A team of climate scientists in the UK has launched an ambitious citizen science effort to quickly assess the role that manmade global warming may have played in that region’s extraordinarily wet winter
The program, known as the Weather@Home 2014 project, is part of a longer term and international push to develop scientific techniques to gain insight into the relationship between global warming and extreme weather events, from heavy precipitation events to heat waves.
The winter of 2013-14 was one of the UK’s wettest on record, with many areas experiencing prolonged and damaging flooding, the total cost of which is likely to reach into the billions of dollars. The flooding resulted from a seemingly never-ending parade of North Atlantic storms that struck the area, bringing heavy rains, snow and high winds Read more…
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