{"id":126344,"date":"2021-08-16T10:22:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T17:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/fingerprints-of-extreme-weather-revealed-by-new-statistical-approach"},"modified":"2021-08-16T10:22:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T17:22:34","slug":"fingerprints-of-extreme-weather-revealed-by-new-statistical-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/fingerprints-of-extreme-weather-revealed-by-new-statistical-approach","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fingerprints\u2019 of extreme weather revealed by new statistical approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fingerprints-of-extreme-weather-revealed-by-new-statistical-approach.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Determining if particular extreme hot or cold spells were caused by climate change could be made easier by a new mathematical method.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/statistical+method\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">statistical method<\/a>, developed by physicists at the University of Reading and Uppsala University in Sweden, looks at the characteristics, or \u201cfingerprints,\u201d of a specific extreme weather event of interest, like a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/heatwave\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heatwave<\/a>, in order to ascertain whether it can be attributed to natural <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/climate\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">climate<\/a> variability of the climate or is a unique product of global warming.<\/p>\n<p>The method also allows predictions to be made about how likely extreme climate events will be in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Determining if particular extreme hot or cold spells were caused by climate change could be made easier by a new mathematical method. The statistical method, developed by physicists at the University of Reading and Uppsala University in Sweden, looks at the characteristics, or \u201cfingerprints,\u201d of a specific extreme weather event of interest, like a heatwave, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,2229,219,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-mathematics","category-physics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}