Resources Archive - Climate Attribution

Forecast-based attribution of a winter heatwave within the limit of predictability

Published:December 2021

Author(s):Nicholas J. Leach, Antje Weisheimer, Myles R. Allen, and Tim Palmer

Publisher:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

This study uses a forecast-based methodology to partially attribute the direct radiative effect of increased CO2 concentrations on the exceptional European winter heatwave of February 2019.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 →

New climate models reveal faster and larger increases in Arctic precipitation than previously projected

Published:November 2021

Author(s):Michelle R. McCrystall, Julienne Stroeve, Mark Serreze, Bruce C. Forbes, & James A. Screen

Publisher:Nature Communications

This study demonstrates that the transition from a snow- to rain-dominated Arctic in the summer and autumn is projected to occur decades earlier and at a lower level of global warming than previously thought.Read More →

Methane Emissions from Superemitting Coal Mines in Australia Quantified Using TROPOMI Satellite Observations

Published:November 2021

Author(s):Pankaj Sadavarte, Sudhanshu Pandey, Joannes D. Maasakkers, Alba Lorente, Tobias Borsdorff, Hugo Denier van der Gon, Sander Houweling, and Ilse Aben

Publisher:Environmental Science and Technology

This study quantifies methane emissions from coal mines in Queensland, the largest coal-producing state in Australia.Read More →

Multi-decadal increase of forest burned area in Australia is linked to climate change

Published:November 2021

Author(s):Josep G. Canadell, C. P. (Mick) Meyer, Garry D. Cook, Andrew Dowdy, Peter R. Briggs, Jürgen Knauer, Acacia Pepler, & Vanessa Haverd

Publisher:Nature Communications

This study finds that the factors driving increases in Australian burned areas are associated with anthropogenic climate change.Read More →

Environmental variability directly affects the prevalence of divorce in monogamous albatrosses

Published:November 2021

Author(s):Francesco Ventura, José Pedro Granadeiro, Paul M. Lukacs, Amanda Kuepfer, and Paulo Catry

Publisher:Proceedings of the Royal Society B

This study finds that the probability of divorce among the the long-lived black-browed albatross is directly affected by the environment, increasing in years with warm sea surface temperature anomalies.Read More →

Winter Tick Burdens for Moose Are Positively Associated With Warmer Summers and Higher Predation Rates

Published:November 2021

Author(s):Sarah R. Hoy, Leah M. Vucetich, Rolf O. Peterson, and John A. Vucetich

Publisher:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

This study provides insights about interrelationships among climate, parasites, host/prey, and predators.Read More →

Plague risk in the western United States over seven decades of environmental change

Published:November 2021

Author(s):Colin J. Carlson, Sarah N. Bevins, and Boris V. Schmid

Publisher:Global Change Biology

This study finds that due to the changing climate, rodent communities at high elevations have become more conducive to the establishment of plague reservoirs and that spillover risk to humans at mid-elevations has increased as well.Read More →

Wildfire response to changing daily temperature extremes in California’s Sierra Nevada

Published:November 2021

Author(s):Aurora A. Gutierrez, Stijn Hantson, Baird Langenbrunner, Bin Chen, Yufang Jin, Michael L. Goulden, and James T. Randerson

Publisher:ScienceAdvances

This study quantifies the sensitivity of wildfire occurrence and burned area in the Sierra Nevada to daily meteorological variables during 2001–2020.Read More →

Forest fires and climate-induced tree range shifts in the western US

Published:November 2021

Author(s):Avery P. Hill & Christopher B. Field

Publisher:Nature Communications

This study tests the sensitivity of tree range shifts to wildfire occurrence.Read More →

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