Larger atmospheric rivers tend to occur within dense clusters of storms. And frequency and intensity increases with global warming. Yang Zhou Berkeley Lab
newscenter.lbl.gov/2024/04/18/unr…

Back-to-back high category atmospheric river landfalls occur more often on the west coast of the United States disq.us/t/4nwacfo 🌧️📊Essential insights as we navigate climate change. Berkeley Lab Michael Wehner
#AtmosphericRivers #climate

An important new article led by Yang Zhou on back to back Atmospheric Rivers, an example of temporally compound events and the role of large scale meteorological patterns. Berkeley Lab
link.springer.com/article/10.103…

We examine methods of quantifying uncertainty in extreme precipitation. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

New work led by Mark Risser using Granger causal inference methods to attribute observed US precipitation changes to human influences, separating out GHG and aerosol effects

New work using Granger causal inference methods to attribute observed US precipitation changes to human influences, separating out GHG and aerosol effects

More on cat 6 from the insurance perspective. Berkeley Lab
theinsurertv.com/news-in-focus/…

Added to the debate about a new hurricane category 6 there is now one on extending the official Atlantic hurricane season, as proposed by World Meteorological Organization in view of ever earlier storms! Our views at #RealClimate , by @JimKossin, Tim Hall, Prof Michael E. Mann and myself. realclimate.org/index.php/arch…

Jeff Jeff Berardelli , indeed many print & broadcast meteorologists have missed the point of our cat 6 hurricane paper. However, Marshall Shepherd Dr. Marshall Shepherd has a editorial that makes it for us. forbes.com/sites/marshall…

Mega-hurricanes with wind speeds above 192 mph are becoming more and more common with climate change. As covered in The Guardian, a new paper with Michael Wehner Berkeley Lab as co-author suggests that we may need to create a Category 6 to describe them: theguardian.com/world/2024/feb…

Thanks Jeff Jeff Berardelli for the opportunity to clarify why we wrote this paper; to raise awareness about the dangers of climate change in hurricane prone regions (not to change hazard messaging when a storm is coming)

I try to explain on WCBS 880 why we introduced a hypothetical cat 6 hurricane category to highlight climate change danger and why a single number does not convey the danger of an impending storm Berkeley Lab omny.fm/shows/wcbsam-o…

2/2 We are also telling journalists that the National Hurricane Center's excellent products better inform the public about hazards than the Saffir-Simpson categories & encourage them to make use of such. Read the paper to understand that our messaging is about climate change only

1/2 Our message about the CAT6 paper is that climate change is making the strongest storms stronger. The SS scale can express the increasing danger of tropical cyclones in changing climate but a single number is clearly inadequate to convey the flood risks of an impending storm.

Adding a Category 6 to the scale that rates hurricanes could better describe storms with extremely fast wind speeds—which could increase in frequency as global temperatures rise, Nancy K. Walecki writes: theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

We introduce a hypothetical category 6 to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale to convey the increased risk of very intense tropical storm due to climate change Berkeley Lab pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Dr Marcus Noack and Dr Mark Risser | Advancing Gaussian Processes: The Noack-Risser Method: scientia.global/dr-marcus-noac… - via:Scientia

'using powerful 🖥️ models to calculate how much climate change will affect ❄️ in the future. They’ve found that 4.5 degrees F (2.5 degrees C) of warming above PI is likely to cause 🏔️ areas to experience low-to-no snow years'
energy.gov/science/articl…

👀 👇 nature.com/articles/s4155…

Interesting and important work by my colleague Yang Zhou Yang Zhou

On Climate One's final new episode of the year, we celebrate 2023 Schneider Award winner Dr. Ben Santer for his incredible contributions to the world of science communication. climateone.org/audio/ben-sant…