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SUMMARY:Estimating the Economic Impacts of Carbon Cycle Uncertainty
DESCRIPTION:This event has passed. See the seminar recording here:\n\n \n\nDr. Corinne Hartin\nPacific Northwest National Laboratory\nTuesday February 19, 2019, 12:00-1:00 PM\nESSIC Conference Room 4102, 5825 University Research Ct, College Park, MD 20740\nAbstract:\nUncertainty in the Earth’s carbon-cycle, how carbon is partitioned between the land, ocean and the atmosphere, contributes to uncertainty in future temperature projections. This in turn leads to uncertainty in costs of reducing the atmospheric CO2 concentrations to limit the climate warming to 2C.  In this study we assess the economic value of constraining the carbon-cycle uncertainty with observational products, and hence reduce uncertainty in the cost of limiting climate change and the date and magnitude at which carbon emissions must peak before declining to zero or less.\n \nWe used the Global Change Assessment Model (GCAM), coupled to a reduced complexity carbon-climate model-Hector with quasi random combinations of carbon-cycle (CO2 fertilization and respiration response) and climate parameters (equilibrium climate sensitivity and ocean heat diffusion). The resulting scenarios were filtered using a variance-based distance test statistic used to compare results with HadCRUT4 global mean temperature, MODIS Net Primary Production, and NOAA atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Parameter combinations that produced scenarios that passed through the observational products were used as inputs within GCAM to solve for a radiative forcing target of 2.6 Wm-2 by year 2100. The uncertainty in year 2100 carbon price spans a range of 129% and results from the emission pathways show uncertainty in the timeframe when carbon emissions must peak in order to limit climate forcing by year 2100.\n \nBio-sketch:\nDr. Hartin is an earth scientist at the PNNL Joint Global Change Research Institute in College Park MD. Her research centers on human-earth system feedbacks and the development of a reduced-form climate carbon-cycle model, Hector. In particular, she is interested in modeling and projecting changes in ocean acidification, investigating he economic impacts of climate uncertainty and developing earth system emulation techniques for use in human-earth system modeling. Prior to this, she obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.\n \nWebex info: \nEvent number: 739 944 957\nEvent password: essic\n——————————————————-\nTo join the online event\n——————————————————-\n1. Click here to join the online event.\nOr copy and paste the following link to a browser: \nhttps://umd.webex.com/umd/onstage/g.php?MTID=ec16b3bf00b3531f8cc2dd5049ad4af26\n2. Click “Join Now”.\n——————————————————-\nTo join the audio conference only\n——————————————————-\nUS Toll: +1-415-655-0002\nGlobal call-in numbers: https://umd.webex.com/umd/globalcallin.php?serviceType=EC&ED=730293712&tollFree=0\nAccess code: 739 944 957\n——————————————————-\nFor IT assistance\n——————————————————-\nContact Travis Swaim at: tswaim1@umd.edu\n\nFollow ESSIC:\nESSIC homepage: http://essic.umd.edu/\nESSIC seminar calendar: MSQ-4102; http://go.umd.edu/essicseminar\nESSIC twitter: http://twitter.com/ESSICUMD\nESSIC facebook: http://facebook.com/ESSICUMD\nESSIC seminar coordinator: Dr. John Yang, jxyang@umd.edu\n \n
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ORGANIZER;CN=John Xun Yang:MAILTO:jxyang@umd.edu
CATEGORIES:Spring 2019
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