Event Attribution and the Precipitation Record for England and Wales

22 Pages Posted: 11 Mar 2017

Date Written: March 8, 2017

Abstract

A month by month analysis of the precipitation record for England and Wales at an annual time scale for the 251-year study period 1766-2016 does not show the patterns in the data implied by the proposition that global warming has increased the amount and variance of precipitation such that the autumn floods of 2000 in England and Wales can be explained in terms of these effects. These results are inconsistent with the finding of event attribution analysis that the autumn 2000 floods in England and Wales are attributable to fossil fuel emissions and they imply that these floods can be explained as probabilistic outcomes of random natural variability.

Keywords: hydrology, precipitation, time series, dependence, persistence, global warming, climate change, carbon emissions, extreme weather, heat waves, droughts, floods, probabilistic event attribution, PEA

Suggested Citation

Munshi, Jamal, Event Attribution and the Precipitation Record for England and Wales (March 8, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2929159 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2929159

Jamal Munshi (Contact Author)

Sonoma State University ( email )

1801 East Cotati Avenue
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
United States

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