Attribution of the heavy rainfall events leading to severe flooding in Western Europe during July 2021

JS Tradowsky, SY Philip, F Kreienkamp, SF Kew… - Climatic Change, 2023 - Springer
In July 2021 extreme rainfall across Western Europe caused severe flooding and substantial
impacts, including over 200 fatalities and extensive infrastructure damage within Germany …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of community deaths during the catastrophic 2021 heat dome: Early evidence to inform the public health response during subsequent events in …

SB Henderson, KE McLean, MJ Lee… - Environmental …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Background: British Columbia, Canada, was impacted by a record-setting heat dome in
early summer 2021. Most households in greater Vancouver do not have air conditioning …

The extremely hot and dry 2018 summer in central and northern Europe from a multi-faceted weather and climate perspective

E Rousi, AH Fink, LS Andersen… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2023 - nhess.copernicus.org
The summer of 2018 was an extraordinary season in climatological terms for northern and
central Europe, bringing simultaneous, widespread, and concurrent heat and drought …

Machine learning applications for weather and climate need greater focus on extremes

PAG Watson - Environmental Research Letters, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Multiple studies have now demonstrated that machine learning (ML) can give improved skill
for predicting or simulating fairly typical weather events, for tasks such as short-term and …

[HTML][HTML] Attribution of the unprecedented heat event of August 2023 in Barcelona (Spain) to observed and projected global warming

M Lemus-Canovas, E Montesinos-Ciuró… - Urban Climate, 2024 - Elsevier
The study analyses observed and numerical simulations of daily maximum and minimum
temperature from 1920 onwards and to investigate the unprecedented heat event that …

[HTML][HTML] Using Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) column CO retrievals to rapidly detect and estimate biospheric surface carbon flux anomalies

AF Feldman, Z Zhang, Y Yoshida… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
The global carbon cycle is experiencing continued perturbations via increases in
atmospheric carbon concentrations, which are partly reduced by terrestrial biosphere and …

[HTML][HTML] ClimaMeter: contextualizing extreme weather in a changing climate

D Faranda, G Messori, E Coppola… - Weather and Climate …, 2024 - wcd.copernicus.org
Climate change is a global challenge with multiple far-reaching consequences, including
the intensification and increased frequency of many extreme-weather events. In response to …

[HTML][HTML] The unprecedented spatial extent and intensity of the 2021 summer extreme heatwave event over the Western North American regions

SH Lo, CT Chen, HH Hsu, MF Shih, HC Liang - Weather and Climate …, 2023 - Elsevier
A record-breaking heatwave event occurred in western North America in the summer of
2021. Previous studies on a similar event's uniqueness and return period are typically …

Applying global warming levels of emergence to highlight the increasing population exposure to temperature and precipitation extremes

D Gampe, C Schwingshackl, A Böhnisch… - Earth System …, 2024 - esd.copernicus.org
The swift and ongoing rise of global temperatures over the past decades led to an
increasing number of climate variables showing statistically significant changes compared to …

Unprecedented 21st century glacier loss on Mt. Hood, Oregon, USA

N Bakken-French, SJ Boyer, BC Southworth… - The …, 2024 - tc.copernicus.org
As part of the southern Cascades, Mt. Hood is the tallest and most glacierized peak in
Oregon, USA. Despite alpine glaciers being one the clearest indicators of human-caused …