GC43D
Climate Extremes: Trends, Mechanisms, and Prediction II

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 13:40-15:40
3012 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  JinHo Yoon, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, Min-Hui Lo, NTU National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan and Hyungjun Kim, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
Chairs:  JinHo Yoon, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Min-Hui Lo, NTU National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
13:40
Multi-scale characteristics of extreme precipitation episodes in the southern United States (Invited) (73140)
Russ S Schumacher, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
13:55
Weather Climate Interactions and Extreme Events in the Climate System (66084)
Paul E. Roundy, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
14:10
The Intensification of Global and Regional Climate Variability and Change (67134)
Scott J Weaver, NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States
14:25
Exploring the active role of water vapor in creating more extreme SSTs and climate variations (70100)
Chris C Funk, University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Andrew Hoell, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
14:40
A Mechanism Linking Tropical-Arctic Teleconnection to Northern Hemisphere Mid-Latitude Weather Events (Invited) (59754)
Qinghua Ding, Polar Science Center, Seattle, WA, United States, David S Battisti, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, Axel J B Schweiger, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Qin Zhang, CPC NCEP, College Park, MD, United States
14:55
The Joint Statistics of California Temperature and Precipitation as a Function of the Large-scale State of the Climate (76501)
John P OBrien, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
15:10
Impact of Springtime NAO on Weather Conditions and Snow Melting in the Southwestern US (75900)
Boksoon Myoung1, Seung Hee Kim1, Jinwon Kim2 and Menas Kafatos3, (1)Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Chapman University, CEESMO, Orange, CA, United States
15:25
The Self-Regulated Induction of United States Cold Air Outbreaks by the North Atlantic Oscillation (78873)
Robert X Black and Rebecca M Westby, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States