July 10, 2012

State of the Climate 2011 and detection and attribution of extreme events

Speakers:

Every year the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) publish their State of the Climate Report. The Global chapter of this report assesses global climate throughout 2011, and this year, for the first time, the publication also included an Attribution Supplement.

This took extreme recent weather and climate events – including the cold December of 2010 and the warm November of 2011 – and examined them in the context of climate change and human influence.