GC44B:
Quantifying Uncertainty in Climate, Earth System, Integrated Assessment, and Impact Models and Observations III

Session ID#: 5194

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
3003 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Katharine Hayhoe, Texas Tech University, Climate Center, Lubbock, TX, United States, Mark Boslough, University of New Mexico, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Albuquerque, United States, Mary C Hill and Zhangshuan Hou, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Convener:  Maoyi Huang, National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Science and Technology Integration, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Co-conveners:  Donald D Lucas, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, Katharine Hayhoe, Texas Tech University, Climate Center, Lubbock, TX, United States and Linda Mearns, NCAR, RAL, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Mark Boslough, University of New Mexico, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Albuquerque, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • H - Hydrology
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1622 Earth system modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1627 Coupled models of the climate system [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]
6620 Science policy [PUBLIC ISSUES]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Characterizing Uncertainty

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

GC44B-01
A brief overview uncertainties in climate change projections and their consequences for impact assessment (Invited) (2703)
Claudia Tebaldi, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, United States
GC44B-02
Climate models, extremes and the role of statistics. (Invited) (3386)
Douglas W Nychka, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
GC44B-03
(non) Emergent Constraints (31937)
Charles S Jackson1, Mohammad Wasef Hattab2 and Gabriel Huerta2, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Albuquerque, NM, United States
GC44B-04
Regional climate predictability from regional climate feedbacks. (Invited) (20007)
Gerard Roe1, Nicole Feldl2, Kyle Armour3, Yen-Ting Hwang4 and Dargan M Frierson4, (1)University of Washington, Seattle, United States, (2)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, (4)University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States
GC44B-05
Stringent Mitigation Policy Implied By Temperature Impacts on Economic Growth (Invited) (6032)
Frances Claire Moore, Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, United States and Delavane Diaz, Stanford University, Management Science and Engineering, Stanford, United States
GC44B-06
The Influence of Downscaling Models and Observations on Future Hydrochemistry Reponses of Forest Watersheds (Invited) (3294)
Afshin Pourmokhtarian, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, Charles T Driscoll, Syracuse University, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Syracuse, NY, United States, John L Campbell, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Vallejo, CA, United States, Katharine Hayhoe, Texas Tech University, Climate Center, Lubbock, TX, United States and Anne Marie K Stoner, Texas Tech University, Climate Science Center, Lubbock, TX, United States
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