Climate change is the critical challenge facing modern societies. The impacts of global warming will predominantly be experienced on continents, through increased risks of heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and flooding. Despite its societal importance, scientific understanding of continental climate change remains incomplete with fundamental questions remaining unsolved.
This Carnegie Research Workshop will help define the next decade of continental climate change research. Bringing together invited experts who focus on the physical mechanisms controlling continental climate, the workshop will showcase the theoretical, modelling and observational work being carried out to understand the future of continental climates.
Michael Byrne (University of St Andrews & University of Oxford)
Gabriele Hegerl FRS FRSE (University of Edinburgh)
Jack Scheff (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)