Join us for a talk with Claudia Tebaldi, a global expert in climate change projections, part of the American Geophysical Union’s Distinguished Lecture Series. The lecture will be delivered via Zoom, but you can join us in Vernier Science Center 513 for an in-person viewing.
Addressing global change requires a holistic consideration of the Earth and the human system interactions. Modelling of these two systems has historically happened with minimal coupling of the two, by climate models on the one side, energy, and impact models on the other. More recently, however, attention and efforts are directed towards understanding and modelling their joint behavior.
A truly multidisciplinary approach to the problem is needed, a collaboration between earth sciences and such diverse domains as economics, geography, agronomy, public health, water resource management, and decision making. Models of energy, land, and water systems are used together with models of the climate system to better characterize holistic scenarios of future risk. Dr. Tebaldi's talk will give an overview of some of the components of this complex problem, approaches, challenges, and promising directions of research.
Claudia Tebaldi, a scientist at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, has been working on climate change science since the early 2000s. She is a statistician by training and her work has centered around uncertainty characterization in future projections, with focus on changes at the regional scale, particularly in extremes. In the last decade her work has shifted increasingly to connecting the physical changes in the climate system to impact studies and risk assessment.