Operational extreme weather event attribution can quantify climate change loss and damages [Scholarly article - PLOS Climate, 2022]

Title:

Operational extreme weather event attribution can quantify climate change loss and damages

 

Authors:

Michael F. Wehner

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

& 

Kevin A. Reed

School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Published:

PLOS Climate, 1 February 2022

https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000013

 

Abstract:

“It is now well established that the influence of anthropogenic climate change on certain individual extreme weather events can be quantified by event attribution techniques. It is time that these activities move from the research community to the operational centers. Such routine evaluation of the human influence on extreme weather increases our scientific understanding and informs the public of climate change impacts. Furthermore, quantification of the human influence on extreme weather can be used to fairly evaluate climate change induced loss and damages”.

Association of COVID-19 pandemic with meteorological parameters over Singapore - Scholarly Article: Science of The Total Environment (2020)

Title:

Association of COVID-19 pandemic with meteorological parameters over Singapore

 

Authors:

Shantanu Kumar Pania, Neng-Huei Lin & Saginela Ravindra Babu

[All from the National Central University, Taoyuan 32001, Taiwan]

 

Published:

Science of The Total Environment, Volume 740, 20 October 2020, 140112

[Published online: 12 June 2020] 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720336330

Highlights:

* COVID-19 is an emerging infectious disease and highly contagious in nature. 

 

* Temperature, dew point, and absolute humidity showed positive significant associations with SARS-CoV-2 transmission.

 

* SARS-CoV-2 displayed negative associations with wind speed and ventilation coefficient.