State of the Science Fact Sheet: How Human-Caused Climate Change Affects Extreme Events

Knutson, Thomas; Hoell, Andrew

doi:10.25923/7rp9-7t46

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State of the Science Fact Sheet: How Human-Caused Climate Change Affects Extreme Events

2025
By Knutson, Thomas ; Hoell, Andrew

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Alternative Title:

How Human-Caused Climate Change Affects Extreme Events
Personal Author:

Knutson, Thomas ; Hoell, Andrew
Corporate Authors:

United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOAA Program & Office:

OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; GFDL (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory) ; PSL (Physical Sciences Laboratory)
Description:

Extreme weather and climate events have significant impacts on society and ecosystems. Climate records show that several types of extreme events have changed over the past 50 to 100 years. Climate science strives to detect changes in weather and climate extremes, and to assess the extent to which human-caused climate change has influenced extreme events, including their frequency and intensity. Climate models are used to project future human-caused changes in extreme events.
Keywords:

Climate change NOAA Science Council
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25923/7rp9-7t46
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pdf
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Miscellaneous
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https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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CC0 Public Domain
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