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Explaining extreme events in 2019 from a climate perspective

This BAMS special report presents assessments of how human-caused climate change may have affected the strength and likelihood of individual extreme events. The ninth edition of the report "Explaining Extreme Events in 2019 from a Climate Perspective", presents 15 new peer-reviewed analyses of extreme weather across four continents and one sea during 2019. It features the research of 77 scientists from 7 countries looking at both historical observations and model simulations to determine whether and by how much climate change may have influenced particular extreme events.

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