A quick run through the climate system with a focus on climate adaptation

1. – Adapting to climate change:
A wake up call for the utilities sector
Hans Olav Hygen (@hohygen)
Director of climateservices, MET Norway

2. Norwegian Meteorological Institute
No news today
The climate times
We know the past the future everything - Since 800 BC

3. The big picture
1880

6. Temperature in Norway

7. Precipitation in Norway

8. Svante Arrhenius (1859 – 1927)

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CO2 Scenarios

11. Global temperature and CO2

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13. Global to local
Euro CORDEX
Hydrological model

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RCP2.6
Temperature change in Norway

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Precipitation change in Norway

16. Number of days with heavy
precipitation towards 2060
[mm/døgn
]
20-40
40-80
80-200
Heavy
Precipitation
today

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Change in snow season towards 2060
RCP4.5 RCP8.5

19. Changes in flood patterns
Foto: Ingjerd Haddeland

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National assesment and county
summary

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Thank you
Hans.Olav.Hygen@met.no
Twitter:@hohygen
http://www.slideshare.net/HansOlavHygen