H33N:
Hydroclimatic Extremes: Drought IV

Session ID#: 4883

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
3018 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Ashok K Mishra1, Amir AghaKouchak2, Lifeng Luo3 and Shahrbanou Madadgar2, (1)Texas A&M University, College Station, United States(2)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States(3)Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, MI, 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?: Yes

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

H33N-01
How to Generate More Reliable Seasonal Drought Forecasts and Analyze Drought Recovery Under Uncertainties? (Invited) (4530)
Hamid Moradkhani, The University of Alabama, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering; Department of Computer Science, Tuscaloosa, United States and Caleb M DeChant, Portland State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Portland, OR, United States
H33N-02
Building Gateway Tools for Informed Decision Making: The Drought Risk Atlas and U.S. Drought Monitor (Invited) (4865)
Mark D Svoboda1, Brian Fuchs1, Calvin Poulsen1, Jeff Nothwehr1 and Scott Owen2, (1)National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, (2)Concentric Corporation, Omaha,, NE, United States
H33N-03
Merging Paleoclimatic Reconstructions, Observations, and Models to Refine Drought Risk Assessments (17980)
Jason E Smerdon1, Benjamin I Cook2, Edward R Cook1 and Richard Seager1, (1)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States
H33N-04
Instrumental and Reconstructed Water Year Precipitation for the Western United States: A 440-Year Perspective (9501)
Henry F Diaz, University of Hawaii, Maui, HI, United States and Eugene R Wahl, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
H33N-05
Evidence low-frequency climate variability mode in the North American Monsoon System as diagnosed by a WRF dynamically downscaled 20th-century reanalysis (30458)
Carlos M. Carrillo1, Christopher L Castro2, Hsin-I Chang2 and Thang Manh Manh Luong1, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
H33N-06
Impacts of Climate Change on Drought at Different Temporal Scales (23001)
Martijn J. Booij, University of Twente, Department of Water Engineering and Management, Enschede, Netherlands, Hildemar Houtenbos, University of Twente, Enschede, 7500, Netherlands and Arjen Y. Y. Hoekstra, University of Twente, Water Engineering and Management group, Enschede, Netherlands
H33N-07
Changes in Concurrent Droughts and Heatwaves in the United States (14008)
Omid Mazdiyasni, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States and 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
H33N-08
Drought Definitions Revisited (21085)
Anne Van Loon, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Water and Climate Risk, Amsterdam, Netherlands; University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Henny Van Lanen, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands and Tom Gleeson, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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