H33N:
Hydroclimatic Extremes: Drought IV

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  Ashok K Mishra, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States, Amir AghaKouchak, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, Lifeng Luo, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States and Shahrbanou Madadgar, Portland State University, Portland, OR, 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:

1:40 PM
H33N-01
 
How to Generate More Reliable Seasonal Drought Forecasts and Analyze Drought Recovery Under Uncertainties?
Hamid Moradkhani and Caleb M DeChant, Portland State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Portland, OR, United States
1:55 PM
H33N-02
 
Building Gateway Tools for Informed Decision Making: The Drought Risk Atlas and U.S. Drought Monitor
Mark Svoboda1, Brian Fuchs1, Calvin Poulsen1, Jeff Nothwehr1 and Scott Owen2, (1)National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, (2)Concentric Corporation, Omaha,, NE, United States
2:10 PM
H33N-03
 
Merging Paleoclimatic Reconstructions, Observations, and Models to Refine Drought Risk Assessments
Jason E Smerdon, LDEO of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, Benjamin Cook, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, Edward R Cook, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Richard Seager, Lamont Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States
2:25 PM
H33N-04
 
Instrumental and Reconstructed Water Year Precipitation for the Western United States: A 440-Year Perspective
Henry F Diaz and Eugene R Wahl, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
2:40 PM
H33N-05
 
Evidence low-frequency climate variability mode in the North American Monsoon System as diagnosed by a WRF dynamically downscaled 20th-century reanalysis
Carlos Mauricio Carrillo, Christopher L Castro, Hsin-I Chang and Thang Manh Luong, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
2:55 PM
H33N-06
 
Impacts of Climate Change on Drought at Different Temporal Scales
Martijn J. Booij, Hildemar Houtenbos and Arjen Y. Y. Hoekstra, University of Twente, Enschede, 7500, Netherlands
3:10 PM
H33N-07
 
Changes in Concurrent Droughts and Heatwaves in the United States
Omid Mazdiyasni and Amir AghaKouchak, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
3:25 PM
H33N-08
 
Drought Definitions Revisited
Anne Van Loon1,2, Henny Van Lanen1 and Tom Gleeson3, (1)Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, (2)University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom, (3)McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
 
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