
Jesper Sjolte
Forskare

Summary of a workshop on extreme weather events in a warming world organized by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Författare
Summary, in English
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.
Avdelning/ar
- Kvartärgeologi
- MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system
- BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
- Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC)
- Kärnfysik
Publiceringsår
2020
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
1-13
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology
Volym
72
Issue
1
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Taylor & Francis
Ämne
- Climate Research
Nyckelord
- climate change
- extreme weather events
- Sweden
- workshop
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0280-6509