Attributing climate change, extreme events, and their impacts: quantifying contributions from external forcing, internal climate variability, and/or other drivers
Convener:
Sabine UndorfECSECS
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Co-conveners:
Raul R. WoodECSECS,
Sebastian SippelECSECS,
Nicola MaherECSECS,
Lukas Gudmundsson,
Andrea DittusECSECS,
Aglae JezequelECSECS
Orals
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Tue, 16 Apr, 08:30–12:25 (CEST), 14:00–15:40 (CEST), 16:15–17:55 (CEST) Room F1
Posters on site
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Attendance Wed, 17 Apr, 10:45–12:30 (CEST) | Display Wed, 17 Apr, 08:30–12:30 Hall X5
Posters virtual
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Attendance Wed, 17 Apr, 14:00–15:45 (CEST) | Display Wed, 17 Apr, 08:30–18:00 vHall X5
More specifically the field of climate change Detection and Attribution (D&A) identifies historical changes over long timescales, typically multi-decadal, of weather and climate as well as their impacts. D&A specifically quantifies the contributions of various external forcings as their signal emerges from internal climate variability. Driven by complex mechanisms, internal variability can itself change under external forcing, complicating D&A analyses and the projection of future changes. Moreover, event attribution (EA) assesses how human-induced climate change is modifying the frequency and/or intensity of weather and climate events (e.g., a heavy-precipitation event, a heatwave), their impacts (e.g., economic loss or loss of life associated with flooding) and/or, in newer framings, impact events (e.g., a crop failure). These and other analyses focusing on attributing impacts combine observations with model-based evidence or process understanding. The attribution of climate change impacts is particularly complex due to the influence of additional non-climatic human influences.
This session highlights recent studies from the broad spectrum of attribution research that address some or all steps of the climate-impact chain from emissions to climate variables, to impacts in natural, managed, and human systems and aims to explore the diversity of methods employed across disciplines and schools of thought. It also covers a broad range of applications, case studies, current challenges of the field, and avenues for expanding the attribution research community.
It specifically also includes studies that focus on separating, quantifying, and understanding internal variability and its changes across timescales as it constitutes a key uncertainty in climate attribution.
Presentations will cover common and new methodologies (improved statistical methods, statistical causality, Artificial Intelligence) using single climate realisations, large ensembles, or other counterfactuals, on single climate variable or compound/cascading events, on impacts on natural, managed, or human systems.
Coffee break
Chairpersons: Aglae Jezequel, Lukas Gudmundsson, Nicola Maher
Lunch break
Chairpersons: Sebastian Sippel, Lukas Gudmundsson, Sabine Undorf
15:20–15:40
Poster preview I
Coffee break
Chairpersons: Raul R. Wood, Nicola Maher, Andrea Dittus
Future Slower Reduction of Anthropogenic Aerosols Enhances Extratropical Ocean Surface Warming Trends
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