This sixth edition of explaining extreme events of the previous year (2016) from a climate perspective is the first of these reports to find that some extreme events were not possible in a preindustrial climate. The events were the 2016 record global heat, the heat across Asia, as well as a marine heat wave off the coast of Alaska. While these results are novel, they were not unexpected. Climate attribution sci...
Made available in DSpace on 2018-11-26T15:28:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-02-24; Seventh Framework Programme; Seventh Framework Programme EUPORIAS project; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ); Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (F...