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The Science of Extreme Event Attribution — Which Analyzes Climate Change’s Influence on Specific Weather Events — Has Advanced, But Challenges Remain

News Release

A new report from the National Academies provides a comprehensive assessment of the current capabilities of extreme event attribution (EEA) — a scientific field that analyzes whether and to what extent human-caused climate change influenced an individual extreme weather event, such as a heat wave or large-scale heavy rainfall.

Jul 15, 2026

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National Academies Launch Fast-Track Review of Latest Evidence for Whether Greenhouse Gas Emissions Endanger Public Health and Welfare

News Release

Aug 7, 2025

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Understanding Gulf Ocean Systems Initiative Marks 10,000 Profiles of the Loop Current

Program News

Investments supported by the Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have made the Gulf one of the most intensively sampled bodies of water in the world, providing the foundation for improved decision-making related to weather events and offshore energy production.

Apr 7, 2025

The UGOS team at the 2024 UGOS annual meeting in College Station, Texas.

Featured Publications

Improving Future U.S. Drought Assessment

Consensus Study Report

2026

Developing a Research Agenda on Contrails and Their Climate Impacts

Consensus Study Report

2025

Biodiversity and Climate Change Assessment: Review of Draft Chapters

Consensus Study Report

2025

A Research Agenda to Protect Human Health and Build Resilience in the Face of a Changing Climate

NAM Special Publication

2025

Advancing Risk Communication with Decision-Makers for Extreme Tropical Cyclones and Other Atypical Climate Events: Proceedings of a Workshop

Proceedings

2024

Featured work

Adaptive Capacities for Transformation (ACT) Initiative

Educational/Outreach Activity

Review of Draft Chapters of the Biodiversity and Climate Change Assessment

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Foundational Research Gaps and Future Directions for Digital Twins

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Compounding Disasters in Gulf Coast Communities, 2020-2021: Impacts, Findings, and Lessons Learned

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Developing a Research Agenda for Carbon Dioxide Removal and Reliable Sequestration

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Advancing Social and Behavioral Science Research and Application within the Weather Enterprise

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Evaluating NOAA's Plan to Mitigate the Loss of Total Solar Irradiance Measurements from Space

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Indicators for Understanding Global Climate Change

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Stabilization Targets for Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Concentrations

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033: Panel on Space Weather Science and Applications

Other

Units

Gulf Data, Analytics, and Impact

Oversight Unit

Earth Systems and Resources Program Area

Oversight Unit

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Gulf Research Program

Oversight Unit

National Cooperative Highway Research Program

Oversight Unit

Aeronautics, Space, and Astronomy Program Area

Oversight Unit

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Center for Health, People, and Places (CHPP)

Oversight Unit

Transformative Science and Technology for the Department of Defense: Standing Committee and Seminar Series

Standing Committee

Space Weather Roundtable

Roundtable/Forum

Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate

Standing Committee

Space Studies Board (SSB)

Standing Committee

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