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 →
Detection of a Climate Change Signal in Extreme Heat, Heat Stress, and Cold in Europe From Observations
This study connects climate change with increases in extreme heat and decreases in extreme cold across Europe.Read More →
Wildfires Rage Across Europe as Countries Battle Intense Heat Wave
This article describes the heatwave in Europe in summer 2018, and its devastating effects as wildfires have scorched large swaths of land in dozens of countries.Read More →
Heat Records Fall in the Arctic as Fires Erupt in Sweden and Siberia
This article describes the devastating wildfires in Scandinavia and Siberia in summer 2018 due to an unprecedented heatwave that swept across the Arctic Circle.Read More →
Attribution of wintertime anticyclonic stagnation contributing to air pollution in Western Europe
Climate simulations suggest a potential increase in frequency of stagnant wintertime conditions that prevailed over northwestern Europe in December 2016: it is significant in one multimodel ensemble but not in two single-model ensembles.Read More →
The Role of Anthropogenic Warming in 2015 Central European Heat Waves
This article describes the results from station-based observations and bias-corrected model simulations, which show that the frequency of short-term heat waves in central Europe has increased.Read More →
A multiregion model evaluation and attribution study of historical changes in the area affected by temperature and precipitation extremes
Using simulations performed under different radiative forcing scenarios, a clear anthropogenic signal is found in the trends in the maximum and minimum temperature components for multiple regions.Read More →
Attributing Human Mortality During Extreme Heat Waves to Anthropogenic Climate Change
This study quantifies the role of human activity on climate and heat-related mortality in an event attribution framework, analyzing both the Europe-wide temperature response in 2003, and localized responses over London and Paris.Read More →
Extreme Fall 2014 Precipitation in the Cévennes Mountains
This study investigates trends in the fall seasonal maximum of daily precipitation in the Cévennes mountain range, where the highest daily precipitation amount is found in France in the fall. Read More →
The Role of the Selection Problem and Non-Gaussianity in Attribution of Single Events to Climate Change
This study explores the methodological issues connected to the selection problem and deviations from Gaussianity that should be considered before comprehensive climate models are invoked.Read More →