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State of the Science Fact Sheet: How Human-Caused Climate Change Affects Extreme Events

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Extreme weather and climate events have significant impacts on society and ecosystems. Climate records show that several types of extreme events have changed over the past 50 to 100 years. Climate science strives to detect changes in weather and climate extremes, and to assess the extent to which human-caused climate change has influenced extreme events, including their frequency and intensity. Climate models are used to project future human-caused changes in extreme events.

Source: NOAA Institutional Repository

DOI: 10.25923/7rp9-7t46

Authors: Knutson, Thomas, Hoell, Andrew

Institutions: NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory

Language: English

Topic: Climate variability and models

Subfield: Global and Planetary Change

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Climate action

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W6927138784