Engineering for Climate Extremes

Cindy Bruyère (National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, USA):

Engineering for Climate Extremes

 

Abstract
We know that all systems will fail at some point or some level. We therefore propose climate change as a component of the engineering process, thereby incorporating the potential for failure as a key component of the engineering design, community planning, and the associated research and development. This is a fundamental component of the ECEP, an interdisciplinary partnership bringing together scientific, engineering, cultural, business and government expertise to develop robust, well-communicated predictions and advice on the impacts of weather and climate extremes in support of decision-making. A feature of the partnership is the manner in which basic and applied research and development is conducted in direct collaboration with the end user.

 Her experiences from this work are very relevant for our Hordaklim project, which is a collaboration project with Hordaland fylkeskommune (county): 

 

https://uni.no/nb/uni-klima/klimaservice/hordaklim/