Journal article
Attribution of extreme events to climate change in the Australian region – A review
TP Lane, AD King, SE Perkins-Kirkpatrick, AJ Pitman, LV Alexander, JM Arblaster, NL Bindoff, CH Bishop, MT Black, RA Bradstock, HG Clarke, AJE Gallant, MR Grose, NJ Holbrook, GJ Holland, PK Hope, DJ Karoly, TH Raupach, AM Ukkola
Weather and Climate Extremes | ELSEVIER | Published : 2023
Abstract
Extreme event attribution is a rapidly growing field of climate science with important implications for public and government understanding of human-induced climate change. However, there is substantial variation in how well events can be attributed to human-induced climate change, depending on the nature of the event. Focusing on Australia: at one end of the scale, large-scale heat events on both the land and in the ocean are well suited to attribution studies because climate models simulate them reasonably well, there are high-quality observations available and our understanding of the processes that lead to extreme heat events is reasonably well developed. At the other end of the scale, v..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We acknowledge support from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CE170100023) and the National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub and NESP Climate Systems Hub. HC receives funding from the Westpac Scholars Trust via a Westpac Research Fellowship. HC and RB acknowledge the New South Wales Government's Department of Planning, Industry & Environment for providing funds to support this research via the NSW Bushfire Risk Management Research Hub. AU acknowledges support from the Australian Research Council (DE20010086) . Thank you to David Jones and Gen Tolhurst for comments on an earlier version of the manuscript.