H32C:
Hydroclimatic Extremes: Drought III

Session ID#: 4882

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
3003 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Ashok K Mishra, Texas A&M University, College Station, United States, Amir AghaKouchak, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, L. Gwen Chen, NOAA/NWS/NCEP Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, United States and Mike Hobbins, National Integrated Drought Information System, Boulder, United States
Primary Convener:  L. Gwen Chen, NOAA/NWS/NCEP Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, United States
Co-conveners:  Lifeng Luo, Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States, Shahrbanou Madadgar, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States and Ashok K Mishra, Texas A&M University, College Station, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Ashok K Mishra, Texas A&M University, College Station, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

1812 Drought [HYDROLOGY]
1817 Extreme events [HYDROLOGY]
1833 Hydroclimatology [HYDROLOGY]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

H32C-01
ENSO and Multi-Decadal 'trends' in Terrestrial Evaporation (Invited) (3911)
Diego G Miralles1, Richard de Jeu2, Niko Verhoest3, Ryan Teuling4, John Gash5, Martinus Johannes van Den Berg6, Raquel Nieto7, Luis Gimeno7, Wouter Dorigo8, Robert Parinussa2, Thomas R Holmes9, Carlos Jimenez10, Hylke Beck11 and A Johannes Dolman12, (1)Ghent University, Hydro-Climate Extremes Lab (H-CEL), Gent, Belgium, (2)VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (3)Ghent University, Laboratory of Hydrology and Water Management, Ghent, Belgium, (4)Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands, (5)CEH, Wallingford, United Kingdom, (6)Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, (7)Centro de Investigación Mariña, Universidade de Vigo, Environmental Physics Laboratory (EPhysLab), Ourense, Spain, (8)Vienna University of Technology, Department for Geodesy and Geoinformation, Vienna, Austria, (9)USDA ARS, Beltsville, United States, (10)Estellus, Paris, France, (11)King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, (12)Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
H32C-02
Exploring the use of physically based evaporative demand anomalies to improve seasonal drought prediction (Invited) (4818)
Daniel McEvoy, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Mike Hobbins, National Integrated Drought Information System, Boulder, United States, Justin Huntington, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States, John Mejia, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, United States, Christopher Hain, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, Martha Anderson, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, United States and James P Verdin, University of Maryland, Boulder, United States
H32C-03
Improving early drought detection using satellite-based relative humidity data (14169)
Alireza Farahmand, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Amir AghaKouchak, University of California, Center for Hydrometeorology & Remote Sensing, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, California, United States and Joao Teixeira, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
H32C-04
Variations in terrestrial water storage caused by drought: Near real-time monitoring using GPS vertical position data (28295)
Eric E Small, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Geological Sciences, Boulder, United States and Clara C Chew, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
H32C-05
The Real Drought Uncovered (12426)
Henny Van Lanen1, Niko Wanders2 and Anne Van Loon1,3, (1)Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, (2)Utrecht University, Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands, (3)University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom
H32C-06
Skill Assessment of National Multi-Model Ensemble Forecasts for Seasonal Drought Prediction in East Africa (11730)
Shraddhanand Shukla1, Andrew Hoell2, Jason B Roberts3, Chris C Funk4 and Franklin R Robertson3, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (3)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
H32C-07
Analysis of Hydrologic Droughts in Amazon Watersheds (30741)
Alan Vaz Lopes, Sally E Thompson and John A Dracup, University of California Berkeley, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, CA, United States
H32C-08
Drought in the Pacific Northwest, 1920-2013 (13082)
Mu Xiao1, Bart Nijssen2, Yixin Mao2 and Dennis P Lettenmaier3, (1)Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States, (2)University of Washington, seattle, WA, United States, (3)University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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