Not every extreme weather event is caused by climate change, but heat waves that were once ridiculously improbable are showing up more often. Just ask Portland.
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Scientists used artificial neural networks to analyze precipitation records. They found evidence of human activities influencing extreme rainfall or snowfall around the world.
As the planet continues to warm, extreme weather events such as heatwaves and heavy rainfall are becoming more frequent, intense and longer, according to global weather data.
Ghana needs to deal with the underlying causes of floods and prepare people for them.
Kerala floods show the relationship between climate change and extreme rainfall is complex.
Engineering practice assumes that floods are randomly distributed but science suggests they are not. This raises questions about the reliability of flood infrastructure and management strategies.
We already know that climate change makes heatwaves hotter and longer. But a new series of research papers asks whether there is also a climate fingerprint on frosty spells and bouts of wet weather.
Climate change can not be managed from a global perspective alone.
The unpredictability of hurricanes makes it hard to say for sure whether climate change is making them worse. But we do know that sea-level rise and increased evaporation will worsen the impacts.
Green roofs could play a critical role in helping cities cope with extreme rainfall events in the age of climate change. The roofs essentially suck up stormwater like sponges if designed properly.
Analysis of flood gauge data suggest that floods are becoming less frequent in many parts of the world. Despite that, more people and property are at risk, particularly in developing countries.
New research shows that global warming has already begun to exacerbate extremes of rainfall in the Pacific region – with more to come.
Was Malcolm Turnbull right to say that larger and more frequent storms are one of the predicted consequences of climate change – but that you can’t attribute any particular storm to global warming?
A proliferation of concrete is increasing the risk of urban flooding. The solution? More gardens.
Since 1999, Australia has swung between drought and deluge with surprising speed, because El Niño has fallen into sync with similar patterns in the Indian and Southern Oceans.
Australia is the land of drought of flooding rains, driven by events such as El Nino. But despite this variability, some parts of Australia are clearly drying out.
Cumbria 2015 shows how we have failed to learn from two other ‘one in 100-year events’ in the past 15 years.
Global warming is, by definition, experienced worldwide. But a new study shows that the tropics were the first places on earth where the human effect on climate outstripped normal climate variations.
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ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor in Climate Science, ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, The University of Melbourne
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Principal Research Scientist in Extreme Weather, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Climate Science, UMass Lowell
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Professor of Hydrology and Climate Risk, Adelaide University
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Sydney Horizon Fellow, University of Sydney
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Professor Emeritus of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan
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Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, University of Dayton
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Professor of Hydrology and Geomorphology, Cardiff University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Professor in Climate Science, Monash University
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Distinguished Scholar, National Center for Atmospheric Research; Affiliate Faculty, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Professor in Physical Geography, University of Liverpool
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Principal research scientist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
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Associate Professor, Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience, University of Florida
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Research Assistant, GRIT Lab, University of Toronto