Abstract: Numerical modeling of global physical climate change caused by increasing greenhouse gas concentrations has progressed tremendously in recent decades, with both model resolution and level of complexity rapidly improving. Simulations of the economic consequences of climate change have similarly gone through rapid transformation recently, and now represents a rapidly growing area in the field of economics. However, these two modeling efforts have so far largely existed in separate worlds, despite the obvious close connections and coupling between the processes and phenomena they seek to represent. This presentation will introduce a pioneering effort to create a numerical modeling framework that joins the two worlds, by coupling a state-of-the-art model of the economic consequences of climate change with the Norwegian Earth System Model NorESM. The first results from a pilot of the modeling framework will be presented, and the wealth of research an teaching opportunities that the framework opens up will be discussed.
This talk is presented jointly with dScience as part of their Lunch Seminar series. See more at the dScience event page.
You can watch a recording of this talk on the Science Library's YouTube channel.
What is the Joint Oslo Seminar (JOS):
- Atmospheric and climate sciences have a stronghold in Oslo among the four institutions University of Oslo, the Meteorological Institute, CICERO and NILU.
- This joint seminar invites renowned international experts to contribute to an informal series of lectures, meant to create interaction with the Oslo atmospheric and climate science community on recent highlights and analysis in the field.
- Normally seminars will be held on Thursdays (12:15 pm -1pm).