The Climatic Impact‐Driver Framework for Assessment of Risk‐Relevant Climate Information
Abstract
The climate science and applications communities need a broad and demand‐driven concept to assess physical climate conditions that are relevant for impacts on human and natural systems. Here, we augment the description of the “climatic impact‐driver” (CID) approach adopted in the Working Group I (WGI) contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report. CIDs are broadly defined as “physical climate system conditions (e.g., means, events, and extremes) that affect an element of society or ecosystems. Depending on system tolerance, CIDs and their changes can be detrimental, beneficial, neutral, or a mixture of each across interacting system elements and regions.” We give background information on the IPCC Report process that led to the development of the 7 CID types (heat and cold, wet and dry, wind, snow and ice, coastal, open ocean, and other) and 33 distinct CID categories, each of which may be evaluated using a variety of CID indices. This inventory of CIDs was co‐developed with WGII to provide a useful collaboration point between physical climate scientists and impacts/risk experts to assess the specific climatic phenomena driving sectoral responses and identify relevant CID indices within each sector. The CID Framework ensures that a comprehensive set of climatic conditions informs adaptation planning and risk management and may also help prioritize improvements in modeling sectoral dynamics that depend on climatic conditions. CIDs contribute to climate services by increasing coherence and neutrality when identifying and communicating relevant findings from physical climate research to risk assessment and planning activities.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 2022
- Source ID
- 10.1029/2022ef002803
Entities
People
- AKM S Islam
- Alex C. Ruane
- Anna Amelia Sörensonn
- Carley E. Iles
- Claudia Tebaldi
- Daniel Ruiz
- Erika Coppola
- Faye Cruz
- Jana Sillmann
- Jérôme Servonnat
- Mohammad Rahimi
- Mouhamadou Bamba Sylla
- Nigel Arnell
- Rashyd Zaaboul
- Richard Jones
- Robert Vautard
- Roshanka Ranasinghe
- Sonia I. Seneviratne
- Suraje Dessai
- Wen Wang
Organizations
- African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
- California Department of Transportation
- Columbia Climate School
- Columbia University
- Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- ETH Zurich
- Goddard Institute for Space Studies
- Government of the United Kingdom
- Hohai University
- IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
- International Centre for Theoretical Physics
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Met Office
- NASA Earth Science
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Office of Biological and Environmental Research
- Office of Science
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Paris-Saclay University
- Semnan University
- United States Department of Energy
- University of Almería
- University of Buenos Aires
- University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar
- University of Hamburg
- University of Leeds
- University of Oxford
- University of Reading