Climate extremes and compound hazards in a warming world

A AghaKouchak, F Chiang, LS Huning… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Climate extremes threaten human health, economic stability, and the well-being of natural
and built environments (eg, 2003 European heat wave). As the world continues to warm …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change: Strategies for mitigation and adaptation

F Wang, JD Harindintwali, K Wei, Y Shan… - The Innovation …, 2023 - the-innovation.org
The sustainability of life on Earth is under increasing threat due to human-induced climate
change. This perilous change in the Earth's climate is caused by increases in carbon dioxide …

Inequitable patterns of US flood risk in the Anthropocene

OEJ Wing, W Lehman, PD Bates, CC Sampson… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Current flood risk mapping, relying on historical observations, fails to account for increasing
threat under climate change. Incorporating recent developments in inundation modelling …

Extreme sea levels at different global warming levels

C Tebaldi, R Ranasinghe, M Vousdoukas… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
The Paris agreement focused global climate mitigation policy on limiting global warming to
1.5 or 2° C above pre-industrial levels. Consequently, projections of hazards and risk are …

Tropical cyclone climatology change greatly exacerbates US extreme rainfall–surge hazard

A Gori, N Lin, D Xi, K Emanuel - Nature Climate Change, 2022 - nature.com
Tropical cyclones (TCs) are drivers of extreme rainfall and surge, but the current and future
TC rainfall–surge joint hazard has not been well quantified. Using a physics-based …

Framing, Context, and Methods (Chapter 1)

D Chen, M Rojas, BH Samset, K Cobb… - 2021 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
Working Group I (WGI) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assesses
the current evidence on the physical science of climate change, evaluating knowledge …

Impacts of 1.5 C global warming on natural and human systems

O Hoegh Guldberg, D Jacob, M Taylor, M Bindi… - 2018 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
This Report responds to the invitation for IPCC?... to provide a Special Report in 2018 on the
impacts of global warming of 1.5° C above pre-industrial levels and related global …

[HTML][HTML] New elevation data triple estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal flooding

SA Kulp, BH Strauss - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Most estimates of global mean sea-level rise this century fall below 2 m. This quantity is
comparable to the positive vertical bias of the principle digital elevation model (DEM) used …

Going underwater? Flood risk belief heterogeneity and coastal home price dynamics

LA Bakkensen, L Barrage - The Review of Financial Studies, 2022 - academic.oup.com
How do climate risk beliefs affect coastal housing markets? This paper provides theoretical
and empirical evidence. First, we build a dynamic housing market model and show that …

Global blue carbon accumulation in tidal wetlands increases with climate change

F Wang, CJ Sanders, IR Santos, J Tang… - National Science …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Coastal tidal wetlands produce and accumulate significant amounts of organic carbon (C)
that help to mitigate climate change. However, previous data limitations have prevented a …