GC12B:
Observed and Projected Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources and Agriculture I

Session ID#: 2424

Monday, 15 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
3003 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Chris C Funk, University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Shraddhanand Shukla, University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, United States and Mishra Vimal, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Department of Civil Engineering, Gandhinagar, India
Primary Convener:  Chris C Funk, UC Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Santa Barbara, United States
Co-conveners:  Mishra Vimal, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Department of Civil Engineering, Gandhinagar, India and Shraddhanand Shukla, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Chris C Funk, University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1807 Climate impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1812 Drought [HYDROLOGY]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Quantifying the crucial role of snow in supplying human water demand (13001)
Justin S Mankin, Dartmouth College, Hanover, United States, Daniel Viviroli, University of Zurich, Department of Geography, Zurich, Switzerland, Mesfin M Mekonnen, University of Twente, Deptartment of Water Engineering & Management, Enschede, Netherlands, Arjen Y. Y. Hoekstra, University of Twente, Water Engineering and Management group, Enschede, Netherlands and Noah S Diffenbaugh, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, United States
Challenges in Large-Scale Water Availability Changes. (Invited) (4858)
Kevin E Trenberth, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
Projections of agricultural droughts in the Southeast Asia (14688)
Mishra Vimal, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Department of Civil Engineering, Gandhinagar, India
AgMIP: New Results from Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia Regional Integrated Assessments (Invited) (4245)
Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States; Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
Changes in the explanation of global crop yields due to climate variability (22192)
Deepak K Ray1, James S Gerber2, Graham K MacDonald2 and Paul C West2, (1)University of Minnesota, Institute on the Environment, Saint Paul, United States, (2)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Adapting the US Food System to Climate Change Goes Beyond the Farm Gate (Invited) (5275)
William E Easterling, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
A Framework for Evaluation of CORDEX Using Dam Operation Policies for the East African Hydroelectric Power Industry (29505)
Kara A Smith and Fredrick H.M. Semazzi, North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States
Trends in Systemic Risks to Food Security (Invited) (6214)
James S Gerber1, Deepak K Ray2, Iñaki Garcia de Cortazar-Atauri3, Graham K MacDonald4 and Paul C West4, (1)University of Minnesota, St Paul, United States, (2)University of Minnesota, Institute on the Environment, Saint Paul, United States, (3)INRA Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Avignon, France, (4)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States