Evaluating Climate Change Impacts discusses assessing and quantifying the climate change and its impacts from a multi-faceted perspective of ecosystem, social and infrastructure resilience, given through a lens of statistics and data science. It provides a multi-disciplinary view on the implications of climate variability and shows how the new data science paradigm can help us to mitigate climate-induced risk and to enhance climate adaptation strategies.
The book consists of chapters solicited from leading topical experts and presents their perspectives on climate change effects in two general areas: natural ecosystems and socio-economic impacts. The chapters unveil topics of atmospheric circulation, climate modeling and long-term prediction; approach the problems of increasing frequency of extreme events, sea level rise, forest fires, as well as economic losses, analysis of climate impacts for insurance, agriculture, fisheries, and electric and transport infrastructures. The readers will be exposed to the current research using a variety of methods from physical modeling, statistics, and machine learning, including the global circulation models (GCM) and ocean models, statistical generalized additive models (GAM) and generalized linear models (GLM), state space and graphical models, causality networks, Bayesian ensembles, a variety of index methods and statistical tests, and machine learning methods. The reader will learn about data from various sources, including GCM and ocean model outputs, satellite observations, data collected by different agencies and research units. Many of the chapters provide references to open source software R and Python code that are available for implementing the methods.
1. On Evaluation of Climate Models
2. A Statistical Analysis of North
Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Changes
3. Fire Weather Index and Climate Change
4.
Probabilistic Projections of High Tide Flooding for the State of Maryland in
the st Century
5. Response of Benthic Biodiversity to Climate-Sensitive
Regional and Local Conditions in a Complex Estuarine System
6. Using
Structural Comparisons to Measure the Behavior of Complex Systems
7.
Causality Analysis of Climate and Ecosystem Time Series
8. Statistical Issues
in Detection of Trends in Losses from Extreme Weather and Climate Events
9.
Event Attribution: Linking Specific Extreme Events to Human-Caused Climate
Change
10. Financing Weather and Climate Risks in the United States
11.
Extreme Events, Population, and Risk: an Integrated Modeling Approach
12.
Aspects of Climate-Induced Risk in Property Insurance
13. Climate Change
Impacts on the Nations Electricity Sector
14. Impacts of InclementWeather on
Traffic Accidents in Mexico City
15. Statistical Modeling of Dynamic
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
16. Agricultural Climate Risk Management and Global
Food Security: Recent Progress in South-East Asia
17. Poppy Cultivation and
Eradication in Mexico : the Effects of Climate
The book is an interdisciplinary initiative of statisticians, climatologists, ecologists and oceanographers whose research addresses development and implementation of analytical methodology for assessing climate change impacts. The team includes statisticians V. Lyubchich and Y. R. Gel (statistical and machine learning methods for quantification of the climate-induced risk), climatologist K. H. Kilbourne (paleoclimatology, geochemistry, assessment of the causes of climate variability), fisheries scientist T. J. Miller (effects of ocean acidification on blue crab, recruitment issues in menhaden and striped bass), disaster expert A. B. Smith (analysis of economic and societal impacts of extreme events and natural hazards), and research scientist in food-water-energy nexus N. K. Newlands (sustainability, precision agriculture and risk analysis using machine learning and integrated modeling).
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