Explaining extreme events of 2014 from a climate perspective Special Supplement to the Bulletin
of the American Meteorological Society Vol. 96, No. 12, December 2015 From A Climate …

neither our probability quantification nor our compositing methodology quantifies the
amplitude of extreme ridging events. Because we do not explicitly consider geopotential …

Understanding the influence of thermal trends, crop management practices, and genetics on
the crop developmental stages and phases is critical to develop adaptation strategies in the …

Skilful predictions of near-term climate extremes are key to a resilient society. However,
standard methods of analysing seasonal forecasts are not optimised to identify the rarer and …

Girardin, MP, Ali AA, Carcaillet C., Mudelsee M., Drobyshev I., Hely C., and Bergeron Y.,
2009: Heterogeneous response of circumboreal wildfire risk to climate change since the …

Introduction This chapter synthesizes the scientific literature on the detection and attribution
of observed changes in natural and human systems in response to observed recent climate …

Crop production is greatly impacted by growing season duration, which is driven by
prevailing environmental conditions (mainly temperature) and agronomic management …

Attribution of extreme events is a challenging science and one that is currently undergoing
considerable evolution. In this paper, 20 different research groups explored the causes of 16 …

Abstract Changes in precipitation have been widely considered as a critical indicator of
climate change. This is of prime importance to assess the strength and magnitude of these …

A sequence of monsoon surges struck Pakistan and Northwestern India during late July‐
early August 2010. The unusually heavy monsoon rainfall resulted in record‐breaking …