Chairs: Allison Leidner1, Lucia Tsaoussi1 and Melissa A Kenney2, (1)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States(2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Primary Conveners: Paul Raymond Houser, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States
Co-conveners: Melissa A Kenney, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Allison K Leidner, Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Lucia Tsaoussi, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Paul Raymond Houser, George Mason University, Geography and Geoinformation Science, Fairfax, VA, United States
Using Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) As a Framework for Coordination Between Research and Monitoring Networks: A Case Study with Phenology
Katherine D. Jones1, Jesslyn F Brown2, Sarah Elmendorf1, Carolyn Enquist3, Alyssa Rosemartin3, Andrea Thorpe1, Brian Wee1 and Jake F Weltzin3, (1)NEON Inc., Boulder, CO, United States, (2)USGS/EROS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, (3)USA National Phenology Network, Tucson, AZ, United States
NCA-LDAS: An Integrated Terrestrial Water Analysis System for Development, Evaluation, and Dissemination of Climate Indicators
Michael F Jasinski1, Kristi R Arsenault2, Hiroko K Beaudoing1,2, John D Bolten3, Jordan Borak3,4, Sujay Kumar2,3, Christa D Peters-Lidard3, Bailing Li3,4, Yuqiong Liu5, David M Mocko2,3 and Matthew Rodell6, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)SAIC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (5)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (6)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Developing a Pilot Indicator System for U.S. Climate Changes, Impacts, Vulnerabilities, and Responses
Melissa A Kenney1, Anthony Janetos2, Derek Shane Arndt3, Richard Vincent Pouyat4, Rebecca Aicher5, Ainsley Lloyd1, Omar Malik1, Julian J Reyes6 and Sarah M Anderson7, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Boston University, The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston, MA, United States, (3)NOAA Asheville, Asheville, NC, United States, (4)USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States, (5)Environmental Protection Agency Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, (6)Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States, (7)Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
Development of a Water Clarity Index for the Southeastern U.S. As a Climate Indicator
Scott C Sheridan1, Chuanmin Hu2, Cameron C Lee1, Brian Barnes2, Doug Pirhalla3, Varis Ransibrahmanakul3 and Karsten A Shein4, (1)Kent State University Kent Campus, Kent, OH, United States, (2)University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, (3)National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (4)NOAA NCDC, Asheville, NC, United States
Land Cover Indicators for U.S. National Climate Assessments
Saurabh Channan1, Allison M Thomson2, Kathrine M Collins1, Joseph O Sexton1, Paul Torrens3 and William R Emanuel2, (1)Global Land Cover Facility, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
National Climate Assessment - Land Data Assimilation System (NCA-LDAS) Data at NASA GES DISC
Hualan Rui1, William L Teng1, Bruce Vollmer2, Michael F Jasinski2, David M Mocko3 and Steven J Kempler2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (ADNET Systems), Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)SAIC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Evaluating the Large-Scale Environment of Extreme Events Using Reanalyses
Michael G Bosilovich1, Siegfried D Schubert2, Randal D Koster1, Arlindo M da Silva Jr.3 and Andrew Eichmann3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Assessing Significance of Global Climate Change in Local Climate Time Series
Marina M Livezey1, Andrea Bair2, Robert Livezey3, Annette Hollingshead1, Fiona M.C. Horsfall1 and Jenna C Meyers1, (1)NOAA Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, (2)National Weather Service Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (3)retired, Bethesda, MD, United States
LNOx Estimates Directly from LIS Data
William John Koshak, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, Brian Vant-hull, CUNY City College, New York, NY, United States and Eugene McCaul, Universities Space Research Association, Huntsville, AL, United States
The Drivers of Climate Change -- Tracking Global Greenhouse Gas Trends and their Warming Influence
James H Butler1, Pieter P Tans1, Stephen A Montzka1, Edward J Dlugokencky1, Brad David Hall1, Kenneth A Masarie1, James W Elkins1, Geoffrey S Dutton2 and Benjamin R Miller2, (1)NOAA/ESRL Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Long-term dust climatology in the western United States
Pius Lee1, Daniel Tong1,2, Hang Lei3 and Julian X L Wang1, (1)NOAA College Park, NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction, College Park, MD, United States, (2)George Mason Univeristy, Center for spatial Information Science and Systems, Fairfax, VA, United States, (3)IMSG, Environmental Modeling Center, NCEP, College Park, MD, United States
Integrated Land Surface Water State Indicators for Climate Assessment
Brian Thomas Lamb1, Kyle C McDonald2, Nicholas Steiner3, Marzieh Azarderakhsh4 and Ronny Schroeder1, (1)CUNY City College, New York, NY, United States, (2)CCNY-Earth & Atmos Sciences, New York, NY, United States, (3)CUNY City College, Earth and Atmospheric Science, New York, NY, United States, (4)CCNY, New York, NY, United States
