Record High 2022 September-Mean Temperature in Western North America

2024/02/01 by Jinbo Xie, Qi Tang, Jean‐Christophe Golaz +1 · 1 voice
Environmental Science · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Climate variability and models #Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations #Climate Change and Health Impacts

paper · pdf · doi:10.1175/bams-d-23-0148.1

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Abstract

Abstract Human-induced warming is estimated to have increased occurrence probability (magnitude) of the record-breaking September 2022 heat event in western North America by 6–67 times (0.6–1 K) by E3SMv2 and even higher by coupled regional refined model (RRM) simulations.

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Discussions

• Human-induced warming is estimated to have increased occurrence probability (magnitude) of the record-breaking September 2022 heat event in western North America by 6–67 times (0.6–1 K) by E3SMv2 and [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]

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