Peer-reviewed Study Archives - Page 35 of 51

The effects of anthropogenic and volcanic aerosols and greenhouse gases on twentieth century Sahel precipitation

Published:July 2020

Author(s):Rebecca Jean Herman, Alessandra Giannini, Michela Biasutti and Yochanan Kushnir

Publisher:Scientific Reports

This study simulations highlight the importance of anthropogenic and volcanic aerosols over GHG in generating forced Sahel rainfall variability in models.Read More →

Human influence on joint changes in temperature, rainfall and continental aridity

Published:July 2020

Author(s):Céline J. W. Bonfils, Benjamin D. Santer, John C. Fyfe, Kate Marvel, Thomas J. Phillips, Susan R. H. Zimmerman

Publisher:Nature Climate Change

Two fingerprints are statistically identifiable in observations of joint changes in temperature, rainfall and aridity during 1950–2014.Read More →

Increasing trends in regional heatwaves

Published:July 2020

Author(s):S. E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick, S. C. Lewis

Publisher:Nature

Trends in heatwave frequency, duration and cumulative heat have accelerated since the 1950s.Read More →

Compound Events under Global Warming: A Dependence Perspective

Published:July 2020

Author(s):Zengchao Hao, Vijay P. Singh

Publisher:ASCE

Cause of dependence, the relationship between dependence and likelihoods of compound events, and changes in risks associated with dependence changes are reviewed.Read More →

Extreme Runoff Generation From Atmospheric River Driven Snowmelt During the 2017 Oroville Dam Spillways Incident

Published:June 2020

Author(s):Brian Henn, Keith N. Musselman, Leanne Lestak , F. Martin Ralph, Noah P. Molotch

Publisher:American Geophysical Union

This study suggests that unusually warm temperatures during winter atmospheric river storms in the Western United States are associated with flood risk due to substantial rainfall and snowmelt. Read More →

Estimating US fossil fuel CO2 emissions from measurements of 14C in atmospheric CO2

Published:June 2020

Author(s):Sourish Basu, Scott J. Lehman, John B. Miller, Arlyn E. Andrews, Colm Sweeney, Kevin R. Gurney, Xiaomei Xu, John Southon, Pieter P. Tans

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

This article presents an independent method of emissions monitoring based directly on atmospheric observations and the strong fossil fuel CO2 detection capability afforded by precise measurements of 14CO2 in air samples.Read More →

Human influence has intensified extreme precipitation in North America

Published:June 2020

Author(s):Megan C. Kirchmeier-Young, Xuebin Zhang

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

This study finds robust results for anthropogenic influence on extreme precipitation at continental scales.Read More →

The Economic Costs of Hurricane Harvey Attributable to Climate Change

Published:May 2020

Author(s):David J.Frame, Michael F. Wehner, Ilan Noy, and Suzanne M. Rosier

Publisher:Climatic Change

This paper uses a probabilistic event attribution framework to estimate the costs associated with Hurricane Harvey that are attributable to anthropogenic influence on the climate system.Read More →

Verification of extreme event attribution: Using out-of-sample observations to assess changes in probabilities of unprecedented events

Published:March 2020

Author(s):Noah S. Diffenbaugh

Publisher:American Association for the Advancement of Science

This study presents a framework for independent verification of anthropogenic influence on specific extreme climate events.Read More →

Influence of climate change impacts and mitigation costs on inequality between countries

Published:February 2020

Author(s):Nicolas Taconet, Aurélie Méjean, Céline Guivarch

Publisher:Climatic Change

By computing the evolution of country-by-country GDP, scenarios are built that account for the joint effects of mitigation costs and climate damages on inequality.Read More →