New computation method for climate extremes: Researchers reveal 10-fold increase in heat over Europe

New computation method for climate extremes: Researchers reveal 10-fold increase in heat over Europe

How much will heat, flooding, drought and storms increase as a result of human-induced climate change? In a groundbreaking study, climate researcher Gottfried Kirchengast and his team at the University of Graz have developed a new method for computing the hazards from extreme events: it can compute all relevant hazard metrics for events such as heat waves, floods and droughts in any region worldwide with unprecedented information content.