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https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-817-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-6-817-2025
Research article
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07 Aug 2025
Research article |  | 07 Aug 2025

Attributing the occurrence and intensity of extreme events with the flow analogue method

Robin Noyelle, Davide Faranda, Yoann Robin, Mathieu Vrac, and Pascal Yiou

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Properties of extreme meteorological and climatological events are changing under human-caused climate change. Extreme event attribution methods seek to estimate the contribution of global warming in the probability and intensity changes of extreme events. Here we propose a procedure to estimate these quantities for the flow analogue method, which compares the observed event to similar events in the past.
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