climateprediction.net at the European Geosciences Union, Vienna

Several of our project scientists are presenting talks and posters at this year’s European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna this week. Below are links to their talk or poster abstracts.

Monday, 13 Apr

Extreme Events and Impacts

• Generating extreme weather event sets from very large ensembles of regional climate models
  Neil Massey, Benoit Guillod, Friederike Otto, Myles Allen, Richard Jones, and Jim Hall
• Changing risks of resonance in extreme weather events for higher atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations
  Chris Huntingford, Dann Mitchell, and Scott Osprey
• Attributing regional effects of the 2014 Jordanian extreme drought to external climate drivers
  Karim Bergaoui, Dann Mitchell, Rashyd Zaaboul, Friederike Otto, Rachael McDonnell, Simon Dadson, and Myles Allen
• Developing research about extreme events and impacts to support international climate policy
  Friederike Otto, Rachel James, Hannah Parker, Emily Boyd, Richard Jones, Myles Allen, Daniel Mitchell, and Rosalind Cornforth

Dynamical coupling between the stratosphere and the troposphere: sudden stratospheric warmings and tropospheric predictability

• Signatures of naturally induced variability in the atmosphere using multiple reanalysis datasets
  Dann Mitchell, Lesley Gray, Masatomo Fujiwara, and David Tan
• Solar Signals in CMIP-5 Simulations: The Stratospheric Pathway
  Dann Mitchell, Stergios Misios, Lesley Gray, Kleareti Tourpali, Katja Matthes, and Lon Hood

Regional climate modeling, including CORDEX

• A framework for process-based assessment of regional climate model experiments: applied to projections of southern African precipitation
  Rachel James, Richard Washington, and Richard Jones

Wednesday, 15 Apr

Hydrological change: Regional hydrological behaviour under transient climate and land use conditions

• Influence of Amazonian deforestation on the future evolution of regional surface fluxes, circulation, surface temperature and precipitation
  Quentin Lejeune, Edouard Davin, Benoit Guillod, and Sonia Seneviratne

Change in climate, hydrology and society

• Drought in the Horn of Africa: attribution of a damaging and repeating extreme event
  Toby Marthews, Friederike Otto, Daniel Mitchell, Simon Dadson, and Richard Jones

Thursday, 16 Apr

Land-climate interactions from models and observations: Implications from past to future climate

• Soil moisture-precipitation feedback: reconciling negative spatial coupling with a positive temporal feedback via moisture recycling
  Benoît Guillod, Boris Orlowsky, Diego G. Miralles, Adriaan J. Teuling, and Sonia I. Seneviratne

Friday, 17 Apr

Climate impacts at different levels of warming. Dealing with uncertainty in multi-model intercomparisons

• Using climate model experiments to explore difference between degrees of global warming: lessons from a study of African precipitation
  Rachel James and Richard Washington

Extreme meteorological and hydrological events induced by severe weather and climate change

• The role of human influence on climate in recent UK winter floods and their impacts
  Nathalie Schaller, Pascal Yiou, Alison Kay, Rob Lamb, Neil Massey, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Friederike Otto, Sarah Sparrow, Robert Vautard, Andy Bowery, Susan Crooks, Chris Huntingford, William Ingram, Richard Jones, Tim Legg, Jonathan Miller, Jessica Skeggs, David Wallom, Simon Wilson, and Myles Allen