Across much of the northern hemisphere, extreme weather events like heat waves and heavy precipitation have increased in frequency and severity over the last several decades. A new study from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) shows that one proposed partial explanation, so-called “quasiresonant amplification of quasistationary Rossby waves,” may not be capable of explaining any of this increase in severe weather events.

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