extreme event attribution

[ik-streem i-vent a-truh-byoo-shuhn]

noun

Meteorology, Climatology.

1. the field of scientific study that deals with the relationship between extreme weather and climate change.

Word History and Origins

Origin of extreme event attribution¹

First recorded in 2010–15

Example Sentences

But the burgeoning field of “extreme event attribution” comes close.

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Incidentally, I’d argue that extreme event attribution gains credibility from the fact that it doesn’t always tell the same story, that sometimes it says that climate change wasn’t the culprit.

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The study is the latest in a growing body of research known as extreme event attribution, or attribution science, which seeks to determine how much global warming has contributed to events such as heat waves, droughts and wildfires.

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That changed in the early 2000s, and extreme event attribution has since become a robust sub-field of climate science, he said.

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Critics complain that extreme event attribution, as the effort is known, overemphasizes public communications and underestimates uncertainty.

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