Advancing Climate Attribution Science for Extreme Events, Associated Impacts, and Applications for Climate Justice
Advancing Climate Attribution Science for Extreme Events, Associated Impacts, and Applications for Climate Justice
Session ID#: 279600
Session Description:
Attribution science is pivotal in quantifying and demonstrating the degree to which anthropogenic climate change influences weather and climate events. As attribution science matures, new and extended methodologies are being developed to attribute both events and trends, and their impacts, to anthropogenic climate change. Attribution science may also inform certain justice-related questions society is facing, by informing legal cases or operationalizing policy. This session brings together researchers who are studying attributable extremes and trends on regional or global scales, extending attribution science methodologies into new realms, and exploring how attribution science can be used to support climate justice. We welcome submissions that: develop innovative datasets (including machine learning) for detection and attribution; explore how attribution can inform climate litigation or policy; and examine methodological constraints and advancements in conducting event attribution, source attribution, or impact attribution.
Index Terms:
0230 Impacts of climate change: human health [GEOHEALTH]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]
Primary Convener: Emily L Williams, University of California Merced, Geography, Merced, United States
Conveners: Kristina Dahl, Climate Central, Princeton, United States, Huanping Huang, Louisiana State University, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Baton Rouge, United States and Marc J. Alessi, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, United States
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