Attribution of Weather and Climate Events
By Friederike E. L. Otto. 2017
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Within the past decade, the attribution of extreme weather and climate events has emerged from a theoretical possibility into a subfield of climate science in its own right, providing scientific evidence on the role of anthropogenic climate change in individual extreme weather events, on a regular basis and using a range of approaches. Different approaches and thus different framings of the attribution question lead to very different assessments of the role of human-induced climate change. Although there is no right or wrong approach, the community is currently debating about the appropriate methodologies for addressing various stakeholder needs and scientific limitations. Tackling these limitations with more thorough model evaluation and meaningful bias corrections as well as going beyond the meteorological hazard and attributing the full impacts of extreme weather are the main challenges to face in the coming years.
Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change
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In Global and Planetary Change
- Flavio Lehner
- G. J. van Oldenborgh
- C. Tebaldi
- Friederike E. L. Otto
- Miguel B. Araújo
- Reto Knutti
- Wilfried Thuiller
- P. Mujumdar
Citations in the corpus
- Anthropogenic influence on the drivers of the Western Cape drought 2015–2017 (2018, methodology): “The analysis uses the recommended multimethod approach (NAS 2016) and follows the standard structure of event attribution analyses (e.g. Otto 2017, Philip et al 2018) by defining an event in section 2, describing data and models used in section 3, assessing trends in section 4 and attributing the…”