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Observed Climate Changes and Impacts
Table 1: Selection of record-breaking meteorological events since 2000, their societal impacts and qualitative confidence level that the
meteorological event can be attributed to climate change. Adapted from Ref. 1 (continued)
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K. Trenberth and J. Fassullo, J. Geoph. Res., doi: 2012JD018020 (2012).
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W. Lau and K.M. Kim, J. Hydrometeorology 13, 392 (2012).
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C. Hong, H. Hsu, N. Lin et al., Geophys. Res. Let. 38 (L13806), 6 (2011).
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Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Australian climate variability & change – Time series graphs, Available at http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/change/
timeseries.cgi, (2011).
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R.C. van den Honert and J. McAneney, Water 3, 1149 (2011).
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NOAA, http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/hazards/2010/12. (published online January 2011) (2011).
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Simon L. Lewis, Paulo M. Brando, Oliver L. Phillips et al., s 331, 554 (2011).
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WMO, http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre/press_releases/gcs_2011_en.html (2011).
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J. Cattiaux, BAMS, 1054 (2012).
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NOAA, http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/2011/8 (published online September 2011) (2011b).
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D.E. Rupp, P.W. Mote, N. Massey et al., BAMS, 1053 (2012).
32
P.B. Duffy and C. Tebaldi, cc 2012 (111) (2012).
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NOAA, http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/hazards/2011/8 (published online September 2011) (2011c).
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NOAA, http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/2012/7 (published online Aug 2012) (2012).
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World-Bank, World Bank – Press release (available: http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/2012/08/30/severe-droughts-drive-food-prices-higher-threatening-poor)
(2012).
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