Abstract

Climate change is not only about changes in means of climatic variables such as temperature, precipitation and wind, but also their extreme values which are of critical importance to human society and ecosystems. To inspire the Swedish climate research community and to promote assessments of international research on past and future changes in extreme weather events against the global climate change background, the Earth Science Class of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences organized a workshop entitled ‘Extreme weather events in a warming world’ in 2019. This article summarizes and synthesizes the key points from the presentations and discussions of the workshop on changes in floods, droughts, heat waves, as well as on tropical cyclones and extratropical storms. In addition to reviewing past achievements in these research fields and identifying research gaps with a focus on Sweden, future challenges and opportunities for the Swedish climate research community are highlighted.

摘要

气候变化不仅涉及气候变量（例如温度，降水和风）的变化，而且还涉及对人类社会和生态系统至关重要的极端值。为了激励瑞典气候研究界，并促进对全球气候变化背景下极端天气事件过去和未来变化的国际研究评估，瑞典皇家科学院地球科学班组织了一个名为“极端天气事件的研讨会”。 2019年全球气候变暖。本文总结并综合了洪水，干旱，热浪以及热带气旋和温带风暴研讨会的演讲和讨论的要点。