Informal Seminar: An ENSO impacts platform combining observations and climate models

Abstract:

ENSOscope (https://iadicarlo.github.io/ensoscope) is an open platform built to translate climate-variability science into clear, regional signals about the impacts of ENSO. It maps how a given ENSO state propagates through teleconnections into rainfall, drought and heat across regions of interest, combining observations with large-ensemble climate-model data. The observational record holds too few strong events to give robust impact patterns on its own, so I will show how model data fills that gap, how the right model is chosen and validated against observations. Built with humanitarian partners and still growing, the platform also points to where it can be extended and where collaboration could sharpen it.

Speaker bio:

Isma Abdelkader Di Carlo (PhD), is a climate scientist studying the impact of global warming on climate variability, with a focus on ENSO. She currently is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research in Utrecht University (NL).