Localised economic impacts from high temperature disruption days under climate change
Localised economic impacts from high temperature disruption days under climate change
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10.31223/x5502q
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2021-04
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T. Summers;Erik Mackie;Risa Ueno;Charles H. Simpson;S. Hosking;Tudor Suciu;Andrew S. Coburn;E. Shuckburgh
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T. Summers;Erik Mackie;Risa Ueno;Charles H. Simpson;S. Hosking;Tudor Suciu;Andrew S. Coburn;E. Shuckburgh
42 Most studies into the effects of climate change have headline results in the form of a global 43 change in mean temperature. More useful for businesses and governments however are 44 measures of the economic impact, either direct or indirect. We have addressed this by 45 examining how the frequency of exceeding a daily mean temperature threshold changes, 46 defined as “disruption days”, as it is often this exceedance which has the most dramatic 47 impacts on personal or economic behaviour. Our exceedance analysis tackles the resolution 48 of climate change both geographically and temporally, the latter specifically to address the 549 20 year time horizon which can be recognised in business planning. 50 We apply bias correction with quantile mapping to meteorological reanalysis data from 51 ECMWF ERA5 and output from CMIP5 climate model simulations. By determining the daily 52 frequency at which a mean temperature threshold is exceeded in this bias-corrected dataset, 53 we can compare predicted and historic frequencies to estimate the change in the number of 54 disruption days. Furthermore, by combining results from 18 different climate models, we can 55 estimate the likelihood of more extreme events, taking into account model variations. This is 56 useful for worst case scenario planning. 57 Taking the city of Chicago as an example, the expected frequency of years with 40 or more 58 disruption days above the 25oC threshold rises by a factor of four for a time period centred 59 on 2040, compared with a period centred on 2000. Alternately, looking at the change in the 60 number of days at a given likelihood, an example is Shenzhen, where the number of 61 disruption days in a once-per-decade event exceeding the 25oC or 30oC threshold is 62 expected to rise by a factor of four. 63 Superimposing these results onto maps of, for instance, GDP sensitivity or production days 64 lost, will provide more accurate and targeted conclusions for future impacts of climate 65 change. This method of quantifying costs on business-relevant timescales will help 66 businesses and governments properly include risks associated with facilities, plan mitigating 67 actions and make accurate provisions. It can also, for example, inform their disclosure of 68 physical risks under the framework of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial 69 Disclosures. This approach is equally applicable to other weather-related, localised 70 phenomena likely to be impacted by climate change. 71