Monthly Archives: November 2015
8 publications in special report rely on weather@home simulations to explain extreme weather events of 2014 in Australia, Africa and South America
Posted on 5th November 2015
Human-induced climate change plays a clear and significant role in some extreme weather events but understanding the other risks at a local level is also important, highlights Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society’s annual special report, Explaining Extreme Events of 2014 from a Climate Perspective. For the fourth year in a row it investigates the […]
Record hot October in Australia at least 6 times more likely due to global warming
Posted on 5th November 2015
Writing in The Conversation CPDN partners David Karoly and Mitchell Black provide a real-time assessment of the role human-induced climate change and the ongoing El Nino are playing in the record breaking October temperatures in Australia. The magnitude of the monthly mean anaomalies is huge, with 1 deg Celcisus above the previous October record for […]