Sentences with phrase «event attribution approaches»

Not exact matches

The new research differs from other so - called extreme event attribution studies, not just in its broad - brush approach, but also in how the term «extreme» is defined.

I think you want to look at the concept of «fractional attribution» rather than an either - or approach of attributing a given event to «natural cause» vs. «anthropogenic cause.»

IIRC Hansen first broached the 3 - sigma approach to attribution a while back, so AFAICT what's new here is the finger being pointed at additional recent events (and of course anticipating being able to make the same finding for the current NA drought / heat).

«This analysis proves that the modelling approach behind one of the main pillars of real - time event attribution undertaken is sound and applicable to a range of extreme events in regions where we have confidence in the model performance», said Karsten Haustein, lead author of the new paper.

The University of Oxford's role will be to test different approaches to attribution, in particular to define extreme weather events and evaluate our models, using climateprediction.net's distributed computing system.