Researchers' Collaborative Study Finds Hurricane Ian's Rainfall Increased Due to Climate Change

Researchers' Collaborative Study Finds Hurricane Ian's Rainfall Increased Due to Climate Change

October 7, 2022

Climate change made Hurricane Ian’s most extreme rainfall about 10% worse than it would have been without two centuries of greenhouse gas pollution, according to a first-take analysis of the storm by two U.S. climate researchers.

Michael Wehner of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Kevin Reed of Stony Brook University came together to use a publicly available modeling to analyze rainfall and other metrics including strength, intensification and sea level rise.

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