Climate Change & Extreme Weather

Catalog description

This course provides a graduate-level overview of current understanding of the relationship between climate change and extreme weather events. Topics include: causes of extreme weather events in the absence of climate change; approaches for quantifying the probability of extreme events in the absence of climate change; mechanisms by which climate change could alter the frequency or intensity of extreme events; approaches for detecting and attributing changes in extreme events in historical observations; approaches for understanding and quantifying potential changes in extreme events in response to future global warming; approaches for quantifying the impacts of past and future changes in extreme events on people and ecosystems. Pre-requisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor.