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
Modeling of Effects of Climate and Land Cover Change on Thermal Loading to Puget Sound
Qian Cao1, Ning Sun2, John R Yearsley2, Bart Nijssen2 and Dennis P Lettenmaier3, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)University of California, Los Angeles (effective Nov., 2014), Dept. of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Analysis of Coastal Sediment Plume Dynamics in Puerto Rico using MODIS/Terra 250-m Imagery
Daniel Brooks Otis1, Frank E Muller-Karger1, Pablo Mendez-Lazaro2, Matthew McCarthy1 and F. Robert Chen1, (1)University of South Florida St. Petersburg, IMaRS, St Petersburg, FL, United States, (2)University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus, Environmental Health Department, Cidra, PR, United States
Modeling the Impacts of Historic Climate Change and Extreme Droughts on Water Yield and Productivity of National Forests over the Conterminous U.S
Shanlei Sun1, Ge Sun2, Peter V Caldwell3, Steve G. McNulty2 and Yang Zhang1, (1)North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States, (2)USDA Forest Svc, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, Raleigh, NC, United States, (3)Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, Otto, NC, United States
High ground-level ozone events over the Eastern United States: meteorology and source attribution
Melissa Seto1, Olivia Clifton2, Jean Guo1, Lee T Murray2,3, Lukas C Valin2 and Arlene M Fiore2, (1)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States
Precipitation variability and the sugarcane climate demand in Brazil
Vania R. Pereira1, Ana Maria H de Avila1, Gabriel Blain2 and Jurandir Zullo Jr.3, (1)UNICAMP State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, (2)Instituto Agronomico de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, (3)UNICAMP State University of Campinas, Centre for Meteorological and Climatological Researches in Agriculture - CEPAGRI, Campinas, Brazil
Projecting Policy-Relevant Metrics to Characterize Changing Ozone Extremes over the US: Variations by Region, Season and Scenario
Harald E Rieder1,2, Arlene M Fiore1,3, Gustavo J P Correa1, Olivia Clifton1,3, Larry Wayne Horowitz4 and Vaishali Naik5, (1)Columbia University of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)University of Graz, Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change and IGAM/Institute of Physics, Graz, Austria, (3)Columbia University of New York, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palisades, NY, United States, (4)Princeton Univ-NOAA GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States, (5)UCAR/GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States
High Temperature Extremes – Will They Transform Structure of Avian Assemblages in the Desert Southwest?
Denis Mutiibwa1, Thomas P Albright1, Blair O Wolf2, Andrew E Mckechnie3, Alexander R Gerson2, William A Talbot2, Giancarlo Sadoti1, Jacqueline O'Neill2 and Eric Smith2, (1)University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (2)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Biology, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)University of Pretoria, Zoology and Entomology, Pretoria, South Africa
Links between Plant Invasion, Anthropogenic Nitrogen Enrichment, and Wildfires: A Systematic Review
Emmi Felker-Quinn1,2, Meredith Gooding Lassiter2, April Maxwell1,2, Rachel Housego1,2 and Brianna Young3, (1)Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, National Center for Environmental Assessment, Office of Research Development, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, (3)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Environmental Science and Engineering, Chapel Hill, NC, United States