GC34B:
Extreme Events and Climate Change: Impacts on Environment and Resources III

Session ID#: 5169

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
3001 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Michael R Hiscock, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC, United States and Dorothy M Koch, United States Department of Energy, Office of Science, Washington, United States
Primary Convener:  Michael R Hiscock, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC, United States
Co-conveners:  John P Dawson, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Air Resource Management, Tallahassee, FL, United States and Dorothy M Koch, United States Department of Energy, Office of Science, Washington, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Michael R Hiscock, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0345 Pollution: urban and regional [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1807 Climate impacts [HYDROLOGY]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

GC34B-01
Diagnosing the connections between western US extreme precipitation and remote forcing (19911)
Katherine J Evans, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States, Tianyu Jiang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Yi Deng, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States
GC34B-02
Relationship Among High Rainfall Rates, Atmospheric Moisture, and Temperature Based on High-Resolution Radar-Based Precipitation Estimates (13723)
Scott E Stevens1, Brian R Nelson2, Kenneth Kunkel1, Olivier P Prat1 and Thomas Richard Karl2, (1)Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS), North Carolina State University, and NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), Asheville, NC, United States, (2)NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), Asheville, NC, United States
GC34B-03
Effects of Climate Change on Flood Frequency in the Pacific Northwest (11915)
Diana R Gergel1, Matt R Stumbaugh1, SE-Yeun Lee1, Bart Nijssen1 and Dennis P Lettenmaier1,2, (1)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
GC34B-04
Critical Watersheds: Climate Change, Tipping Points, and Energy-Water Impacts (26185)
Richard Middleton1, Michael William Brown1, Ethan Coon2, Rodman Linn1, Nathan G G McDowell1, Scott L Painter3 and Chonggang Xu1, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
GC34B-05
Ecological Response to Extreme Flow Events in Streams and Rivers: Implications of Climate Change for Aquatic Biodiversity (Invited) (18328)
Charles P Hawkins1, Jacob J Vander Laan1, Sulochan Dhungel2 and David G Tarboton3, (1)Utah State University, Department of Watershed Sciences, Logan, UT, United States, (2)Utah State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Logan, UT, United States, (3)Utah State University, Utah Water Research Laboratory, Logan, UT, United States
GC34B-06
Role of storms and forest practices in sedimentation of an Oregon Coast Range lake (20629)
Kristin Richardson, Jeff A Hatten, Robert A Wheatcroft and Francisco J J. Guerrero, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
GC34B-07
Projection of Climate Change Impacts on Watershed Storage and Hydropower Generation (Invited) (6833)
Shih-Chieh Kao1, Bibi S Naz2, Sudershan Gangrade3, Moetasim Ashfaq4, Rui Mei2 and Deeksha Rastogi2, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Science Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (4)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
GC34B-08
Impacts of drought on the water and energy systems (Invited) (3060)
L. Ruby Leung1, Maoyi Huang2, Hong-Yi Li3, Nathalie Voisin1, Mohamad Issa Hejazi4, Pralit Patel4, Yuyu Zhou5 and James Dirks1, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Science and Technology Integration, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (3)University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States, (4)Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, United States, (5)Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States
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