Attributing extreme weather events What if we could better prepare for hazards like flooding and heat waves by understanding the changing risks of extreme weather events? This short film explains the process behind attribution science and its importance in preparing for the future.

Aerosols: How they affect atmospheric warming Like greenhouse gases, aerosols affect the Earth’s radiative balance, intercepting solar radiation and either reflecting it back or absorbing it high in the atmosphere. This short film from the Raising Risk Awareness initiative looks at how aerosols affect atmospheric warming.

Introducing Raising Risk Awareness This short film introduces the Raising Risk Awareness (RRA) initiative, which uses state-of-the-art science to help Asian and African societies to understand the role of climate change in extreme weather events and prepare for future ones.

Making informed decisions to prepare for extreme weather events (individual graphics) This resource presents individual graphics that help explain the Raising Risk Awareness initiative and the importance of extreme weather attribution towards helping decision-makers and the public to prioritise adaptation solutions and reduce vulnerability.

Making informed decisions to prepare for extreme weather events This infographic sets out why attributing extreme weather events is critical and how the process works. This infographic is available in English, Swahili, Hindi and Amharic.

Explaining real-time extreme weather event attribution This video presents the method which can assess the fraction of attributable risk of a severe weather event due to an external driver in real-time.

Factsheet: Unscrambling climate and weather information This factsheet, from Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters, provides tips for integrating climate and weather information into development projects.