Texas Archives - Climate Attribution

Extreme heat and its association with social disparities in the risk of spontaneous preterm birth

Published:December 2021

Author(s):Lara Cushing, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Alan Hubbard

Publisher:Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

This study tests the hypotheses that acute exposure to extreme heat is associated with higher risk of live spontaneous preterm birth and that risks are higher among people of color. Read More →

Assessment of Historic and Future Trends of Extreme Weather in Texas, 1900-2036

Published:October 2021

Author(s):John Nielsen-Gammon, Sara Holman, Austin Buley, Savannah Jorgensen

Publisher:Texas A&M University Office of the Texas State Climatologist

This report analyzes historic observations of temperature, precipitation, and extreme weather in Texas and identifies ongoing and likely future trends out to the year 2036.Read More →

Linking Arctic variability and change with extreme winter weather in the United States

Published:September 2021

Author(s):Judah Cohen, Laurie Agel, Mathew Barlow, Chaim I. Garfinkel, and Ian White

Publisher:Science

This study links Artic warming with periods of extreme cold across parts of Asia and North America.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 →

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 →

Attributable Human-Induced Changes in the Likelihood and Magnitude of the Observed Extreme Precipitation During Hurricane Harvey

Published:December 2017

Author(s):Mark Risser, Michael Wehner

Publisher:Geophysical Research Letters

This report analyzes observed precipitation to find that human-induced climate change likely increased the chances of the observed precipitation accumulations during Hurricane Harvey in the most affected areas of Houston. Read More →

The Absence of a Role of Climate Change in the 2011 Thailand Floods

Published:July 2012

Author(s):Thomas C. Peterson, Peter A. Stott, Stephanie Herring

Publisher:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Using a variety of methodologies, six extreme events of the previous year are explained from a climate perspective.Read More →