Supercomputer Simulations Confirm Observations of 2015 India/Pakistan Heat Waves
Thursday, December 15, 2016 - 16:02
in Earth & Climate
A paper released December 15 during the American Geophysical Union fall meeting points to new evidence of human influence on extreme weather events. After examining observational and simulated temperature and heat indexes, the research team--which included three scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory--concluded that two separate deadly heat waves that occurred in India and Pakistan in the summer of 2015 "were exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change."