GFI/BCCR Seminar: Climate extremes - what can we learn from global models

Jana Sillmann (CICERO, Oslo):

Climate extremes - what can we learn from global models

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This talk will give an overview on the assessment of climate extremes in the recent IPCC AR5 with focus on global climate models. Common definitions and results from model evaluation and future projections of climate extremes will be shown. The challenges encountered from such an approach with respect to "high impact" events will be addressed and examples for more contextualized analyses of climate extremes will be discussed.