Accession Number:

AD1029525

Title:

Use of Climate Information for Decision-Making and Impacts Research: State of Our Understanding

Descriptive Note:

Technical Report

Corporate Author:

Argonne National Laboratory Argonne United States

Personal Author(s):

• Kotamarthi,Rao
• Mearns,Linda
• Hayhoe,Katharine
• Castro,Christoper L.
• Wuebbles,Donald

Report Date:

2016-03-01

Pagination or Media Count:

65.0

Abstract:

Much of human society and its infrastructure has been designed and built on a key assumption that future climate conditions at any given location including average temperature, precipitation, sea level, and the frequency and intensity of extreme events will be similar to those experienced in the past. In scientific and engineering terms, this assumption can be termed stationarity. This assumption underlies infrastructure design and maintenance, emergency response management, and long-term investment and planning, in which both past decisions and future plans rely on historical records of heat and cold, drought and flood, hurricanes and storm surges, or other aspects of long-term climate.

Descriptors:

• meteorological phenomena
• probabilistic models
• department of defense
• pacific ocean
• atmospheric motion
• topography
• tropical cyclones
• water resources
• air masses
• cyclones
• decision making
• environmental impact
• vulnerability
• risk analysis
• temperature
• climate change
• statistical analysis

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Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE