Frontiers in Environmental Science (Feb 2019)
Three Ways Forward to Improve Regional Information for Extreme Events: An Early Career Perspective
- Gaby S. Langendijk,
- Gaby S. Langendijk,
- Caroline Aubry-Wake,
- Marisol Osman,
- Marisol Osman,
- Carla Gulizia,
- Carla Gulizia,
- Faten Attig-Bahar,
- Faten Attig-Bahar,
- Erik Behrens,
- André Bertoncini,
- Neil Hart,
- Victor S. Indasi,
- Silvia Innocenti,
- Eveline C. van der Linden,
- Nabir Mamnun,
- Kabir Rasouli,
- Kabir Rasouli,
- Kevin A. Reed,
- Nina Ridder,
- Juan Rivera,
- Romina Ruscica,
- Bethel U. Ukazu,
- Jakub P. Walawender,
- Dean P. Walker,
- Beth J. Woodhams,
- Yeliz A. Yılmaz
Affiliations
- Gaby S. Langendijk
- Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG), Geesthacht, Germany
- Gaby S. Langendijk
- Faculty of Sustainability, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany
- Caroline Aubry-Wake
- Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
- Marisol Osman
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmpósfera (CIMA), UMI-IFAECI (CNRS), Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Marisol Osman
- Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Departamento de Ciencias de la Atmósfera y los Océanos, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Carla Gulizia
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmpósfera (CIMA), UMI-IFAECI (CNRS), Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Carla Gulizia
- Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Departamento de Ciencias de la Atmósfera y los Océanos, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Faten Attig-Bahar
- Tunisia Polytechnic School, University of Carthage, La Marsa, Tunisia
- Faten Attig-Bahar
- Laboratory of Materials, Measurements and Applications, National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, University of Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia
- Erik Behrens
- Marine Physics Department, National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Wellington, New Zealand
- André Bertoncini
- Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
- Neil Hart
- School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Victor S. Indasi
- 0Climate Systems Analysis Group (CSAG), University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Silvia Innocenti
- 1Centre Eau-Terre-Environnement, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Quebec, QC, Canada
- Eveline C. van der Linden
- 2R&D Observations and Data Technology, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands
- Nabir Mamnun
- 3Network on Climate Change in Bangladesh (NCC, B), Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Kabir Rasouli
- Centre for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
- Kabir Rasouli
- 4Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
- Kevin A. Reed
- 5School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States
- Nina Ridder
- 6R&D Weather- and Climate models, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands
- Juan Rivera
- 7Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales (IANIGLA/CONICET), Mendoza, Argentina
- Romina Ruscica
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmpósfera (CIMA), UMI-IFAECI (CNRS), Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Bethel U. Ukazu
- 8Center for Environmental Management and Control (CEMAC), University of Nigeria, Enugu, Nigeria
- Jakub P. Walawender
- 9Laboratory for Climatology and Remote Sensing, Faculty of Geography, Philipps University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Dean P. Walker
- 0Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
- Beth J. Woodhams
- 0Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
- Yeliz A. Yılmaz
- 1Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2019.00006
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 7
Abstract
This paper provides an early career researchers (ECRs) perspective on major challenges and opportunities that arise in the study and understanding of, and the provision of regional information for Climate, Weather and Hydrological (CWH) extreme events. This perspective emerged from the discussions of the early career 3-day Young Earth System Scientists - Young Hydrologic Society (YESS-YHS) workshop, which was conjointly held with the Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) Open Science Conference. In this paper we discuss three possible ways forward in the field: a stronger interaction between Earth system scientists and users, a collaborative modeling approach between the different modeling communities, and an increased use of unconventional data sources in scientific studies. This paper also demonstrates the important role of ECRs in embracing the above outlined pathways and addressing the long-standing challenges in the field. YESS and YHS networks encourage the global community to support and strengthen their involvement with ECR communities to advance the field of interdisciplinary Earth system science in the upcoming years to decades.
Keywords
- earth system science
- extreme events
- regional information
- unconventional data sources
- modeling
- user-driven science
