The changing nature of human-forced hydroclimatic risks across Africa
We present results from large ensembles of projected 21st century changes in seasonal precipitation and near-surface air temperature over Africa and selected sub-continental regions. These ensembles are a result of combining Monte Carlo projections from a human-Earth system model of intermediate com...
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| author | Schlosser, C. Adam Sokolov, Andrei Gao, Xiang Thomas, Timothy S. Strzepek, Ken |
| author_browse | Gao, Xiang Schlosser, C. Adam Sokolov, Andrei Strzepek, Ken Thomas, Timothy S. |
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| description | We present results from large ensembles of projected 21st century changes in seasonal precipitation and near-surface air temperature over Africa and selected sub-continental regions. These ensembles are a result of combining Monte Carlo projections from a human-Earth system model of intermediate complexity with pattern-scaled responses from climate models of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6. These future ensemble scenarios consider a range of global actions to abate emissions through the 21st century. We evaluate distributions of surface-air temperature and precipitation change. In all regions, we find that without any emissions or climate targets in place, there is a greater than 50% likelihood that mid-century temperatures will increase threefold over the current climate’s two-standard deviation range of variability. However, scenarios that consider more aggressive climate targets all but eliminate the risk of these salient temperature increases. A preponderance of risk toward decreased precipitation exists for much of the southern Africa region considered, and this is also compounded by enhanced warming (relative to the global trajectory). Over eastern and western Africa, the preponderance of risk in increased precipitation change is seen. Strong climate targets abate evolving regional hydroclimatic risks. Under a target to limit global climate warming to 1.5˚C by 2100, the risk of precipitation changes within Africa toward the end of this century (2065-2074) is commensurate to the risk during the 2030s without any global climate target. Thus, these regional hydroclimate risks over much Africa could be delayed by 30 years, and in doing so, provide invaluable lead-time for national efforts to prepare, fortify, and/or adapt. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1316922024-10-25T07:58:07Z The changing nature of human-forced hydroclimatic risks across Africa Schlosser, C. Adam Sokolov, Andrei Gao, Xiang Thomas, Timothy S. Strzepek, Ken air temperature climate climate change precipitation We present results from large ensembles of projected 21st century changes in seasonal precipitation and near-surface air temperature over Africa and selected sub-continental regions. These ensembles are a result of combining Monte Carlo projections from a human-Earth system model of intermediate complexity with pattern-scaled responses from climate models of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6. These future ensemble scenarios consider a range of global actions to abate emissions through the 21st century. We evaluate distributions of surface-air temperature and precipitation change. In all regions, we find that without any emissions or climate targets in place, there is a greater than 50% likelihood that mid-century temperatures will increase threefold over the current climate’s two-standard deviation range of variability. However, scenarios that consider more aggressive climate targets all but eliminate the risk of these salient temperature increases. A preponderance of risk toward decreased precipitation exists for much of the southern Africa region considered, and this is also compounded by enhanced warming (relative to the global trajectory). Over eastern and western Africa, the preponderance of risk in increased precipitation change is seen. Strong climate targets abate evolving regional hydroclimatic risks. Under a target to limit global climate warming to 1.5˚C by 2100, the risk of precipitation changes within Africa toward the end of this century (2065-2074) is commensurate to the risk during the 2030s without any global climate target. Thus, these regional hydroclimate risks over much Africa could be delayed by 30 years, and in doing so, provide invaluable lead-time for national efforts to prepare, fortify, and/or adapt. 2023 2023-08-30T20:40:10Z 2023-08-30T20:40:10Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131692 en Open Access Massachusetts Institute of Technology Schlosser, C. Adam; Sokolov, Andrei; Gao, Xiang; Thomas, Tim; and Strzepek, Ken. 2023. The changing nature of human-forced hydroclimatic risks across Africa. MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Report No. 368. https://globalchange.mit.edu/publication/18066 |
| spellingShingle | air temperature climate climate change precipitation Schlosser, C. Adam Sokolov, Andrei Gao, Xiang Thomas, Timothy S. Strzepek, Ken The changing nature of human-forced hydroclimatic risks across Africa |
| title | The changing nature of human-forced hydroclimatic risks across Africa |
| title_full | The changing nature of human-forced hydroclimatic risks across Africa |
| title_fullStr | The changing nature of human-forced hydroclimatic risks across Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | The changing nature of human-forced hydroclimatic risks across Africa |
| title_short | The changing nature of human-forced hydroclimatic risks across Africa |
| title_sort | changing nature of human forced hydroclimatic risks across africa |
| topic | air temperature climate climate change precipitation |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/131692 |
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