Sentences with phrase «individual event attribution»

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Overall, the chances of seeing a rainfall event as intense as Harvey have roughly tripled - somewhere between 1.5 and five times more likely - since the 1900s and the intensity of such an event has increased between 8 percent and 19 percent, according to the new study by researchers with World Weather Attribution, an international coalition of scientists that objectively and quantitatively assesses the possible role of climate change in individual extreme weather events.

The latest in so - called attribution studies is to study each individual event by itself, looking for how climate change may have made it stronger or more likely.

Although the science of event attribution has developed rapidly in recent years, geographical coverage of events remains patchy and based on the interests and capabilities of individual research groups.

Myles Allen is the Principal Investigator of climateprediction.net and was the first to propose the use of Probabilistic Event Attribution to quantify the contribution of human and other external influences on climate to specific individual weather events.

But attribution of individual events is not particularly useful in assessing future risk, even if it could be «got right.»

Individuals with high self - esteem made more stable and global internal attributions for positive events than for negative events, leading to the reinforcement of their positive self - image.