Summary of a workshop on extreme weather events in a warming world organized by the Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesShow others and affiliations
2020 (English)In: Tellus. Series B, Chemical and physical meteorology, ISSN 0280-6509, E-ISSN 1600-0889, Vol. 72, no 1, p. 1-13, article id 1794236
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Abstract [en]
Climate change is not only about changes in means of climatic variables such as temperature, precipitation and wind, but also their extreme values which are of critical importance to human society and ecosystems. To inspire the Swedish climate research community and to promote assessments of international research on past and future changes in extreme weather events against the global climate change background, the Earth Science Class of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences organized a workshop entitled 'Extreme weather events in a warming world' in 2019. This article summarizes and synthesizes the key points from the presentations and discussions of the workshop on changes in floods, droughts, heat waves, as well as on tropical cyclones and extratropical storms. In addition to reviewing past achievements in these research fields and identifying research gaps with a focus on Sweden, future challenges and opportunities for the Swedish climate research community are highlighted.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis Group, 2020. Vol. 72, no 1, p. 1-13, article id 1794236
Keywords [en]
climate change, extreme weather events, workshop, Sweden
National Category
Climate Research
Research subject
Natural Science, Environmental Science
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-97662DOI: 10.1080/16000889.2020.1794236ISI: 000550013500001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85088116376OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-97662DiVA, id: diva2:1461296
2020-08-262020-08-262025-02-01Bibliographically approved