GC52A:
Climate and Environmental Data, Information, and Knowledge for Societal Decision Making in the U.S. and International/SERVIR Regions I

Session ID#: 3560

Friday, 19 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
3001 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Laurna Kaatz, Denver Water, Denver, CO, United States, Daniel Irwin, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, Nancy D Searby, NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States and Lawrence Buja, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Convener:  Lawrence Buja, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-conveners:  Eric Ross Anderson, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, United States, Nancy D Searby, NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States and Laurna Kaatz, Denver Water, Denver, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Ashutosh S Limaye, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Index Terms:

1626 Global climate models [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Global Change: Science Literacy, Societal Impacts, and Response Strategies

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

GC52A-01
Empowering America’s Communities to Prepare for the Effects of Climate Change: Developing Actionable Climate Science Under the President’s Climate Action Plan (10677)
Philip B. Duffy1, Peter Colohan1, Rick Driggers1, David Drew Herring2, Fabien Laurier3, Laura Petes1, Susan Ruffo1, Curt Tilmes4, Bina Venkataraman1 and Christopher P Weaver1, (1)Executive Office of the President, Washington, DC, United States, (2)NOAA, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (3)Executive Office of the President, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Washington, DC, United States, (4)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
GC52A-02
Providing a Fuller Characterization of Uncertainty in Climate Impact Assessments to Better Inform Local-to-Regional Scale Decisions in the Water Resources Sector (Invited) (2298)
Dr. Jeffrey Richard Arnold1, Martyn P Clark2, Andrew James Newman3, Andrew W Wood4, Ethan D Gutmann5, Naoki Mizukami5, Pablo A. Mendoza6, Roy Rasmussen7, Kyoko Ikeda7 and Levi D Brekke8, (1)U.S. Army Engineer Institute for Water Resources, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)University of Calgary, Department of Civil Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, Calgary, AB, Canada, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, CGD Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (5)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (6)Advanced Mining Technology Center (AMTC), Santiago, Chile, (7)NCAR/RAL, Boulder, United States, (8)U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, United States
GC52A-03
Application of Satellite information (JASON-2) in improvement of Flood Forecasting and Early Warning Service in Bangladesh (Invited) (25754)
MD AMIRUL Hossain1, Eric Ross Anderson2, Mohammad Arifuzzaman Bhuiyan1, Faisal Hossain3 and Sardar M Shah-Newaz4, (1)Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre, Bangladesh Water Development Board, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (2)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, United States, (3)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States, (4)Institute of Water Modelling, FMG Division, Dhaka, Bangladesh
GC52A-04
WRF Simulation over the Eastern Africa by use of Land Surface Initialization (Invited) (15988)
Vincent Newton Sakwa1, Jonathan Case2, Ashutosh S Limaye2, Bradley Zavodsky3, Eric Sirengo Kabuchanga4 and John Mungai1, (1)Kenya Meteorological Service, Forecasting, Nairobi, Kenya, (2)ENSCO, Inc./NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development, RS, Nairobi, Kenya
GC52A-05
Climate and Population Health Vulnerabilities to Vector-Borne Diseases: Increasing Resilience Under Climate Change Conditions in Africa (Invited) (8420)
Pietro Ceccato1, Kyle C McDonald2, Erika Podest3, Manuel de la Torre Juarez4, Andrew Kruczkiewicz5, Jerrod Lessel1, Kat Jensen6 and Madeleine C Thomson1, (1)International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)City University of New York - City College, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, New York, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (5)Columbia University, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Palisades, NY, United States, (6)Muon Space, Mountain View, United States
GC52A-06
Intersections of downscaling, the ethics of climate services, and regional research grand challenges. (22122)
Bruce Hewitson, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Christopher David Jack, University of Cape Town, Climate System Analysis Group, Cape Town, South Africa and William J Gutowski Jr, Iowa State Univ, Department of the Earth, Atmosphere, and Climate, Ames, United States
GC52A-07
Towards Systematic Benchmarking of Climate Model Performance (Invited) (13205)
Peter J Gleckler, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
GC52A-08
Informing Adaptation Decisions: What Do We Need to Know and What Do We Need to Do? (Invited) (6312)
Roger S Pulwarty, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States and Robert Stabler Webb, NOAA/OAR/PSL, Boulder, CO, United States
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