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AGU-AMS Joint Session on GeoHealth Risks: Detection to Attribution to Action
AGU-AMS Joint Session on GeoHealth Risks: Detection to Attribution to Action
Session ID#: 79484
Session Description:
In celebration of the American Meteorological Association’s and AGU’s Centennial year, the AMS Board on Environment and Health and the AGU GeoHealth Section are co-sponsoring joint sessions that highlight the historical contributions of past breakthroughs and look towards future discoveries to better manage growing grand challenges, including pollution, food- and water-security, and climate change.
Detection and attribution of the impacts of climate change on human, natural, and managed systems relies on formal scientific methods that determine whether an aspect of a system function has changed since a baseline or reference period, and then to determine whether / how much of that change could be attributed to climate change. Detection and attribution studies can identify where climate change is increasing injuries, illnesses, and deaths, within the context of other drivers of trends. Understanding these relative contributions can be used to modify current and planned adaptation measures to increase their effectiveness.
Co-Organized:
- GC - Global Environmental Change
Co-Sponsor(s):
- AMS: American Meteorological Society -
Index Terms:
0230 Impacts of climate change: human health [GEOHEALTH]
1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1626 Global climate models [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
Primary Convener: Mark Mocettini Shimamoto, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
Convener: Kristie Ebi, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
Primary Liaison: Mark Mocettini Shimamoto, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
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