Climate Attribution

Increased U.S. Coastal Hurricane Risk under Climate Change

April 2023
Karthik Balaguru, Wenwei Xu, Chuan-Chieh Chang, L. Ruby Leung, David R. Judi, Samson M. Hagos, Michael F. Wehner, James P. Kossin, Minfang Ting
Science Advances
This peer-reviewed study creates future projections of hurricane activity (1980–2100), downscaled from multiple climate models using a synthetic hurricane model, that show an enhanced hurricane frequency for the Gulf and lower East coast regions.Read More →

Excess methane emissions from shallow water platforms elevate the carbon intensity of US Gulf of Mexico oil and gas production

April 2023
Alan M. Gorchov Negron, Eric A. Kort, Yuanlei Chen, Ángel F. Adames-Corraliza
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
This peer-reviewed study presents an approach to calculating the carbon intensity of oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico, finding that government inventories underestimate the amount of methane produced by these operations.Read More →

Methane remote sensing and emission quantification of offshore shallow water oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico

August 2022
Alana K Ayasse, Andrew K Thorpe, Daniel H Cusworth, Eric A Kort, Alan Gorchov Negron, Joseph Heckler, Gregory Asner, and Riley M Duren
Environmental Research Letters
This study shows how remote sensing with imaging spectrometers and glint targeting can be used to efficiently observe offshore infrastructure, quantify methane emissions, and attribute those emissions to specific infrastructure types.Read More →

Attribution of Extreme Rainfall from Hurricane Harvey

January 2018
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Karin van der Wiel, Antonia Sebastian, Roop Singh, Julie Arrighi, Friederike Otto, Karsten Haustein, Sihan Li, Gabriel Vecchi, Heidi Cullen
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 →