A temperature binning approach for multi-sector climate impact analysis.

ABSTRACT: Characterizing the future risks of climate change is a key goal of climate impacts analysis. Temperature binning provides a framework for analyzing sector-specific impacts by degree of warming as an alternative or complement to traditional scenario-based approaches in order to improve communication of results, comparability between studies, and flexibility to facilitate scenario analysis. In this study, we estimate damages for nine climate impact sectors within the contiguous United States (US) using downscaled climate projections from six global climate models, at integer degrees of US national warming. Each sector is analyzed based on socioeconomic conditions for both the beginning and the end of the century. The potential for adaptive measures to decrease damages is also demonstrated fo

SUBMITTER: Sarofim MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8311571 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature