PP21E:
Climate of the Common Era I

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Kevin J Anchukaitis, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Julien Emile-Geay, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Kevin J Anchukaitis, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Co-conveners:  Edward R Cook, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Julien Emile-Geay, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Jason E Smerdon, LDEO of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Jason E Smerdon, LDEO of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
Impact of Uncertainty of Boundary Conditions on Simulations of the Last Millennium
Allegra N LeGrande, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States and Kostas Tsigaridis, Columbia University, NASA/GISS, New York, NY, United States
8:15 AM
 
Variability of the North Atlantic Current over the Common Era
Paola Moffa Sanchez, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, Ian R Hall, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom, Andreas Born, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland, David J Thornalley, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Stephen Barker, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF24, United Kingdom and Thomas Richter, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, Netherlands
8:30 AM
 
Centennial and Extreme Climate Variability in the Last 1500 Year from the Belize Central Shelf Lagoon (Central America): Successive Droughts and Floods Linked to the Demise of the Mayan Civilization
Andre Willy Droxler1, Ayca Agar Cetin1 and Samuel J Bentley2, (1)Rice University, Earth Science, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
8:45 AM
 
Decadal Drought and Wetness Reconstructed for Subtropical North America in the Mexican Drought Atlas
Dorian J Burnette, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, United States, David W Stahle, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States, Edward R Cook, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Jose Villanueva-Diaz, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Laboratorio de Dendrocronologia, Gómez Palacio, Mexico, Daniel Griffin, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Benjamin Cook, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States
9:00 AM
 
Flooding of the Great River during the Common Era: A Paleohydrological Record of High Magnitude Flood Events from the Central Mississippi River Valley
Samuel E. Munoz1, Kristine E. Gruley1, Ashtin Massie1 and John W Williams2, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States
9:15 AM
 
Ancient Analogs of ENSO-Like Moisture Anomaly Patterns Across North America
David W Stahle, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States, Dorian J Burnette, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, United States and Edward R Cook, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
9:30 AM
 
Model-Data Comparisons of Pan-Continental Drought over North America during the Common Era
Sloan Coats, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Jason E Smerdon, LDEO of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, Richard Seager, Lamont Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States and Benjamin Cook, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States
9:45 AM
 
Ground warming and continental energy storage in the Northern Hemisphere during the Common Era: Impact of borehole depth.
Gurpreet S Matharoo, St. Francis Xavier University, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Hugo Beltrami, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Canada and Jason E Smerdon, LDEO of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States