The webinar series will consist of 7 lectures covering the basic concepts of attribution science and presenting selected case studies of climate impact attribution.
The series is organised by the PROCLIAS-ISIMIP project, led by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (pik-potsdam.de)
Registration to the webinar is now open at:
https://eveeno.com/proclias
Abstract:
Detecting and monitoring climate change impacts becomes ever more critical as we move deeper into the climate crisis. The recent Nobel Prize to Klaus Hasselmann, who developed the theoretical foundation for the detection and attribution of anthropogenic climate change, underlines the timeliness of this line of research. Building on this early work, attribution focusing on the physical climate system is a well-developed discipline. By contrast, the attribution of the impacts of anthropogenic climate change on natural and human systems, where non-climatic drivers play an important role, is a much less developed and less formalized field of research.
This series of 7 online lectures aims to explore this emerging field of climate impact attribution. In the first part of the series, participants will be introduced to the basic concepts of classical climate trend and event attribution, and the conceptual framing of climate impact attribution. The second part of the series will feature selected case studies, exemplifying the specific challenges of impact attribution and showing most recent methodological developments. As such the series can serve as a training to climate impact scientists who have not previously worked on formal detection and attribution, as well as a platform to intensify exchanges between the currently still quite separated attribution communities represented in the IPCC Working Groups I and II.
Program:
The lectures will always take place 13.00 – 14.00 CET/CEST.
[27 Jan] Gabriele Hegerl: Climate change detection & attribution in the context of IPCC WG1
[3 Mar] Friederike Otto: Attributing of extreme weather events
[28 Apr] Katja Frieler & Matthias Mengel: Climate impact attribution in the context of IPCC WG2
[9 May] Max Callaghan & Quentin Lejeune: A database of 100,000 studies on attributable climate impacts derived with machine learning: methodology and potential uses or follow-up analyses
[23 May] Frank Kreienkamp: Attribution of heavy rainfall event leading to severe flooding in Western Europe in July 2021
[14 Jun] Benjamin Sultan: Attribution of crop production loss in West Africa
[5 Jul] Luke Grant: Attribution of physical changes in freshwater lake systems
Recordings are available here:
PROCLIAS-ISIMIP Webinar Series on Climate Impact Attribution
