Sentences with phrase «attributable change in rainfall»
As estimates of the greenhouse gas attributable change in rainfall risk may depend on the model datasets considered, it is also useful to consider model outputs from several datasets and using various estimates of counterfactual surface conditions to establish robust attribution statements for extreme rainfall events.
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QUOTE 3 (in that same page range): «The absence of an attributable climate change signal in losses also holds for flood losses» is followed by the conveniently omitted phrase «although some studies did find recent increases in flood losses related in part to changes in intense rainfall events (Fengqing et al., 2005; Chang et al., 2009).»
It's difficult to say for certain that a particular extreme event for the monsoon is attributable to anthropogenic climate change — like the Pakistan floods of 2010 — but we do know that with a warming climate more moisture can be held in the atmosphere, leading to heavier rainfall when it does occur.