[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is there any evidence to suggest that climate change will impact
> "extreme events" (extreme heat, cold, precipitation, storms)
> significantly worse than would be expected from an equivalent
> temperature change due to either distance from the equator or the
> season of the year?
I'm not sure what you are getting at with "distance from the equator or
the season of the year".
For the most part, I think observational evidence is insufficient to
conclude with any confidence whether extremes are increasing at a more
or less rapid rate than due to a simple shift in the mean of the
distribution (indeed in many cases a shift in the mean may not be
clearly identified). I've seen an analysis of rainfall in Japan which
make it look like the data shows an increase that matches the model
hindcast pretty well, but there is a lot of variability in the data. So
evidence is pretty much limited to model forecasts.
James
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