Publication Date
9 December 2021
The life and times of the Weather Risk Attribution Forecast
This BAMS special report presents assessments of how human-caused climate change may have affected the strength and likelihood of individual extreme events.
This BAMS special report presents assessments of how human-caused climate change may have affected the strength and likelihood of individual extreme events.
The tenth edition of the report, Explaining Extreme Events in 2020 from a Climate Perspective, presents 18 new peer-reviewed analyses of extreme weather from across the world during 2020. It features the research of 89 scientists from nine countries looking at both historical observations and model simulations to determine whether and by how much climate change may have influenced particular extreme events.
Stone, Dáithí, Kamoru A Lawal, Chris Lennard, Mark Tadross, Piotr Wolski, and Michael Wehner. 2021. “The Life And Times Of The Weather Risk Attribution Forecast”. In Special Report: Explaining Extreme Events From A Climate Perspective. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. https://www.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/ams/publications/bulletin-of-the-american-meteorological-society-bams/explaining-extreme-events-from-a-climate-perspective/.
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