Climate Change Impacts on Sweden

May 17 at 15:45–17:30, room Hemerycksalen

Your session chairs

Erik Kjellström and Johanna Alkan Olsson

Keywords describing this session: CORDEX, downscaling, societal and urban impacts, health impacts, Swedish air quality, hydrological, ecosystem disturbances, information for adaptation

Programme

15:45-16:00 Welcome and introduction – Johanna Alkan Olsson, Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science, Lund University & Erik Kjellström, Professor at SMHI

16:00-16:15 New Swedish climate change service – Gustav Strandberg, Researcher at the Rossby Centre, SMHI

16:15-16:30 Convection-permitting climate models: a step-change towards more usable information on climate and climate extreme – Petter Lind, Researcher at the Rossby Centre, SMHI

16:30-16:45 High resolution simulation of Stockholm´s urban heat island and implications to health and adaptation – Jorge Amorim, researcher at SMHI

16:45-17:00 The impact of climate change on the electricity produced from wind in Scandinavia – Elena Malz, researcher at the Rossby Centre of SMHI

17:00-17:15 Landscape analysis for bridging the science/practice gap – the role of subjective attribution of causes of an event to climate change – Kristina Blennow, Professor at the Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, SLU

17:15-17:30 Data Management Framework for Climate Change Adaptation with Blue-Green Infrastructure – Johanna Sörensen, researcher at the Department of Building and Environmental Technology, Lund University