A13H:
Intraseasonal-to-Decadal Prediction and Predictability Associated with Terrestrial Surface Processes and Drought III Posters

Session ID#: 5364

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Siegfried D Schubert, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Juergen Vogt, European Commission, Ispra, Italy
Primary Convener:  Yongkang Xue, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, United States
Co-conveners:  Randal D Koster, NASA Goddard SFC, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States, Siegfried D Schubert, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Juergen Vogt, European Commission, Ispra, Italy
OSPA Liaison:  Bart Nijssen, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • C - Cryosphere
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0416 Biogeophysics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1833 Hydroclimatology [HYDROLOGY]
3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3322 Land/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Progress and Plans for an Experimental Global Drought Information System (7998)
Siegfried D Schubert, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
An Updated Decision Support Interface: A Tool for Remote Monitoring of Crop Growing Conditions (8868)
Gregory J Husak1, Michael E Budde2, James Rowland2, James P Verdin3, Chris C Funk4,5 and Martin Francis Landsfeld4, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)U.S. Geological Survey, Sioux Falls, United States, (3)University of Maryland, Boulder, United States, (4)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (5)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, United States
 
Implementing the Remotely Sensed Evaporative Stress Index Globally Using MODIS Day/Night Land-surface Temperatures (10627)
Martha Anderson, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, United States, Christopher Hain, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States and Jason Otkin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, CIMSS/SSEC, Madison, United States
 
Modeling Drought Impact Occurrence Based on Climatological Drought Indices for Europe (10899)
James Howard Stagge1, Irene Kohn2, Lena M Tallaksen1 and Kerstin Stahl3, (1)University of Oslo, Department of Geoscience, Oslo, Norway, (2)Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Department of Hydrology, Freiberg, Germany, (3)Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Freiberg, Germany
 
Global Drought Information System: Influence of Differences in Land Surface Model Dynamics on Drought Monitoring (12836)
Bart Nijssen, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Shraddhanand Shukla, University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Kingtse C Mo, NOAA Science Center, College Park, MD, United States and Dennis P Lettenmaier, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Reseach of Soil Moisture Measurement in Arid Areas by Using Ground-penetrating Radar (15096)
Qing Zhang1, Xiaojun Yin2, Qingzhan Zhao2 and Yanhong Wu1, (1)RADI Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)SHIHEZI University, Shihezi, China
 
Mapping the Duration and Severity of Drought Impacts on Grasslands in the Southern Great Plains through a Water-related Vegetation Index Derived from MODIS Imagery (26131)
Yuting Zhou1, Xiangming Xiao2, Geli Zhang3, Dr. Pradeep Wagle, Ph.D.4, Rajen Bajgain1 and Jeffrey B Basara5, (1)University of Oklahoma, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Norman, OK, United States, (2)School of Biological Sciences, Center for Earth Observation and Modeling, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States, (3)China Agricultural University, College of Land Science and Technology, Beijing, China, (4)University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, (5)University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology; School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Norman, United States
 
Potential of Using Microwave Emission in Global Analysis of Land Cover and Drought State (27870)
Yanna Chen, New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY, United States, Megha Bhambri, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, Hamid Norouzi, New York City College of Technology, CUNY, Brooklyn, United States and Amir AghaKouchak, United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), Richmond Hill, ON, Canada
 
A introduction of a Scientific Research Program on Chinese Drought (28349)
Yaohui Li, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
 
NOAA Drought Task Force: A Coordinated Research Initiative to Advance Drought Understanding, Monitoring and Prediction (29156)
Daniel Barrie and Annarita Mariotti, NOAA, Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, MD, United States