Global Archives - Climate Attribution

The effect of rainfall changes on economic production

Published:January 2022

Author(s):Maximilian Kotz, Anders Levermann, & Leonie Wenz

Publisher:Nature

This study assesses the distribution of rainfall at multiple timescales and the effects on different sectors in order to uncover channels through which climatic conditions can affect the economy.Read More →

Another Record: Ocean Warming Continues through 2021 despite La Niña Conditions

Published:January 2022

Author(s):Lijing Cheng, John Abraham, Kevin E. Trenberth, John Fasullo, Tim Boyer, Michael E. Mann, Jiang Zhu, Fan Wang, Ricardo Locarnini, Yuanlong Li, Bin Zhang, Zhetao Tan, Fujiang Yu, Liying Wan, Xingrong Chen, Xiangzhou Song, Yulong Liu, Franco Reseghetti, Simona Simoncelli, Viktor Gouretski, Gengxin Chen, Alexey Mishonov & Jim Reagan

Publisher:Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

This study finds that the world ocean, in 2021, was the hottest ever recorded by humans.Read More →

Another Record: Ocean Warming Continues through 2021 despite La Niña Conditions

Published:January 2022

Publisher:Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

This study analyses recent ocean heat content changes through 2021. Read More →

Poleward expansion of tropical cyclone latitudes in warming climates

Published:December 2021

Author(s):Joshua Studholme, Alexey V. Fedorov, Sergey K. Gulev, Kerry Emanuel, & Kevin Hodges

Publisher:Nature Geoscience

This study concludes that twenty-first century tropical cyclones will most probably occupy a broader range of latitudes than those of the past 3 million years.Read More →

Increased labor losses and decreased adaptation potential in a warmer world

Published:December 2021

Author(s):Luke A. Parsons, Drew Shindell, Michelle Tigchelaar, Yuqiang Zhang, & June T. Spector

Publisher:Nature Communications

This study examines the effect of global warming on labor and potential adaptations.Read More →

Atlantic tropical cyclones downscaled from climate reanalyses show increasing activity over past 150 years

Published:December 2021

Author(s):Kerry Emanuel

Publisher:Nature Communications

This study uses a tropical cyclone downscaling model to show increasing tropical cyclone activity.Read More →

Observing, Measuring, and Assessing the Consequences of Snow Drought

Published:November 2021

Author(s):Alexander R. Gottlieb and Justin S. Mankin

Publisher:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

This study evaluates the scientific challenges and uncertainties arising from differences in defining and measuring snow droughts.Read More →

Globally resolved surface temperatures since the Last Glacial Maximum

Published:November 2021

Author(s):Matthew B. Osman, Jessica E. Tierney, Jiang Zhu, Robert Tardif, Gregory J. Hakim, Jonathan King, & Christopher J. Poulsen

Publisher:Nature

This study assesses drivers of temperature variability over the last 24 thousand years.Read More →

Future Global Convective Environments in CMIP6 Models

Published:November 2021

Author(s):Chiara Lepore, Ryan Abernathey, Naomi Henderson, John T. Allen, Michael K. Tippett

Publisher:Earth's Future

This study shows how severe weather proxies change as a function of global temperature increase.Read More →

Pre- and post-production processes along supply chains increasingly dominate GHG emissions from agri-food systems globally and in most countries

Published:November 2021

Author(s):Francesco N. Tubiello, Kevin Karl, Alessandro Flammini, Johannes Gütschow, Griffiths Obli-Layrea, Giulia Conchedda, Xueyao Pan, Sally Yue Qi, Hörn Halldórudóttir Heiðarsdóttir, Nathan Wanner, Roberta Quadrelli, Leonardo Rocha Souza, Philippe Benoit, Matthew Hayek, David Sandalow, Erik Mencos-Contreras, Cynthia Rosenzweig, Jose Rosero Moncayo, Piero Conforti, and Maximo Torero

Publisher:Earth System Science Data

This study assesses greenhouse gas emissions from global and national agri-food systems.Read More →