Compound weather and climate events describe combinations of multiple climate drivers
and/or hazards that contribute to societal or environmental risk. Although many climate …

Robust evidence exists that certain extreme weather and climate events, especially daily
temperature and precipitation extremes, have changed in regard to intensity and frequency …

Caption: Table A. 11. 2. Synthesis table summarising assessments presented in Tables 11.4-
11.21 for hot extremes (HOT EXT.), heavy precipitation (HEAVY PRECIP.), agriculture and …

Extreme weather and climate‐related events occur in a particular place, by definition,
infrequently. It is therefore challenging to detect systematic changes in their occurrence …

Compound weather and climate events are combinations of climate drivers and/or hazards
that contribute to societal or environmental risk. Studying compound events often requires a …

Heatwaves impose disastrous impacts over human, natural and industrial systems across
the globe. Over a relatively short period of time, there has been considerable advancement …

Global warming is expected to increase the frequency and intensity of droughts in the twenty-
first century, but the relative contributions from changes in moisture supply (precipitation) …

Despite the continued increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, the annual-
mean global temperature has not risen in the twenty-first century,, challenging the prevailing …

This chapter assesses the causes of observed changes assessed in Chapters 2 to 5 and
uses understanding of physical processes, climate models and statistical approaches. The …

The climate science community is challenged to adopt an actionable risk perspective, which
is difficult to align with the traditional focus on model‐based probabilistic climate change …