Uploaded February 2024 | Updated September 2026, 18 minutes ago

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Speaker: Dr. James Overland

Abstract: New environmental extremes are currently underway and are much greater than those in previous records. These are mostly regional, singular events that are caused by global change/local weather combinations and are larger than the impact of linear temperature increases projected using climate models. These new states cannot easily be assigned probabilities because they often have no historical analogs. Thus, the term super climate extremes is used.

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