GC24B:
The Third U.S. National Climate Assessment: Remaining Climate Science Questions

Session ID#: 2647

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
3001 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  David R Easterling, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, United States and Kenneth Kunkel, CICS-NC/NCDC, Asheville, NC, United States
Primary Convener:  David R Easterling, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, United States
Co-conveners:  Kenneth Kunkel, CICS-NC/NCDC, Asheville, NC, United States, Donald J Wuebbles, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, United States and John E Walsh, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
OSPA Liaison:  David R Easterling, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, United States
Index Terms:

1626 Global climate models [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

GC24B-01
Key Scientific Challenges for the Fourth National Climate Assessment (Invited) (7939)
Thomas Richard Karl, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC, United States and David R Easterling, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, United States
GC24B-02
Science Issues Associated with Precipitation and Storm Extremes (5143)
Kenneth Kunkel, CICS-NC/NCDC, Asheville, NC, United States
GC24B-03
Opportunities for increasing confidence in projections of future changes in extreme temperature and precipitation in the next US National Climate Assessment (Invited) (7075)
Michael F Wehner, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
GC24B-04
Remaining Uncertainties in the Causes of Past and Future Atlantic Hurricane Activity (4006)
James P Kossin, NOAA Asheville, Asheville, NC, United States
GC24B-05
Sea Level Rise in the 21st Century: Will projections ever become reliable? (18004)
Josh K Willis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
GC24B-06
A National Assessment of Sea Level Rise Exposure Using Lidar Elevation Data (26553)
Benjamin Strauss1, Scott Andrew Kulp1 and Claudia Tebaldi2, (1)Climate Central, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, United States
GC24B-07
Evaluating Problems with Long-Established Methods for Calculating Evapotranspiration Under Climate Change in the Great Lakes Basin: Take II (17981)
Brent M Lofgren, NOAA-Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Jonathan Rouhana, NOAA Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
GC24B-08
Seasonal Transitions in the Next Climate Assessments (30725)
Anji Seth, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States, Cary Lynch, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States and Jeanne M Thibeault, University of Connecticut, Geography, Storrs, CT, United States
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