ClimRise Laboratory

1 Introduction and Background In industrialised societies, the population spends the majority of their day indoors (US EPA: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 2024; Lazaridis 2025; Brasche and Bischof 2005), where their thermal environment can be artificially modified as it fluctuates in response to outdoor conditions.

1 Introduction Precipitation variability and trends are important to climate scientists because of the high-impact nature of precipitation and its potential to change in unpredictable and unpleasant ways with climate change (Dai 2006; Trenberth 2011; Trenberth 2014). The most consistent premise for global precipitation change is that global warming will intensify the global hydrological cycle and increase precipitation (Allan et al.

1 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Climate classifications are a key tool employed by climatologists to help identify key modes of atmospheric variability at a variety of spatiotemporal scales, and to relate these categories to numerous surface-based outcomes of interest (Lee & Sheridan, 2016). Dating back to the early- to mid-1900s, climate classifications have a rich history in the atmospheric sciences.