WMO Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes (1970–2019)
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
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 →
Limiting global warming to 1.5º C will lower increases in inequalities of four hazard indicators of climate change
This peer-reviewed study uses climate modeling and socioeconomic indexes to predict the impact of extreme events under 1.5º C and 2º C of warming, especially their impact on least developed countries.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 →
Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change Assessment Part I: Detection and Attribution
This paper reviews the detection and attribution of changes in tropical cyclone activity due to climate change. It examines how developments in science have advanced understanding of tropical cyclone activity under changing climatic conditions. 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 →