Tag: Extremes
May 19, 2016
Expertise: Climate Science
Climate Science Climate Dynamics Climate Drivers Atmospheric Science Meteorology Extremes Scenarios and Projections Climate Change Model Downscaling National and Regional-Scale Projections State-by-state Projections Derived Variables…
Apr 15, 2016
The Relationship between the Madden–Julian Oscillation (MJO) and Southeastern New England Snowfall
Between January 24 and February 15, 2015, an incredible 90.2 inches of snow fell at Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts. Although snowfalls of this magnitude…
Mar 14, 2016
Detection and Attribution of Climate Extremes in the Observed Record
Kenneth Kunkel and Liqiang Sun of CICS-NC are coauthors on a paper that provides an overview of the science of detecting changes in climate extremes…
Dec 14, 2015
Global Land Surface Extremes of Precipitation
In an article published in the Journal of Extreme Events, CICS-NC’s Kenneth Kunkel and Rebekah Frankson analyze trends in heavy precipitation events and their relationships…
Feb 9, 2015
Temperature Extremes in a Warming Climate
We know that global and national average temperatures have been increasing since around the start of the 20th century. But have there also been increases…