A hierarchical collection of political/economic regions for analysis of climate extremes

Journal Article · 29 June 2019 · Climatic Change

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-019-02479-6 · OSTI ID:1576507

Stone, Dáithí A.  ^[1]

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1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); National Inst. of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington (New Zealand)

This paper describes five sets of regions intended for use in summarizing extreme weather over Earth’s land areas from a climate perspective. The sets differ in terms of their target size: ~10 Mm², ~5 Mm², ~2 Mm², ~0.5 Mm², and ~0.1 Mm² (where 1 Mm²= 1 million km²). The regions are based on political/economic divisions, and hence are intended to be primarily aligned with geographical domains of decision-making and disaster response rather than other factors such as climatological homogeneity. This paper describes the method for defining these sets of regions; provides the final definitions of the regions; and performs some comparisons across the five sets and other available regional definitions with global land coverage, according to climatological and non-climatological properties.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (SC-23). Climate and Environmental Sciences Division
• Grant/Contract Number: AC02-05CH11231
• OSTI ID: 1576507
• Journal Information: Climatic Change, Journal Name: Climatic Change Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 155; ISSN 0165-0009
• Publisher: SpringerCopyright Statement
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English