GC12B:
Observed and Projected Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources and Agriculture I

Monday, 15 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Chris C Funk, University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Shraddhanand Shukla, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Vimal Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, 382, India
Primary Conveners:  Chris C Funk, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Vimal Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, 382, India and Shraddhanand Shukla, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Chris C Funk, University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
Quantifying the crucial role of snow in supplying human water demand
Justin S Mankin, Stanford University, Los Altos Hills, CA, United States, Daniel Viviroli, University of Zurich, Department of Geography, Zurich, Switzerland, Mesfin M Mekonnen, University of Twente, Deptartment of Water Engineering & Management, Enschede, Netherlands, Arjen Y. Y. Hoekstra, University of Twente, Enschede, 7500, Netherlands and Noah S Diffenbaugh, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
10:32 AM
 
Challenges in Large-Scale Water Availability Changes.
Kevin E Trenberth, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
10:50 AM
 
Projections of agricultural droughts in the Southeast Asia
Vimal Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, 382, India
11:02 AM
 
AgMIP: New Results from Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia Regional Integrated Assessments
Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States; Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
11:20 AM
 
Changes in the explanation of global crop yields due to climate variability
Deepak K Ray, James S Gerber, Graham K MacDonald and Paul C West, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States
11:32 AM
 
Adapting the US Food System to Climate Change Goes Beyond the Farm Gate
William E Easterling, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
11:50 AM
 
A Framework for Evaluation of CORDEX Using Dam Operation Policies for the East African Hydroelectric Power Industry
Kara A Smith and Fredrick H.M. Semazzi, North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States
12:02 PM
 
Trends in Systemic Risks to Food Security
James S Gerber1, Deepak K Ray2, Iñaki Garcia de Cortazar-Atauri3, Graham K MacDonald2 and Paul C West2, (1)University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, United States, (2)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (3)INRA Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Avignon, France