Prolonged Siberian heat of 2020 almost impossible without human influence

• Main Authors: Ciavarella, Andrew, Cotterill, Daniel, Stott, Peter, Kew, Sarah, Philip, Sjoukje, Van Oldenborgh, Geert J., Skålevåg, Amalie, Lorenz, Philip, Robin, Yoann, Otto, Friederike, Hauser, Mathias, id_orcid:0 000-0002-0057-4878, Seneviratne, Sonia I., id_orcid:0 000-0001-9528-2917, Lehner, Flavio, Zolina, Olga
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2021
• Subjects: Extreme event attribution; Heatwave; Siberia; Extremes; Multi-model; Rapid attribution; Arctic; Verkhoyansk; Climate change
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/484734; https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000484734

Over the first half of 2020, Siberia experienced the warmest period from January to June since records began and on the 20th of June the weather station at Verkhoyansk reported 38 °C, the highest daily maximum temperature recorded north of the Arctic Circle. We present a multi-model, multi-method an...