Exploring the Potential of Climate and Extreme Weather Interventions

Convener: Tetsuo Nakazawa | Co-conveners: Kohei Takatama, Larisa TarasovaECSECS, Sebastian Eastham

Global warming is intensifying weather-related disasters and raising the risk of crossing climate tipping points. To address these challenges, it is essential to deepen our understanding of potential interventions, including approaches for climate cooling and direct modification of extreme events such as hurricanes and heavy rainfall.

Advances in weather prediction now allow us to better distinguish the impacts of human interventions from natural variability. While the chaotic nature of weather imposes limits on predictability, it also offers the possibility of incremental, small-scale interventions that could influence atmospheric dynamics.
This session welcomes presentations on human interventions in extreme weather and climate, including topics such as predictability and its limits, intervention strategies, modeling and observational techniques, and the societal dimensions.