Abstract

Research on global climate change is an important scientific issue related to the sustainable development of human society. Understanding the causes of climate change and detecting the impact of external forcing due to human activities on the climate is one of the major challenges of current climate change research. The purpose of climate change detection and attribution is to reveal the degree of influence of man-made and natural external forcing and natural variability of the climate system on climate change. If it is caused by external forcing, how much does human activities contribute to climate change such as greenhouse gases? This question is an important scientific cornerstone for understanding why the climate is changing and how it will change in the future. It is an important scientific support for formulating emission reduction and disaster prevention and mitigation strategies. It is also the core content of IPCC's previous assessment reports. This report introduces how to detect the impact of attributable human activities on climate change in China, and looks forward to its future development prospects.

Presenter Profile

Sun Ying, PhD, researcher. She received a bachelor's degree from Nanjing Institute of Meteorology in 1996. In 2002, she received a doctorate degree from Nanjing Institute of Meteorology and Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences. She is currently working at the National Climate Center, chief expert and second-level researcher. She has won the World Meteorological Organization Young Scientist Research Award (2008), Zou Jingmeng Meteorological Science and Technology Talent Award (2018), the First Prize of Meteorological Science and Technology Progress Award of China Meteorological Society (2016), Tsinghua University-Inspur Group Computational Earth Science Young Talent Award (2016), etc.. She was a member of the Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices (ETCCDI) of the World Meteorological Organization and the World Climate Research Program, and currently serves as the main author of the Attribution Chapter of the Sixth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report. She has been engaged in climate change research for a long time, and her main research interests include the impact of human activities on climate change, extreme events and their detection and attribution. She has published more than 70 papers in Nature Climate Change, etc., cited by SCI nearly 3000 times.