Alex Hall

Through the development of climate models, research indicates that by the mid-twenty-first century the Los Angeles region on average is mostly likely to warm by 4.6 degrees Fahrenheit, with high elevations and inland areas warming up to 50 percent more than areas near the coast, especially in summertime. Heat extremes are likely to increase significantly; therefore, adaptation to a change climate over the next few decades is likely to be inevitable in the Los Angeles region, according to Dr. Alex Hall. In his lecture Dr. Hall will discuss future changes in precipitation, surface hydrology, Santa Ana winds, and coastal fog.

Dr. Hall is a professor at University of California, Los Angeles, teaching climate-related courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He is the faculty director of the UCLA Center for Climate Change Solutions. Dr. Hall was a contributing author to the 2007 IPCC fourth scientific assessment of climate change Working Group I report and a lead author for Chapter 14 of the Working Group I component of the upcoming IPCC fifth assessment, Climate Phenomena and their Relevance for Future Regional Climate Change.

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