Topic

Extreme weather attribution

The practice of quantifying how much of a specific weather event's severity can be traced to a particular driver, usually through paired model experiments against observations.

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Warm Tibetan Plateau winters account for 56% of California's January 2017 rain anomaly in models

A UCLA-led team reports in Science Advances that heat over the Tibetan Plateau preceded two record California winters. The model attribution is 56 and 30 per cent of the rainfall anomaly, from two cases.

Publishers:livescience.comnewscientist.com

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+35
Incentives55
Confidence66