Climate Modelling and Prediction

• Main Author: Annual Reviews
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Kudos Innovations Ltd 2021
• Subjects: Antarctic; Greenland; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.26303/vb3v-6z31; https://link.growkudos.com/1tp64xvaozk

Changes in weather over the present century have the capacity to threaten literally hundreds of millions of people. For example, consider the effect of sea-level rise: Currently, more than 200 million people are vulnerable to flooding during extreme storms, and the probability of a catastrophe will increase as sea levels continue to rise through the century. Among the huge uncertainties affecting the risk of flooding are the behavior of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets, the intensification of tropical and extratropical storms, and changes to surge propagation. Our society's response to this peril and others like it might come to be seen as one of the defining features of political and social activity for the current century. How can scientists best use data, statistical models, and future projections to study the climate, and potentially avoid disaster?