Climate Attribution

Autumn and Winter storms over UK and Ireland are becoming wetter due to climate change

May 2024
Sarah F. Kew, Mark McCarthy, Ciara Ryan, Jennifer S.R. Pirret, Ellie Murtagh, Maja Vahlberg, Adwoa Amankona, James O. Pope, Fraser Lott, Oliver Claydon, Barry Coonan, Izidine Pinto, Clair Barnes, Sjoukje Philip
World Weather Attribution
This peer-reviewed event study assesses the extent to which human-induced climate change and the North Atlantic Oscillation influenced the average storm severity over the United Kingdom and Ireland from October 2023 to March 2024.Read More →

Understanding and Attribution of Extreme Heat and Drought Events in 2022: Current Situation and Future Challenges

October 2023
Lixia Zhang, Xiaojing Yu, Tianjun Zhou, Wenxia Zhang, Shuai Hu, Robin Clark
Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
This review article examines the role of climate change in notable events of the year in five major regions of the world: China’s Yangtze River region, western Europe, the western U.S., the Horn of Africa and central South America.Read More →

Attribution of the heavy rainfall events leading to severe flooding in Western Europe during July 2021

June 2023
Jordis Tradowsky, Sjoukje Philip, Frank Kreienkamp, Sarah Kew, Philip Lorenz, Julie Arrighi, Thomas Bettmann, Steven Caluwaerts, Steven Chan, Lesley De Cruz, Hylke de Vries, Norbert Demuth, Andrew Ferrone, Erich Fischer, Hayley Fowler, Klaus Georgen, Dorothy Heinrich, Yvone Heinrichs, Frank Kaspar, Geert Lenderink, Enno Nilson, Friedericke Otto, Francesco Ragone, Sonia Seneviratne, Roop Singh, Amalie Skålevåg, Piet Termonia, Lisa Thalheimer, Maarten van Aalst, Joris Van den Bergh, Hans Van den Vyver, Stéphanie Vannitsem, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Bert van Schaeybroeck, Robert Vautard, Demi Vonk, and Niko Wanders
Climatic Change
This peer-reviewed study uses observational data and climate modeling to compare the intensity and probability of the July 2021 extreme rainfall in Western Europe to that which would be experienced in a world without anthropogenic climate change.Read More →