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Rice University engineers developed a deep learning-based system to forecast heat waves and cold spells with 85% accuracy up to five days in advance. Co-authored by…
The briefing reviews economic losses and fatalities from natural hazards in the EEA-38 countries (32 EEA members plus Western Balkan nations) from 1980 to 2023. Total…
On March 13, 2013, the Earth Institute held its fourth seminar in the Sustainable Development Seminar Series at Columbia University, titled “Ch Ch Ch Changes –…
AI is making strides in weather forecasting, with models that outperform traditional systems in speed and resource efficiency. However, they face limitations; AI predictions are based…
On June 22, 2023, RIKEN scientists announced a method to mitigate extreme weather events like torrential rain by leveraging chaos in weather systems. Led by Takemasa…
Extreme weather events pose significant risks to life and economies, and while the physical causes are known, the impact of climate change on these events remains…
Climate scientists at Utah State University contributed to a Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society supplement examining the snowpack drought in Washington State during 2014-2015. This…
The article discusses the emerging field of “event attribution,” which examines the links between extreme weather events and climate change, aiming to improve predictions of such…
The 2017 NOAA and American Meteorological Society report reveals that three extreme weather events in 2016—record global heat, extreme heat in Asia, and an unusually warm…
A research project by the Universities of Bristol, Exeter, and Bath predicts sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) this week, potentially leading to snowstorms and severe weather. SSW…