Attribution of 2020 hurricane season extreme rainfall to human-induced climate change
The 2020 North Atlantic hurricane season was one of the most active on record, causing heavy rains, strong storm surges, and high winds. Human activities continue to increase the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, resulting in an increase of more than 1°C in the global average surface tem...
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ftosti:oai:osti.gov:1869672 2023-07-30T04:05:16+02:00 Attribution of 2020 hurricane season extreme rainfall to human-induced climate change Reed, Kevin A. Wehner, Michael F. Zarzycki, Colin M. 2022-08-05 application/pdf http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1869672 https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1869672 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29379-1 unknown http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1869672 https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1869672 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29379-1 doi:10.1038/s41467-022-29379-1 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 2022 ftosti https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29379-1 2023-07-11T10:12:38Z The 2020 North Atlantic hurricane season was one of the most active on record, causing heavy rains, strong storm surges, and high winds. Human activities continue to increase the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, resulting in an increase of more than 1°C in the global average surface temperature in 2020 compared to 1850. This increase in temperature led to increases in sea surface temperature in the North Atlantic basin of 0.4–0.9°C during the 2020 hurricane season. Here we show that human-induced climate change increased the extreme 3-hourly storm rainfall rates and extreme 3-day accumulated rainfall amounts during the full 2020 hurricane season for observed storms that are at least tropical storm strength (>18 m/s) by 10 and 5%, respectively. When focusing on hurricane strength storms (>33 m/s), extreme 3-hourly rainfall rates and extreme 3-day accumulated rainfall amounts increase by 11 and 8%, respectively. Other/Unknown Material North Atlantic SciTec Connect (Office of Scientific and Technical Information - OSTI, U.S. Department of Energy) Nature Communications 13 1 |
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The 2020 North Atlantic hurricane season was one of the most active on record, causing heavy rains, strong storm surges, and high winds. Human activities continue to increase the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, resulting in an increase of more than 1°C in the global average surface temperature in 2020 compared to 1850. This increase in temperature led to increases in sea surface temperature in the North Atlantic basin of 0.4–0.9°C during the 2020 hurricane season. Here we show that human-induced climate change increased the extreme 3-hourly storm rainfall rates and extreme 3-day accumulated rainfall amounts during the full 2020 hurricane season for observed storms that are at least tropical storm strength (>18 m/s) by 10 and 5%, respectively. When focusing on hurricane strength storms (>33 m/s), extreme 3-hourly rainfall rates and extreme 3-day accumulated rainfall amounts increase by 11 and 8%, respectively. |
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Attribution of 2020 hurricane season extreme rainfall to human-induced climate change |
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Attribution of 2020 hurricane season extreme rainfall to human-induced climate change |
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Attribution of 2020 hurricane season extreme rainfall to human-induced climate change |
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Attribution of 2020 hurricane season extreme rainfall to human-induced climate change |
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Attribution of 2020 hurricane season extreme rainfall to human-induced climate change |
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attribution of 2020 hurricane season extreme rainfall to human-induced climate change |
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