Workshop "Uncertainty in Climate Change Research: An Integrated Approach"

Date: 
08/08/2012

The workshop focues on uncertainties being present in climate change research and its applications, e.g. projections of future climate, and their impacts on decision-making in particular with respect to climate change mitigation and adaptation policy across different temporal and spatial scales.

Throughout the workshop some of these gaps shall be filled, including

  • methods that facilitate consistent treatment of uncertainties in different parts of the climate change problem,
  • accounting for additional factors outside quantifiable ones that contribute to uncertainty in decision making,
  • accounting for the effect of cognitive biases that prevent consistency from one discipline to the next, and
  • critical differences in the end-to-end academic process vs. reality (i.e., practical application vs. theoretical approaches).

The workshop is designed for graduate students, post-docs, and early career scientists from a wide range of disciplines, such as statistics, climate modeling and analysis, climate impacts, decision-making, policy, communication, and social science concerned with vulnerability and climate chagne, being interested in the understanding of the integrated uncertainty problem in particular with respect ot climate change research.

Organizers: 
NCAR IMAGe, Penn State University
Date: 
Mon, 06/08/2012 - Fri, 17/08/2012
Place: 
Boulder, Colorado
Duration of course: 
2 weeks
Deadline for application: 
Thu, 10/05/2012
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