March 4, 2010

detection and attribution of climate change

Speakers:
Dr Peter Stott, Head of Climate Monitoring and Attribution, Met Office Hadley Centre
Prof Gabriele Hegerl, Chair of Climate System Science, University of Edinburgh

A new review of the latest climate research, led by the UK Met Office, was published this week in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change. The paper falls between IPCC Assessment Reports and reviews progress on detection and attribution since AR4 (2007) with a particular focus on regional changes, and drawing conclusions about human influence over various aspects of climate. Two of the authors presented their findings at the SMC.