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Jesper Sjolte

Jesper Sjolte

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Jesper Sjolte

Summary of a workshop on extreme weather events in a warming world organized by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Author

  • Deliang Chen
  • Henning Rodhe
  • Kerry Emanuel
  • Sonia I. Seneviratne
  • Panmao Zhai
  • Bert Allard
  • Peter Berg
  • Svante Björck
  • Ian A. Brown
  • Lars Bärring
  • Léon Chafik
  • Kaiqiang Deng
  • Marie Jose Gaillard-Lemdahl
  • Magnus Hieronymus
  • Erik Kjellström
  • Hans W. Linderholm
  • Wilhelm May
  • Jens Ove Näslund
  • Tinghai Ou
  • Anna Rutgersson
  • Erik Sahlee
  • Frederik Schenk
  • Jesper Sjolte
  • Moa K. Sporre
  • Anders Stigebrandt
  • Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer
  • Peng Zhang
  • Qiong Zhang
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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.

Department/s

  • Quaternary Sciences
  • MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
  • Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC)
  • Nuclear physics

Publishing year

2020

Language

English

Pages

1-13

Publication/Series

Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume

72

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article (letter)

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Topic

  • Climate Research

Keywords

  • climate change
  • extreme weather events
  • Sweden
  • workshop

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0280-6509