| Session Details | |
| Section | AS - Atmospheric Sciences |
| Session Title | Understanding Changes In Regional Weather And Climate Extremes: Detection, Attribution, And Modeling |
| Main Convener | Prof. Cheng-Ta Chen (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Michael Wehner (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States) Prof. Seung-Ki Min (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea, South) Prof. Tianjun Zhou (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Dr. Hideo Shiogama (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan) |
| Session Description | There are accumulating evidences suggesting that observed trends in regional weather and climate extremes over the recent decades can be attributed to human influences. Similarly, uncommon local weather and climate extreme events occurred in past few years may be linked to anthropogenic impact. However, reliable modeling works, unique experiment design, and advanced statistics framework are all needed to support and substantiate the studies on detection and attribution of change in weather and climate extremes. Attributing causes to changes in weather extremes with small spatial and short temporal scales remains very controversial due to the model reliability issues and strong dynamical forcing factors associated with the event. Further, it is even more challenging to estimate where and when loss and damage due to weather and climate disaster can be attributed to anthropogenic climate change. To help quantifying human contributions to the impact of climate change on extreme, We invite abstracts on all aspects of detection and attribution of anthropogenic influence on regional weather and climate extremes, including studies focused on methodological advances to address these challenges in light of the latest developments in applied statistics, climate modeling, and Earth observation. |