GC52A:
Climate and Environmental Data, Information, and Knowledge for Societal Decision Making in the U.S. and International/SERVIR Regions I

Friday, 19 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Laurna Kaatz, Denver Water, Denver, CO, United States, Daniel Irwin, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, Nancy D Searby, NASA Headquarters, Falls Church, VA, United States and Lawrence Buja, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Conveners:  Lawrence Buja, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-conveners:  Eric Ross Anderson, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, Nancy D Searby, NASA Headquarters, Falls Church, VA, United States and Laurna Kaatz, Denver Water, Denver, CO, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Ashutosh S Limaye, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
GC52A-01
 
Empowering America’s Communities to Prepare for the Effects of Climate Change: Developing Actionable Climate Science Under the President’s Climate Action Plan
Philip B. Duffy1, Peter Colohan1, Rick Driggers1, David Herring2, Fabien Laurier1, Laura Petes1, Susan Ruffo1, Curt Tilmes3, Bina Venkataraman1 and Christopher P Weaver1, (1)Executive Office of the President, Washington, DC, United States, (2)NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
10:35 AM
GC52A-02
 
Providing a Fuller Characterization of Uncertainty in Climate Impact Assessments to Better Inform Local-to-Regional Scale Decisions in the Water Resources Sector
J R Arnold1, Martyn P Clark2, Andrew James Newman3, Andrew W Wood3, Ethan D Gutmann3, Naoki Mizukami3, Pablo A Mendoza4, Roy Rasmussen5, Kyoko Ikeda5 and Levi D Brekke6, (1)U.S. Army Engineer Institute for Water Resources, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO, United States
10:50 AM
GC52A-03
 
Application of Satellite information (JASON-2) in improvement of Flood Forecasting and Early Warning Service in Bangladesh
MD AMIRUL Hossain1, Eric Ross Anderson2, Mohammad Arifuzzaman Bhuiyan1, Faisal Hossain3 and Sardar M Shah-Newaz4, (1)Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre, Bangladesh Water Development Board, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (2)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)Institute of Water Modelling, FMG Division, Dhaka, Bangladesh
11:05 AM
GC52A-04
 
WRF Simulation over the Eastern Africa by use of Land Surface Initialization
Vincent Newton Sakwa1, Jonathan Case2, Ashutosh S Limaye2, Bradley Zavodsky3, Eric Kabuchanga4 and John Mungai1, (1)Kenya Meteorological Service, Forecasting, Nairobi, Kenya, (2)ENSCO, Inc./NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development, RS, Nairobi, Kenya
11:20 AM
GC52A-05
 
Climate and Population Health Vulnerabilities to Vector-Borne Diseases: Increasing Resilience Under Climate Change Conditions in Africa
Pietro Ceccato1, Kyle C McDonald2, Erika Podest3, Manuel De La Torre Juarez3, Andrew Kruczkiewicz1, Jerrod Lessel1, Katherine Jensen2 and Madeleine C Thomson1, (1)International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)CCNY-Earth & Atmos Sciences, New York, NY, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
11:35 AM
GC52A-06
 
Intersections of downscaling, the ethics of climate services, and regional research grand challenges.
Bruce Hewitson1, Christopher Jack1 and William J Gutowski Jr2, (1)University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, (2)Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA, United States
11:50 AM
GC52A-07
 
Towards Systematic Benchmarking of Climate Model Performance
Peter J Gleckler, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
12:05 PM
GC52A-08
 
Informing Adaptation Decisions: What Do We Need to Know and What Do We Need to Do?
Roger S Pulwarty, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States and Robert Stabler Webb, NOAA/OAR/ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States
 
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