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Information - AC02 Climate change detection and climate trends
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Climate change is often regarded as synonymous with global warming, because the reported increase in the mean temperature near the surface of the earth provides the most apparent signal that our climate is changing. However, IPCC defines climate change as a statistically significant variation in either the mean state of the climate or in its variability, persisting for an extended period of time, typically decades or longer. Thus climate change is not only characterized by changes in temperature, but also by changes in other variables, for instance precipitation and wind.
Topics for which papers are invited are: indices to describe climate change and variability, trends in climate, consistency of trends over time and in space, and issues of climate change detection. In line with the IPCC definition, climate change detection in this session refers to the process of demonstrating that climate has changed in some defined statistical sense, not necessarily providing a reason for that change.
Furthermore, papers are particularly welcomed on communication of scientific results on above topics and implementation in regional and local applications for planning authorities, decision makers and the general public.
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