Markku Rummukainen
Professor
Climate change: changing means and changing extremes
Författare
Summary, in English
Ongoing global warming not only involves changes in temperature and the global mean; it affects more or less every part of the climate. Regional temperature changes are often greater or smaller than corresponding changes in the global mean. In some cases the direction of change may also be different. For example, temperature changes are higher over land than over the ocean. Precipitation increases in some regions but decreases in others. Changes in extreme events may differ from changes in the corresponding mean. Present scientific knowledge clearly indicates that the already observed global trend towards warmer conditions will continue and that it will be accompanied by changes in yet other aspects of climate. This paper highlights, as a brief review, aspects of our changing climate from the available scientific knowledge with a bearing on the energy sector. Its focus is on temperature and precipitation, with some consideration of wind and sea level, among others. While uncertainties remain as far as the magnitude of future global-scale changes is concerned, and even more so their many regional patterns, significant changes are foreseen in, for example, global and regional temperature and precipitation, sea level rise, and in the characteristics of various extreme events.
Avdelning/ar
- Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC)
- MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system
Publiceringsår
2013
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
3-13
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Climatic Change
Volym
121
Issue
1
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Springer
Ämne
- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences
Nyckelord
- Climate
- climate extreme
- climate change
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0165-0009