Authors
Ruksana Rimi, Karsten Haustein, Emily Barbour, Sarah Sparrow, Sihan Li, David Wallom, Myles Allen
Publication date
2020/5/6
Journal
EGU General Assembly 2020
Publisher
Copernicus GmbH
Description
For public, scientists and policy-makers, it is important to know to what extent human-induced climate change played (or did not play) a role behind changing risks of extreme weather events. Probabilistic event attribution (PEA) can provide scientific information regarding this association and reveal whether and to what extent external drivers of climate change have influenced the probability of high-impact weather events. To date, most of the PEA-based studies have focused on extreme events of mid-latitudes and predominantly events that have occurred in the developed countries. Developing countries located at the tropical monsoon regions are underrepresented in this field of research, despite that fact that these countries are highly climate vulnerable, often experience extreme weather events that cause severe damages and have the least capacity to adapt.
Bangladesh, a South Asian country with tropical …