GC24B:
The Third U.S. National Climate Assessment: Remaining Climate Science Questions

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  David R Easterling, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC, United States and Kenneth Kunkel, CICS-NC/NCDC, Asheville, NC, United States
Primary Conveners:  David R Easterling, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC, United States
Co-conveners:  Kenneth Kunkel, CICS-NC/NCDC, Asheville, NC, United States, Donald J Wuebbles, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States and John E Walsh, Univ Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  David R Easterling, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
GC24B-01
 
Key Scientific Challenges for the Fourth National Climate Assessment
Thomas Richard Karl, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC, United States
4:15 PM
GC24B-02
 
Science Issues Associated with Precipitation and Storm Extremes
Kenneth Kunkel, CICS-NC/NCDC, Asheville, NC, United States
4:30 PM
GC24B-03
 
Opportunities for increasing confidence in projections of future changes in extreme temperature and precipitation in the next US National Climate Assessment
Michael F Wehner, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
4:45 PM
GC24B-04
 
Remaining Uncertainties in the Causes of Past and Future Atlantic Hurricane Activity
James P Kossin, NOAA Asheville, Asheville, NC, United States
5:00 PM
GC24B-05
 
Sea Level Rise in the 21st Century: Will projections ever become reliable?
Josh K Willis, Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States
5:15 PM
GC24B-06
 
A National Assessment of Sea Level Rise Exposure Using Lidar Elevation Data
Benjamin Strauss, Scott Andrew Kulp and Claudia Tebaldi, Climate Central, Princeton, NJ, United States
5:30 PM
GC24B-07
 
Evaluating Problems with Long-Established Methods for Calculating Evapotranspiration Under Climate Change in the Great Lakes Basin: Take II
Brent M Lofgren and Jonathan Rouhana, NOAA Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
5:45 PM
GC24B-08
 
Seasonal Transitions in the Next Climate Assessments
Anji Seth, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States, Cary Lynch, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States and Jeanne M Thibeault, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States
 
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