The Arctic is currently experiencing a heat wave with temperatures forecasted to be more than 20 ºC above normal, following a very warm November and December. Such a heat wave has dramatic consequences for the local ecosystem and is also a striking example of how climate change is impacting the world today.   Historical temperature […]

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Thanks to the volunteers who are running weather@home on their personal computer, a large number of present and future drought events in the UK are being created within the project “MaRIUS” (Managing the Risks, Impacts and Uncertainties of drought and water Scarcity). These are used to drive a range hydrological and impact models in order […]

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2014 broke the record for the warmest yearly average temperature in Europe. Attributing how much this was due to anthropogenic (man-made) climate change and how much it was due to natural variability is a challenging question, but one that is important to address. A new study which compares four different attribution methods including weather@home, indicates that […]

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Whenever an extreme weather event happens that impacts society the “attribution question” whether human induced-induced climate change played a role is asked. Scientists are now able to answer this question for many different types of extreme weather events. However, the answer depends on how the attribution question is framed. Different framings and differing definitions of […]

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The New York Times reports on the work of World Weather Attribution scientists and explains how CPDN simulations are used to make real-time assessments of the role of climate change in extreme weather events possible. Using the example of the recent real-time study on the floods in France and Germany the article details how we […]

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