The complexity of the new study «had a big impact on how certain we were» that «we would be able to do a sensible analysis,» said Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, a Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute climate scientist who was involved with this and prior
rapid attribution studies.
For example, the National Academies recently published a
study on the
attribution of extreme events in the context of climate change, noting that «advances have come about for two main reasons: one, the understanding of the climate and weather mechanisms that produce extreme events is improving, and two,
rapid progress is being made in the methods that are used for event
attribution.