Journal article
The contribution of anthropogenic forcing to the adelaide and Melbourne, Australia, heat waves of January 2014
MT Black, DJ Karoly, AD King
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Published : 2015
Abstract
Anthropogenic climate change very likely increased the likelihood of prolonged heat waves like that experienced in Adelaide in January 2014 by at least 16%. The influence for Melbourne is less clear.
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Funding Acknowledgements
The authors have been supported by funding from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (Grant CE110001028). Weather@home ANZ is a collaboration between the University of Oxford, the UK Met Office, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science in Australia, NIWA in New Zealand, the University of Melbourne, the University of Tasmania and the Tasmanian Partnership for Advanced Computing. We thank the volunteers who donated their computing time to run weather@home.