Speaker: Travis O'Brien, Indiana University, Bloomington
Global climate change already impacts human and natural systems, such as agriculture, human health, and ecosystems. Building resilience to an uncertain future climate requires developing credible projections for how climate might change. This is particularly the case for the scales at which critical decisions about how we manage human and natural systems are made: e.g., state, township, and city. This requires (1) methods for producing climate projections at these decision-relevant scales, and (2) assessing and improving the credibility of projections at these scales. This credibility hinges critically on the representation of impactful weather phenomena that define regional climates: ranging from fog to atmospheric rivers to hurricanes. In this presentation, I introduce state-of-the-science methods for producing high-resolution climate projections, I describe novel approaches for evaluating impactful weather in these projections, and I describe prospects for leveraging these approaches to improve our understanding of future climate change.
Email Sarah Preheim (spreheim@jhu.edu) to register
