How Will Climate Warming Likely Affect the Incidence and Severity of Storms, Floods and Droughts in North America?
The United States and Canada Symposium on North American Climate Change and Weather Extremes was convened in Atlanta during October 1999. This three day meeting was convened in Atlanta by the Climate Institute under the joint sponsorship of the Canadian Climate Programme, the US National Climate Program, Environment Canada, US Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The meeting pulled together climate modelers, computer experts, climate impacts specialists, and those involved in response strategies such as emergency preparedness officials and insurance industry representatives to discuss what we know about likely changes in frequency of extreme weather events in North America should the climate warm as anticipated. A major focus of the discussions was how to fill in the gaps in our understanding of likely changes in occurrence and severity of extreme weather events and how to strengthen research efforts in both the US and Canada to provi
