Explaining Extreme Events of 2020 from a Climate Perspective
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.
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- The Life and Times of the Weather Risk Attribution Forecast
- Subseasonal to Seasonal Climate Forecasts Provide the Backbone of a Near Real-Time Event Explainer
- Development of a Rapid Response Capability to Evaluate Causes of Extreme Temperature and Drought Events in the United States
- How to Provide Useful Attribution Statements - Lessons learned from Operationalising Event Attribution in Europe
- Record Low North American Monsoon Rainfall in 2020 Reignites Drought over the American Southwest
- Anthropogenic Climate Change and the Record-High Temperature of May 2020 in Western Europe
- Anthropogenic Contribution to the Record-Breaking Warm and Wet Winter 2019/20 over Northwest Russia
- Were Meteorological Conditions Related to the 2020 Siberia Wildfires Made More Likely by Anthropogenic Climate Change?
- The January 2021 Cold Air Outbreak over Eastern China: Is There a Human Fingerprint?
- The Contribution of Human-Induced Atmospheric Circulation Changes to the Record-Breaking Winter Precipitation Event over Beijing in February 2020
- Attribution of April 2020 exceptional cold spell over Northeast China
- Anthropogenic Influences on 2020 Extreme Dry–Wet Contrast over South China
- Was the Record-Breaking Mei-yu of 2020 Enhanced by Regional Climate Change?
- Reduced Probability of 2020 June–July Persistent Heavy Mei-yu Rainfall Event in the Mid-Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River Basin under Anthropogenic Forcing
- Human contribution to the 2020 summer successive hot-wet extremes in South Korea
- The 2020 Record-Breaking Mei-yu in the Yangtze River Valley of China: The Role of Anthropogenic Forcing and Atmospheric Circulation
- Toward Near Real-time Attribution of Extreme Weather Events in Aotearoa New Zealand
- Heavy Rainfall Event in Mid-August 2020 in Southwestern China: Contribution of Anthropogenic Forcings and Atmospheric Circulation
- Timely Event Attribution of Extreme Precipitation in Japan: An Example of Heavy Rainfall in July 2020
- Anthropogenic Warming Has Increased the 2020 Extreme Hot and Dry Conditions over Southwest China