Table 2. Detection and attribution studies linking extreme weather events to climate change from 2015 to 2020.

	Anthropogenic influence increased event likelihood or strength	Anthropogenic influence decreased event likelihood or strength	Anthropogenic influence not identified or uncertain
Heat (36 studies; 32 events)	Events ending in 2015 in India, Pakistan, China, Indonesia, Europe,8,52 Egypt, Japan, southern India and Sri Lanka, Australia, and worldwide;8,53 in 2016 in southern Africa, Thailand, Asia, and worldwide; in 2017 in Australia,54 the USA, South Korea, western Europe,55 China, and the Euro-Mediterranean region; in 2018 in northeast Asia, the Iberian Peninsula, and Europe; in 2019 in France56 and western Europe;57 and in 2020 in Australia58	··	Events ending in 2015–16 in India59
Cold and frost (nine studies; eight events)	Events ending in 2016 in Australia	Events ending in 2015 in the USA; in 2016 in China; and in 2018 in North America60 and the UK	··
Drought and reduced precipitation (26 studies; 24 events)	Events ending in 2015 in the USA, Canada, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and Australia; in 2016 in southern Africa and Thailand; in 2017 in east Africa, the USA, and China; and in 2018 in South Africa,61 China, and the USA	··	Events ending in 2015 in Brazil,62 Nigeria, and Ethiopia;63 in 2016 in Brazil, the USA, Somalia,64 and western Europe; in 2017 in Kenya65 and the USA; and in 2019 in Australia58
Wildfire (five studies; six events)	Events ending in 2015 in the USA; in 2016 in Australia and western North America; in 2018 in Australia; and in 2020 in Australia58	··	Events ending in 2017 in Australia
Heavy precipitation and flood (23 studies; 19 events)	Events ending in 2015 in China and the USA; in 2016 in France,66 China, and Louisiana (USA);67 in 2017 in Bangladesh, Peru, Uruguay, and China; and in 2018 in the USA and Japan6,68	Events ending in 2018 in China	Events ending in 2015 in India; in 2016 in Germany66 and Australia; in 2017 in Bangladesh;69 and in 2018 in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Zambia, Australia, India,70 and China*
Storms (eight studies; eight events)	Events ending in 2015 in the UK71 and the western north Pacific;72 in 2017 in the USA;73 in 2018 in the USA;74 and in 2019 in the USA75	··	Events ending in 2016 in the USA and in 2018 in western Europe76
Marine heat and melting sea ice (13 studies; ten events)	Events ending in 2015 in the northern hemisphere; in 2016 in the USA, Australia, the Coral Sea,7,77 the North Pole,7,78 the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea, and the central equatorial Pacific; and in 2018 in the Tasman Sea and the Bering Sea	··	Events ending in 2015 in the central equatorial Pacific and in 2016 in the eastern equatorial Pacific
Total studies	81	6	27
Total events	76	5	28

Events have been listed according to the year in which they ended. In some countries and regions, multiple events in the same year were studied. References were gained from papers published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society,^5–8 or otherwise are listed separately.

^*Anthropogenic influence had varied effects.