Three researchers from D-USYS worked on IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report
- D-USYS
- Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science
Heavy precipitation and heat waves are expected to increase in the future. This is one of the findings of the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). For the comprehensive analysis, a core team of 234 experts from 66 countries worked up the scientific basis. Among them were Sonia Seneviratne, Erich Fischer and Martin Wild from the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science (IAC) at the Department D-USYS.
The frequency and intensity of heat waves and extreme precipitation have increased since 1950. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the main cause of these developments is human-induced climate change.
"Some of the recently observed heat waves are extremely unlikely to have occurred without human influence," says Sonia Seneviratne, professor at ETH Zurich and coordinating lead author of the chapter on changes in weather and climate extremes.
- external pagePress release of SCNAT (in German), 09 August 2021
- external pageNews of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 09 August 2021
- Short video about the external pageSixth Assessment Report