Decades of data and research indicate that human-caused climate change is altering the frequency and intensity of several types of extreme events, such as heat waves and extreme rainfall events. Even...

Climate change hazard index reveals combined risks to United States drinking water utilities, Lyle, Zia J, VanBriesen, Jeanne M, Samaras, Constantine

Advances in understanding and managing catastrophic risk in a changing climate, Moore, Frances C, Done, James M, Hereid, Kelly, Lee, Chia-Ying

Winner of the Robert F. Sibert Medal Follow a blue whale’s enormous body to the bottom of the ocean, where it sets the stage for a bustling new ecosystem to flourish. All living things must one...

Rapid transitions between extreme wet and extreme dry conditions — ‘hydroclimate whiplash’ — have marked environmental and societal impacts. This Review outlines observed and projected changes in hydr...

31st Annual CESM Workshop

NSF NCAR GDEX

Humans acutely experience climate change when they encounter extreme environmental conditions, but scientific definitions of “extreme” often don’t reflect communities’ complex lived experiences.

AbstractThe effectiveness of the Florida Building Code (FBC) against the impacts of wind speed, duration of strong winds, and wind directional change is quantified. For seven historical hurricanes tha...