Weather attribution refers to the process of determining how much human activities, such as greenhouse gas emissions, can be held responsible for extreme weather events, like hurricanes or heatwaves. It helps understand the link between human influence and specific weather occurrences.
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In the second real - time
extreme weather attribution study in the context of the World Weather Attribution project the team found a 5 - 80 % increase in the likelihood of heavy precipitation like those associated with storm Desmond to occur due to anthropogenic climate change.
In the second real - time extreme
weather attribution study in the context of the World Weather Attribution project the team found a 5 - 80 % increase in the likelihood of heavy precipitation like those associated with storm Desmond to occur due to anthropogenic climate change.
In a commentary in Nature Geoscience last month, Patton and several other lawyers argued that
weather attribution science is now robust enough to be important in court and they laid out implications for planners and engineers who want to avoid being sued.
«The pace of change is immediately obvious, especially over the past few decades,» Hawkins, who has previously worked with Climate Central's extreme
weather attribution team, wrote in an email.
In this case, as part of the
world weather attribution project, our partners at Climate Central convened an international team of scientists from Oxford University, KNMI, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, along with regional partners from CNRS and MeteoSwiss in order to assess the potential role of global warming on a specific heat event — not just a record hot summer.
Extreme weather attribution is however an emerging and rapidly advancing science, and there is increasing capacity to estimate the change in magnitude and occurrence of specific types of extreme events in a warming world.
said Friederike Otto, an Oxford physicist who helms
the weather attribution initiative with Allen.
The results are a part of the developing field of «
weather attribution» that uses observational weather and climate data, weather forecasts and climate models.