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Successive, extreme cold events in the Northern Hemisphere this winter may be linked
Leading meteorologists analyzed the extreme, successive cold events in North America and East Asia in November and December 2022 to improve prediction models and mitigate future economic loss and casualties caused by cold surges.
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Team conducts reanalyses assessment of mean and extreme climates over West Africa
An international team of scientists has reviewed the effectiveness of reanalysis data products for studying the climate over West Africa.
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Climate researchers correct faulty rainfall predictions for China’s breadbasket
Climate models were not doing a good job of predicting how spring rainfall was changing over China’s northeast, the country’s breadbasket region, potentially threatening food security, even though these same models were working just fine elsewhere. Researchers have now found what was missing from their understanding.
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Human activities increase likelihood of more extreme heatwaves, researchers find
Extreme heatwaves are likely to increase in frequency and severity, researchers report in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, largely due to human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. The finding comes the day after the United Kingdom records its hottest ever temperature and a year after an unprecedented North American heatwave doubled average temperatures and resulted in nearly 1,500 deaths.
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