Storms Archives - Climate Attribution

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 →

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 →

Deadly Weather: The Human Cost of 2018’s Climate Disasters — Visual Guide

Published:December 2018

Author(s):Daniel Levitt, Peter Andringa, Frank Hulley-Jones, Lydia Smears, Jonathan Watts

Publisher:The Guardian

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

Published:May 2018

Author(s):Kevin E. Trenberth, Lijing Cheng, Peter Jacobs, Yongxin Zhang, John Fasullo

Publisher:Earth's Future

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

Published:April 2018

Author(s):S-Y Simon Wang, Lin Zhao, Jin-Ho Yoon, Phil Klotzbach, Robert R Gillies

Publisher:Environmental Research Letters

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

Published:April 2018

Author(s):S-Y Simon Wang, Lin Zhao, Jin-Ho Yoon, Phil Klotzbach, Robert R Gillies

Publisher:IOPscience

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 →

Attribution of Extreme Rainfall from Hurricane Harvey

Published:January 2018

Author(s):Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Karin van der Wiel, Antonia Sebastian, Roop Singh, Julie Arrighi, Friederike Otto, Karsten Haustein, Sihan Li, Gabriel Vecchi, Heidi Cullen

Publisher:Environmental Research Letters

This report explores Hurricane Harvey, a positive trend in the intensity of extreme precipitation, global warming, and flood protection in Houston. Read More →

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