Climate Attribution

Exploring Spatial Heterogeneity in Synergistic Effects of Compound Climate Hazards: Extreme Heat and Wildfire Smoke on Cardiorespiratory Hospitalizations in California

February 2024
Chen Chen, Laura Schwarz, Noam Rosenthal, Miriam E. Marlier, Tarik Benmarhnia
Science Advances
In this peer-reviewed study, the authors used high-resolution satellite and monitoring data to quantify the way that compound exposures to extreme heat and wildfire smoke in California (2006–2019) varied between ZIP codes.Read More →

Ubiquitous Acceleration in Greenland Ice Sheet Calving From 1985 to 2022

January 2024
Chad A. Greene, Alex S. Gardner, Michael Wood, Joshua K. Cuzzone
Nature
This peer-reviewed study that, since 1985, the Greenland Ice Sheet has lost 5,091 ± 72 km2 of area, and that current consensus estimates of ice-sheet mass balance have underestimated recent mass loss from Greenland by as much as 20%.Read More →

African Rice Cultivation Linked to Rising Methane

January 2024
Zichong Chen, Nicholas Balasus, Haipeng Lin, Hannah Nesser, Daniel J. Jacob
Nature Climate Change
In this peer-reviewed article, the authors assess methane emissions from rapidly increasing rice cultivation in Africa. The authors estimate that this source accounts for 7% of the current global rise in methane can be attributed to this source.Read More →

Geostationary Satellite Observations of Extreme and Transient Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Infrastructure

December 2023
Marc Watine-Guiu, Daniel J. Varon, Itziar Irakulis-Loitxate, Nicholas Balasus, Daniel J. Jacob
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
In this peer-reviewed study, the authors use continuous 5-minute monitoring of large methane point sources with geostationary satellites to document and quantify large methane releases from oil and gas infrastructure.Read More →

Climate change strongly affects future fire weather danger in Indian forests

December 2023
Anasuya Barik, Somnath Baidya Roy
Nature Communications Earth & Environment
This peer-reviewed study quantifies the impact of such changes on the fire weather of Indian forests and finds that fire risk increases in dry climate forests but may be reduced in humid forests, suggesting the importance of regional mitigation.Read More →

A physiological approach for assessing human survivability and liveability to heat in a changing climate

November 2023
Jennifer Vanos, Gisel Guzman-Echavarria, Jane W. Baldwin, Coen Bongers, Kristie L. Ebi, Ollie Jay
Nature Communications
This peer-reviewed study applies physiological and biophysical principles to improve current estimates of survivability and livability under current and future climates. The authors conclude that current methodologies vastly underestimate such risks.Read More →

The social costs of tropical cyclones

November 2023
Hazem Krichene, Thomas Vogt, Franziska Piontek, Tobias Geiger, Christof Schötz, Christian Otto
Nature Communications
In this peer-reviewed study, the authors study the persistent growth effects of damaging tropical cyclones, and find that accounting for tropical cyclone impacts on growth substantially increases the global social cost of carbon by more than 20%.Read More →