Michael Wehner

Datos Biográficos

ID5132825
NOMBREMichael Wehner
NOMBRESMichael
APELLIDOWehner
FIRMAWEHNER M
AFILIACIONESLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
ORCID0000-0001-8423-7870
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR9
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2012
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Climate change and federal aid disbursements after Hurricane Harvey

    Open AccessKevin T Smiley, Ilan Noy et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    The role climate change plays in increasing the burden placed on governments and insurers to pay for recovery has not been extensively explored and is the focus of this study. This study examines the impacts of climate change attributed flooding on federal disaster aid disbursement in Harris County, Texas following Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Our approach uses flood models to estimate the amount of flood damages attributable and not attributable to…

  • Event attribution is ready to inform loss and damage negotiations

    Open AccessIlan Noy, Michael Wehner et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2023

  • Is land use producing robust signals in future projections from Earth system models, all else being equal

    Open AccessClaudia Tebaldi, Michael Wehner et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    We use six Earth system models (ESMs) run under SSP3-7.0, a scenario characterized by a relatively large land use change (LUC) over the 21st century, and under a variant of the same scenario where a significantly different pattern of LUC, taken from SSP1-2.6, was used, all else being equal. Our goal is to identify changes in climate extremes between the two scenarios that are statistically significant and robust across the ESMs. The motivation fo…

  • On the attribution of the impacts of extreme weather events to anthropogenic climate change

    Open AccessSarah Perkins‐Kirkpatrick, Dáithí A Stone et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Investigations into the role of anthropogenic climate change in extreme weather events are now starting to extend into analysis of anthropogenic impacts on non-climate (e.g. socio-economic) systems. However, care needs to be taken when making this extension, because methodological choices regarding extreme weather attribution can become crucial when considering the events’ impacts. The fraction of attributable risk (FAR) method, useful in extreme…

  • Human contribution to the record-breaking June and July 2019 heatwaves in Western Europe

    Open AccessRobert Vautard, Marcel Van Aalst et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Two extreme heatwaves hit Western Europe in the summer of 2019, with historical records broken by more than a degree in many locations, and significant societal impacts, including excess mortality of several thousand people. The extent to which human influence has played a role in the occurrence of these events has been of large interest to scientists, media and decision makers. However, the outstanding nature of these events poses challenges for…

  • On the potential impact of a half-degree warming on cold and warm temperature extremes in mid-latitude North America

    Open AccessMonika Barcikowska, Ángel G Muñoz et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    This study focuses on potential impacts of climate change on the early spring (March–April) temperature and its extremes in the mid-latitudes of North America, discriminated between the 1.5 °C and 2 °C levels of global warming, as projected by a suit of numerical experiments. The results suggest relatively mild seasonal average warming (0.25 °C–1.5 °C), but also an intensification of both warm and cold temperature extremes. The derived changes fe…

  • A temporary hiatus in warming of extreme temperatures is not unusual, nor inconsistent with model simulations of human-induced climate change

    Open AccessMichael Wehner, Michael F WehnerARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2014

    Sillman et al (2014) find that observed trends of extremely hot days and cold nights are consistent with the current generation of climate models. Short periods of localized decreases in these extreme temperatures are not unusual and the Sillman et al results increase confidence in projections of future changes in extreme temperature. © 2014 IOP Publishing Ltd

  • Impacts of climate extremes on gross primary production under global warming

    Open AccessIan N Williams, Margaret Torn et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2014

    The impacts of historical droughts and heat-waves on ecosystems are often considered indicative of future global warming impacts, under the assumption that water stress sets in above a fixed high temperature threshold. Historical and future (RCP8.5) Earth system model (ESM) climate projections were analyzed in this study to illustrate changes in the temperatures for onset of water stress under global warming. The ESMs examined here predict sharp …

  • Bio-Inspired Design of Soft Robotic Assistive Devices

    Eugene C Goldfield, Yong-Lae Park et al.ARTICLEEcological Psychology2012

    Wearable assistive robotic devices are characterized by an interface, a meeting place of living tissue and mechanical forces, at which potential and kinetic energy are converted to one or the other form. Ecological scientists may make important contributions to the design of device interfaces because of a functional perspective on energy and information exchange. For ecological scientists, (a) behavioral forms are an assembly of whole functional …