G. Hounshell, Richard A. Luettich Jr., Karen L. Rossignol, Christopher L. Osburn, Jerad Bales

Publisher:Nature

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 →

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