Climate Change, Extremes, and Impacts

• Activity Number: 449 - Climate Change, Extremes, and Impacts
• Type: Invited
• Date/Time: Wednesday, August 2, 2017 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
• Sponsor: Section on Statistics and the Environment
• Author(s): Brian Reich* and Richard Smith* and Michael Wehner* and Peter Sousounis* and Martin Tingley*
• Companies: AIR Worldwide and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and NCSU and Netflix and University of North Carolina Chapel Hill/SAMSI
• Keywords: risk ; extremes ; weather ; industry ; climate models

Abstract

Tying in with the theme of JSM 2017, characterizing extreme behavior is essential to quantifying risk and mitigating potential impacts from extreme climate events. Developing appropriate statistical methods is necessary for describing extreme behavior and accounting for uncertainties of extreme events under a changed climate.

This panel brings together statisticians who have experience in modeling extremes in climate, leading climate modelers with an expertise in future projections of extremes, as well as specialists from industry who have a need to understand the potential impacts from climate extreme events. The aim of the panel will be to discuss both the state-of-the-art in modeling extreme values, but also to highlight areas which are in need of statistical expertise.

The format of the panel will be to have each panelist provide a short introduction where he/she explains the current state of the art and what the current needs are. Floor discussion will follow.