GC54B:
Climate Indicators: Developing and Testing Indicators to Convey Information to Support Decisions II

Friday, 19 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Lucia Tsaoussi, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, Melissa A Kenney, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States and Paul Raymond Houser, George Mason University, Geography and Geoinformation Science, Fairfax, VA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Allison Leidner, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Co-conveners:  Paul Raymond Houser, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, Melissa A Kenney, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States and Lucia Tsaoussi, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Paul Raymond Houser, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
GC54B-01
 
a Process-Based Drought Early Warning Indicator for Supporting State Drought Mitigation Decision
Rong Fu, Dinali Nelun Fernando and Bing Pu, University of Texas at Austin, Geological Sciences, Austin, TX, United States
4:15 PM
GC54B-02
 
Incorporating Fundamentals of Climate Monitoring into Climate Indicators at the National Climatic Data Center
Derek Shane Arndt, NOAA Asheville, Asheville, NC, United States
4:30 PM
GC54B-03
 
Opportunities and Challenges for the Contribution of Citizen Science to High-Quality, Traceable Indicators of Biodiversity in the Context of Climate Change
Jake F Weltzin, US Geological Survey, Tucson, AZ, United States; USA National Phenology Network, Tucson, AZ, United States
4:45 PM
GC54B-04
 
Vegetation Health and Productivity Indicators for Sustained National Climate Assessments
Matthew O Jones, NTSG - University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States and Steven W Running, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States
5:00 PM
GC54B-05
 
Inland Water Temperature: An Ideal Indicator for the National Climate Assessment
Simon J Hook, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, John D Lenters, LimnoTech, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Catherine O'Reilly, Illinois State University, Department of Geography-Geology, Normal, IL, United States and Nathan C Healey, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States
5:15 PM
GC54B-06
 
NASA Contributions to the Development and Testing of Climate Indicators
Paul Raymond Houser1, Allison K Leidner2, Lucia Tsaoussi3 and Jack A Kaye3, (1)George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, (2)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
5:30 PM
GC54B-07
 
CLIMATE INDICATORS FOR ENERGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Thomas J Wilbanks, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
5:45 PM
GC54B-08
 
Moving Towards Leading Indicators for Global Change
Anthony Janetos, Boston University, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston, MA, United States
 
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