Previous participants panelASP Summer Colloquium 2014

Michael Glotter

Saskia van Pelt

Scott Steinschneider

Selma Guerreiro

Saskia van Pelt

PhD thesis• Downscaling large ensemble GCM

to sub basin level for hydrological modelling

• Role of internal variability compared to model uncertainty for extreme rainfall and high water levels using 17 member ECHAM5 ensemble

• Assessing economical damage for two cities in Germany in case of flooding

Phd - Postdoc• Communicating about

uncertainties to water managers using a simulation game

o Local climate services, 26 case studies in different European countries

o Evaluated the experience of research institutes and stakeholders

What I learned/gained from the 2012 workshop• Wide variety of subjects, speakers and participants

• Each discipline has its own view

• Interpretation of climate change uncertainty

• New ideas for my own research

• Network

Where am I now• Start-up company

WeatherImpact• Operational weather

products to assess risk of extreme weather (also in relation to hydrology)• Multinationals in remote

areas with sensitivity to weather in supply chain• Give advice on climate

change

Who am I?• Researcher in hydrology and

climate change impacts at Newcastle University

• Environmental engineering degree in 2005

• Worked in hydrology in the private sector for six years

• PhD in Newcastle University

What was I doing?PhD in:

“Water resources and drought in international Iberian river basins under future climates”.

Looking at future changes in:

• Rainfall

• Droughts

• Discharges

Using:

• CMIP5

• Change factor and quantile mapping

What did I learn?

• The importance of accounting for

uncertainty when planning adaptation

to climate change

• The need to re-think how we use

climate projections in the impact

community

What did I learn?

• How different thinks can be in different research fields

careful with assumptions!

• Interdisciplinarity is

challenging but fundamental!

What am I doing now?

My contribution:

to develop a high level analysis of the impacts of climate change in flooding, droughts and heat waves in European

cities

13 institutions across 8 European countries:

European research project:

Activity: main challenges when working with other disciplines

• Groups per area of research/colour

• Questions to think about may include:• Whose outputs (in the general sense) do you use? Who could use your

outputs? Who do (could) you work with?• Are there problems in interdisciplinary communication? Do you

communicate?• Are there problems in getting or passing along data/information?• Do you think your work is being “misused” in other areas? Could you be

misusing someone else’s work?• What would make working with other disciplines easier?

• What are the 3 main points you would like to discuss?

Group’s output