Sentences with phrase «quantifying changes in extremes»
Sonia tells me the back story of becoming a CLA, the ongoing challenges of quantifying changes in extremes — droughts in particular, and the need to communicate seemingly obvious climate science to a broader audience.
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«This new way of viewing the problem could be a game changer in the attribution of extreme events by providing a framework to quantify the portion of the damage that can be attributed to climate change — even for events that themselves can not be directly attributed to climate change using traditional methods,» continues Hammerling.
His research interests include studying the interactions between El Niño / Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the monsoons of Asia; identifying possible effects on global climate of changing human factors, such as carbon dioxide, as well as natural factors, such as solar variability; and quantifying possible future changes of weather and climate extremes in a warmer climate.
His research focuses on how human and natural influences on climate contribute to observed climate change and risks of extreme weather and in quantifying their implications for long - range climate forecasts.
To quantify the impact of changes in short - lived climate pollutants and regional climate forcings, in addition to the impact of warming induced by greenhouse gases, on weather extremes in Africa.
Presents a revised framework that quantifies observed changes in the climate of the contiguous United States through analysis of a revised version of the U.S. Climate Extremes Index (CEI)
He is broadly interested in quantifying, communicating, and mitigating the health risks associated with climate change, with a focus on the public health burden of global air pollution and extreme heat events.
There has been an increase in extreme flooding, droughts and heat waves across the world, but when It comes to tornado and hurricane activity, these events are harder to quantify in terms of climate change, according to CNN's weather team.