A14G:
Understanding and Attributing Extreme Weather Events and Their Impacts across Actors and Spatial Scales II (Half Session)


Session ID#: 11114

Session Description:
It is now widely accepted that “extreme event attribution” is possible, albeit in a probabilistic sense and recognizing the role of multiple causal factors. Annual assessments of the role of climate change in individual weather and climate events are being compiled using a range of approaches (BAMS:Peterson et al, 2012 & 2013, Herring et al., 2014). There is increasing interest in using event attribution in risk assessment, public communication, and, eventually, international negotiations. In order for the science to inform the latter, only attributing the role of climate change is likely insufficient and the relative roles of hazard and vulnerability need to be included when assessing impacts. This session aims to explore new developments in both the science and communication of attribution and would seek to include contributions from the detection and attribution, climate impacts, and disaster risk communities.
Primary Convener:  Friederike Elly Luise Otto, University of Oxford, ECI/School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Heidi M Cullen, Climate Central, Princeton, NJ, United States, Erin Coughlan, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate CEntre, Boston, United States and Judith Perlwitz, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs:  Katelin Childers, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, James E Overland, NOAA Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States, Katja Frieler, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany and Friederike Elly Luise Otto, University of Oxford, ECI/School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison:  Katelin Childers, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States
Index Terms:

1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Providing the Larger Climate Context During Extreme Weather - Lessons from Local Television News (61942)
Heidi M Cullen, Climate Central, Princeton, NJ, United States and Monica Woods, ABC, ABC10 KXTV, Sacramento, CA, United States
Analysing the response of European ecosystems to droughts and heat waves within ISI-MIP2 simulations. (72268)
Alexandra-Jane Henrot1, Marie Dury1,2, Louis M Francois1, Guy Munhoven3, Ingrid Jacquemin1, Andrew D Friend4, Tim Tito Rademacher5, Andrew J Hacket Pain6 and Thomas Hickler7, (1)University of Liège, Liège, Belgium, (2)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)University of Liège, LPAP - SPHERES Research Unit, Liège, Belgium, (4)University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (5)University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Geography, Montreal, Canada, (6)University of Cambridge, Geography, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (7)Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre - BiK-F, Frankfurt, Germany
Identifying causal effects of climate extremes on societies (Invited) (73682)
Solomon M Hsiang, University of California, Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy, Berkeley, United States
Socio-Economic Resilience to Floods in 90 Countries (85908)
Stephane Hallegatte, Mook Bangalore and Adrien Vogt-Schilb, World Bank, Washington, DC, United States

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