H32C:
Hydroclimatic Extremes: Drought III

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Ashok K Mishra, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States, Amir AghaKouchak, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, Li-Chuan Chen, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States and Mike Hobbins, National Integrated Drought Information System, Boulder, CO, 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:  Ashok K Mishra, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
ENSO and Multi-Decadal 'trends' in Terrestrial Evaporation
Diego G Miralles1, Richard de Jeu2, Niko Verhoest1, Ryan Teuling3, John Gash4, Martinus Johannes van Den Berg1, Raquel O Nieto5, Luis Gimeno6, Wouter Dorigo7, Robert Parinussa2, Thomas R Holmes8, Carlos Jimenez9, Hylke Beck10 and A Johannes Dolman11, (1)Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, (2)VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (3)Hydrology Quant. Water Mgnt, Wageningen, Netherlands, (4)CEH, Wallingford, United Kingdom, (5)University of Vigo, Ourense, Spain, (6)Facultad Ciencias Ourense, Ourense, Spain, (7)Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, (8)USDA ARS, Beltsville, MD, United States, (9)Estellus, Paris, France, (10)Joint Research Center Ispra, Ispra, Italy, (11)Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1081, Netherlands
10:35 AM
 
Exploring the use of physically based evaporative demand anomalies to improve seasonal drought prediction
Daniel Mcevoy1, Mike Hobbins2, Justin Lee Huntington1, John Mejia3, Christopher Hain4, Martha C. Anderson5 and James P Verdin6, (1)Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (2)National Integrated Drought Information System, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States, (4)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, COLLEGE PARK, MD, United States, (5)USDA ARS, Pendleton, OR, United States, (6)USGS/EROS, Boulder, CO, United States
10:50 AM
 
Improving early drought detection using satellite-based relative humidity data
Alireza Farahmand1, Amir AghaKouchak1 and Joao Teixeira2, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
11:05 AM
 
Variations in terrestrial water storage caused by drought: Near real-time monitoring using GPS vertical position data
Eric E Small, Univ of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Clara C Chew, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
11:20 AM
 
The Real Drought Uncovered
Henny Van Lanen1, Niko Wanders2 and Anne Van Loon1,3, (1)Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, (2)Utrecht University, Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands, (3)University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom
11:35 AM
 
Skill Assessment of National Multi-Model Ensemble Forecasts for Seasonal Drought Prediction in East Africa
Shraddhanand Shukla1, Andrew Hoell1, Jason B Roberts2, Chris C Funk1 and Franklin R Robertson2, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
11:50 AM
 
Analysis of Hydrologic Droughts in Amazon Watersheds
Alan V Lopes, Sally E Thompson and John A Dracup, University of California Berkeley, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, CA, United States
12:05 PM
 
Drought in the Pacific Northwest, 1920-2013
Mu Xiao1, Bart Nijssen1, Yixin Mao1 and Dennis P Lettenmaier2, (1)University of Washington, seattle, WA, United States, (2)University of California, Los Angeles (effective Nov., 2014), Dept. of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
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