GC34B:
Extreme Events and Climate Change: Impacts on Environment and Resources III

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Michael R Hiscock, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC, United States and Dorothy M Koch, United States Department of Energy, Office of Science, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Conveners:  Michael R Hiscock, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC, United States
Co-conveners:  John P Dawson, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Air Resource Management, Tallahassee, FL, United States and Dorothy M Koch, United States Department of Energy, Office of Science, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Michael R Hiscock, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
GC34B-01
 
Diagnosing the connections between western US extreme precipitation and remote forcing
Katherine J Evans1, Tianyu Jiang1 and Yi Deng2, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Georgia Institute ofTechnology, Atlanta, GA, United States
4:15 PM
GC34B-02
 
Relationship Among High Rainfall Rates, Atmospheric Moisture, and Temperature Based on High-Resolution Radar-Based Precipitation Estimates
Scott E Stevens1, Brian R Nelson2, Kenneth Kunkel1, Olivier P Prat1 and Thomas Richard Karl2, (1)Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS), North Carolina State University, and NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), Asheville, NC, United States, (2)NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), Asheville, NC, United States
4:30 PM
GC34B-03
 
Effects of Climate Change on Flood Frequency in the Pacific Northwest
Diana R Gergel1, Matt R Stumbaugh1, SE-Yeun Lee1, Bart Nijssen1 and Dennis P Lettenmaier1,2, (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
4:45 PM
GC34B-04
 
Critical Watersheds: Climate Change, Tipping Points, and Energy-Water Impacts
Richard Stephen Middleton1, Michael Brown1, Ethan Coon2, Rodman Linn1, Nathan G McDowell1, Scott L Painter1 and Chonggang Xu1, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States
5:00 PM
GC34B-05
 
Ecological Response to Extreme Flow Events in Streams and Rivers: Implications of Climate Change for Aquatic Biodiversity
Charles P Hawkins1, Jacob J Vander Laan1, Sulochan Dhungel2 and David G Tarboton2, (1)Utah State University, Department of Watershed Sciences, Logan, UT, United States, (2)Utah State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Logan, UT, United States
5:15 PM
GC34B-06
 
Role of storms and forest practices in sedimentation of an Oregon Coast Range lake
Kristin Richardson, Jeff A Hatten, Robert A Wheatcroft and Francisco J. Guerrero, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
5:30 PM
GC34B-07
 
Projection of Climate Change Impacts on Watershed Storage and Hydropower Generation
Shih-Chieh Kao, Bibi S Naz, Sudershan Gangrade, Moetasim Ashfaq, Rui Mei and Deeksha Rastogi, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
5:45 PM
GC34B-08
 
Impacts of drought on the water and energy systems
Lai-Yung Leung1, Maoyi Huang2, Hong-Yi Li3, Nathalie Voisin4, Mohamad Issa Hejazi5, Pralit Patel5, Yuyu Zhou6 and James Dirks1, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Pacific NW Nat'l Lab-Atmos Sci, Richland, WA, United States, (3)Pac NW National Lab, Richland, WA, United States, (4)PNNL, Seattle, WA, United States, (5)Joint Global Change Research Institute at the University of Maryland, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, MD, United States, (6)Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States
 
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