H31M:
Hydroclimatic Extremes: Drought II

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Hamid Moradkhani, Portland State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Portland, OR, United States, Lifeng Luo, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States, Shahrbanou Madadgar, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States and Li-Chuan Chen, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Conveners:  Li-Chuan Chen, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Co-conveners:  Lifeng Luo, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States, Shahrbanou Madadgar, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States and Ashok K Mishra, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Shahrbanou Madadgar, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
Large-Scale Controls on Drought World-Wide
Siegfried D Schubert, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Hailan Wang, SSAI, Hampton, VA, United States and Randal D Koster, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
8:15 AM
 
Climatic Drought Conditions in US and India during the Past Century
Ximing Cai1, Yan Ge1 and Tingju Zhu2, (1)UIUC-Civil & Environ Engrg, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)Int''l Food Policy Res Inst, Washington, DC, United States
8:30 AM
 
Drought in California: It’s All about the Biggest Storms
Michael D Dettinger, U.S. Geological Survey, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
8:45 AM
 
Stochastic analysis of California's recent precipitation drought in the context of the last one hundred years
Guido Salvucci1, Dan Gianotti2 and Bruce T Anderson2, (1)Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (2)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
9:00 AM
 
Exploring the linkage between drought, high temperatures, and hydrologic sensitivities: A case study of the 2012 Great Plains drought.
Ben Livneh, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States and Martin P Hoerling, NOAA Boulder, ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States
9:15 AM
 
Anatomy of A Local Scale Drought
Ashok K Mishra, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States, Amor V M Ines, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, Narendra N Das, Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States and Prakash Khedun, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States
9:30 AM
 
Evaluating the Influence of Precipitation, Temperature, and Soil Moisture on Upper Colorado River Basin Streamflow and Drought
Connie A Woodhouse, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Stephanie A McAfee, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Gregory J McCabe Jr, USGS, National Research Program, Lakewood, CO, United States, William P Miller, NOAA Colorado Basin River Forecast Center, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and Gregory T Pederson, U.S. Geological Survey, Bozeman, MT, United States
9:45 AM
 
Trends and Sensitivities of Low Streamflow Extremes in Pacific Northwest
Patrick R Kormos1,2, Charles Luce1 and Seth J. Wenger3, (1)USDA Forest Service, Boise, ID, United States, (2)Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)University of Georgia, River Basin Center - Odum School of Ecology, Athens, GA, United States
 
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