Chairs: Donald D Lucas, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, Maoyi Huang, National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Science and Technology Integration, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Jaideep Ray, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States and Edwin P Maurer, Santa Clara University, Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering Department, Santa Clara, 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: Katharine Hayhoe, Texas Tech University, Climate Center, Lubbock, TX, United States, Linda Mearns, NCAR, RAL, Boulder, CO, United States and Elisabeth A Lloyd, Indiana University Bloomington, History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine, Bloomington, IN, United States
OSPA Liaison: Jaideep Ray, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Empirical Determination of the Human Influence on Climate Change (9101)
Austin Patrick Hope, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, College Park, MD, United States, Timothy P Canty, University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, College Park, United States, Nora R Mascioli, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States and Ross J Salawitch, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College Park, United States
Using Runoff Data to Calibrate the Community Land Model (10905)
Jaideep Ray, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Zhangshuan Hou, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Maoyi Huang, National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Science and Technology Integration, Silver Spring, MD, United States and Laura Swiler, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States
Assessing the impacts of using energy balance models to estimate probabililty distributions of equilibrium climate sensitivity (22421)
Chris E Forest, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, Ashley Warner, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Klaus Keller, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States and Andrei P Sokolov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Cambridge, MA, United States
Parameter Estimation in High-Dimensional Climate Models (16906)
Cosmin Safta1, Khachik Sargsyan1, Bert Debusschere2, Habib N Najm3, Daniel M Ricciuto4 and Peter E Thornton5, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Oakland, CA, United States, (3)Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, United States, (4)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (5)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States
From Land Use to Land Cover: Restoring the Afforestation Signal in a Coupled Integrated Assessment - Earth System Model and the Implications for CMIP5 RCP Simulations (20832)
Alan V Di Vittorio1, Louise P Chini2, Ben P Bond-Lamberty3, Jiafu Mao4, Xiaoying Shi5, John E. Truesdale6, Anthony Craig7, Katherine V Calvin8, Andrew D Jones1, William Drew Collins9, James Edmonds10, George C Hurtt2, Peter E Thornton11 and Allison M Thomson8, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Richland, WA, United States, (4)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (5)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (6)Independent contractor with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)Independent contractor, Seattle, United States, (8)Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, MD, United States, (9)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Science, Berkeley, CA, United States, (10)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, United States, (11)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States
Assessing the Assessment Methods: Climate Change and Hydrologic Impacts (10323)
Levi D Brekke1, Martyn P Clark2, Ethan D Gutmann3, Naoki Mizukami3, Pablo A. Mendoza4, Roy Rasmussen5, Kyoko Ikeda6, Tom Pruitt7, Dr. Jeffrey Richard Arnold8 and Balaji Rajagopalan9, (1)U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, United States, (2)University of Calgary, Department of Civil Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, Calgary, AB, Canada, (3)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (4)Advanced Mining Technology Center (AMTC), Santiago, Chile, (5)NCAR/RAL, Boulder, United States, (6)NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO, United States, (8)U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle, WA, United States, (9)Univ Colorado, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States
Uncertainty in stormwater drainage adaptation: what matters and how much is too much? (31637)
Latham J Stack1, Michael H Simpson2, Trisha Moore3, Prof. John S. Stephen Gulliver4, Robert Roseen5, Lois Eberhart6, Joel B Smith7, James Gruber2, Leslie Yetka4, Robert Wood8 and Colin Lawson9, (1)Syntectic International, LLC, Portland, OR, United States, (2)Antioch University New England, Environmental Studies, Keene, NH, United States, (3)Kansas State University, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Manhattan, United States, (4)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (5)Geosyntec Consultants Acton, Acton, MA, United States, (6)City of Minneapolis, Department of Public Works, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (7)Stratus Consulting Inc., Boulder, CO, United States, (8)Lake Sunapee Protective Association, Sunapee, NH, United States, (9)Trout Unlimited, Portsmouth, NH, United States