C1 - Societal Impacts

Session co-chairs: Natália Machado Crespo and Michelle Simões Reboita This session focuses on high impact regional phenomena and implications for urban areas, health, renewable energy, infrastructure (buildings and transport), disaster management, insurance issues, and land use and land cover change and management strategies (including agriculture and forestry). It also includes studies on the attribution of extremes and risk assessments and event-based downscaling at high resolution for process-based understanding of event drivers. Oral presentations Climate Response to Land-Use Changes over North America and Europe Olivier ASSELIN Margarida 17th of June 2017, an Extreme Fire Event in Pedrogão Grande, Central Portugal Rita CARDOSO TAVARES Impact of climate change in Mexican wine grape regions Blanca Natalia CASTILLO The Intersection of Climate and Renewable Energy Research: Successes and Limitations Andrea HAHMANN Climate change in Sweden with impacts for reindeer husbandry Erik KJELLSTROM Quantification and allocation of uncertainties of climate change impacts on hydropower potential under 1.50C and 2.00C Global Warming Levels in the the Benue River Basin, Cameroon Rodric Merime NONKI Checking the performance of Regional Climate models in determining Flooding at Basin Scale using Global Hydrodynamic model Hrishikesh SINGH Performance of CORDEX models in reproducing block-level meteorological droughts characteristics Sai Venkata Ramana MUTYALA