GC53A:
Climate and Environmental Data, Information, and Knowledge for Societal Decision Making in the U.S. and International/SERVIR Regions II Posters

Friday, 19 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Ashutosh S Limaye, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, Eric Ross Anderson, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, William J Gutowski Jr, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States and Barbara Brown, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Conveners:  Lawrence Buja, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-conveners:  Ashutosh S Limaye, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, William J Gutowski Jr, Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA, United States and Barbara Brown, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Ashutosh S Limaye, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

0484
 
Projected Future Climate Analogues and Climate “Velocities” in North America
Sarah L Shafer, US Geological Survey, Corvallis, OR, United States and Patrick J Bartlein, University of Oregon, Geography, Eugene, OR, United States
0485
 
Paleo-perspectives on the “velocity” and magnitude of future climate changes
Patrick J Bartlein, University of Oregon, Geography, Eugene, OR, United States and Sarah L Shafer, US Geological Survey, Corvallis, OR, United States
0486
 
Climate Indicators of Pace and Perception of Projected Changes Using CMIP5 Simulations
Yann Chavaillaz, Sylvie Joussaume, Pascale Braconnot and Robert Vautard, LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France
0487
 
Climate Monitoring Network on Maunakea - Master Station at Summit and Lower Elevation Satellite Stations
Marie Maile McKenzie, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Geography, Honolulu, HI, United States, Fritz Klasner, Office of Maunakea Management, Hilo, HI, United States, Thomas W Giambelluca, Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States and Steven Businger, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
0488
 
Interpreting Climate Model Projections of Extreme Weather Events for Decision Makers
Stephen J Vavrus, Univ Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States and Michael Notaro, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
0489
 
A simple energy budget of the Earth for informing climate discussions
James C Wilson, Univ Denver, Denver, CO, United States and Daniel M Murphy, NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States
0490
 
Joint Bias Correction of Multiple Climate Model Outputs for Impacts
Seth A McGinnis, Stephan R Sain and Linda O Mearns, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
0491
 
Time of Emergence of Climate Extremes in the Pacific Northwest
Cary Lynch, Eric P Salathe Jr, Amy K Snover and Rita Yu, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States
0492
 
Temporal and Spatial Variability in ENSO Teleconnections to Daily Weather Donditions in the Pacific Northwest
Stephanie A McAfee, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Erika K Wise, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Adam Z Csank, Nipissing University, North Bay, ON, Canada
0493
 
Probabilistic Climate Scenario Information for Risk Assessment
Koji Dairaku, NIED National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Tsukuba, Japan, Genta Ueno, The Inst of Statistical Math, Tachikawa, Japan and Izuru Takayabu, Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan
0494
 
Reducing Climate Information Complexity through the Production of a Standard Scenarios Ensemble for Vulnerability, Impact and Adaptation Applications
Blaise Gauvin St-Denis1, Travis Logan1, Marco Braun1, David Gampe2 and Diane Chaumont1, (1)Ouranos, Montreal, QC, Canada, (2)Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Geography, Munich, Germany
0495
 
Open climate data and services to serve landscape modeling and decision making at the USGS: Past, present and future.
David L Blodgett, USGS Office of Water Information, Center for Integrated Data Analytics, Middleton, WI, United States, Nate Booth, USGS, Baltimore, MD, United States and Jordan I Walker, USGS Center for Integrated Data Analytics, Madison, WI, United States
0496
 
The HumanIndexMod and New Calculations Demonstrating Heat Stress Effects All Aspects of Human Life Through Industry, Agriculture, and Daily Life.
Jonathan R Buzan and Matthew Huber, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
0497
 
Hydropower licensing and evolving climate: climate knowledge to support risk assessment for long-term infrastructure decisions
Andrea J Ray1, Susan Walker2, Sarah Fleisher Trainor3 and Jessica E Cherry3, (1)NOAA/Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska Region, Juneau, AK, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
0498
 
Identifying the simplest predictive model of annual runoff ratio for quantifying the hydrologic impact of climate change in a Great Lakes river basin
Rebecca Meissner and Stephen B Shaw, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, United States
0499
 
Integrated Modeling and Participatory Scenario Planning for Climate Adaptation: the Maui Groundwater Project
Victoria W Keener, Melissa Finucane and Laura Brewington, East-West Center, Honolulu, HI, United States
0500
 
Creating Infrastructure Resilience from Information Chaos: The City and County of San Francisco’s Approach to Sea Level Rise Science and Adaptation Planning
David H Behar, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, CA, United States, W Tad Pfeffer, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Kris May, AECOM, Oakland, CA, United States, Philip Mote, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States and Daniel R Cayan, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
0501
 
The Effects of Climate Model Similarity on Local, Risk-Based Adaptation Planning
Scott Steinschneider, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Northampton, MA, United States and Casey M Brown, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States
0502
 
Maintaining a clear line of sight through regional climate change analysis: the importance of distinguishing knowledge and data
Penny Whetton, CSIRO, Aspendale, Australia
0503
 
Climate Risk Management and Decision Support Tools for the Agriculture Sector in Lao PDR, Bangladesh, and Indonesia
Erica C Allis, Arthur M Greene and Remi Cousin, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
0504
 
Moving Toward a Globally Harmonized Volcanic Ash Forecast System: Anchorage and Tokyo VAAC Best Practices on Collaboration
Jeffrey M Osiensky, National Weather Service Alaska Region, Environmental and Scientific Services Division, Anchorage, AK, United States, Donald Moore, Alaska Aviation Weather Unit, Anchorage, AK, United States and Yohko Igarashi, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo VAAC, Tokyo, Japan
0505
 
Operationalizing land cover/land use data products to support decision making in the forestry sector of Hindu Kush Himalaya region
Faisal M. Qamer1, Hammad Gilani1, Kabir Uddin1, Sudip Pradhan1, MSR Murthy1 and Birendra Bajracharya2, (1)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal, (2)ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal
0506
 
Monitoring Lake Victoria Water Quality from Space: Opportunities for Strengthening Trans-boundary Information Sharing for Effective Resource Management
Robinson M Mugo1, Tesfaye Korme1, Hussein Farah1, James Wanjohi1, Daniel Irwin2, Africa Flores3,4, Ashutosh S Limaye2 and Gwen Artis2, (1)Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development, Nairobi, Kenya, (2)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)Regional Visualization and Monitoring System (SERVIR), Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
0507
 
Building capacity for national carbon measurements for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation
Scott J Goetz1, Nadine Laporte2, Ned Horning3, Johanne Pelletier1, Patrick Jantz1 and Peter Ndunda4, (1)Woods Hole Research Ctr, Falmouth, MA, United States, (2)WHRC, Falmouth, MA, United States, (3)American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, United States, (4)Clinton Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya
0508
 
Land Cover Mapping for the Development of Green House Gas (GHG) Inventories in the Eastern and Southern Africa Region
Jaffer Ababu Wakhayanga1, Phoebe Oduor1, Tesfaye Korme1, Hussein Farah1, Ashutosh S Limaye2, Daniel Irwin3 and Gwen Artis2, (1)Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development, Nairobi, Kenya, (2)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)NASA Marshall Space Flght Ctr, Huntsville, AL, United States
0509
 
Monitoring water quality in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala using Earth Observations
Africa Ixmucane Flores Cordova1, Sundar Anand Christopher1, Robert Griffin1, Ashutosh S Limaye2 and Daniel Irwin3, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)NASA Marshall Space Flght Ctr, Huntsville, AL, United States
0510
 
A multi-step approach to improving NASA Earth Science data access and use for decision support through online and hands-on training
Ana I Prados1, Pawan Gupta2, Amita V Mehta1, Cindy Schmidt3, Brock Blevins1, Annelise Carleton-Hug4 and David Barbato1, (1)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)NASA/Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Bay Area Environmental Research Institute Moffett Field, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (4)Trillium Associates, none, Ohiopyle, PA, United States
0511
 
Connecting Science and Stakeholders for Improved Drought and Crop Productivity Assessments in East Africa: Early Lessons
Stephanie L Granger1, Denis Macharia2, Konstantinos Andreadis1 and Narendra N Das3, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Regional Center for Mapping Resources for Development, Nairobi, Kenya, (3)Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States
0512
 
Developing and Transitioning Numerical Air Quality Models to Improve Air Quality and Public Health Decision-Making in El Salvador and Costa Rica As Part of the Servir Applied Sciences Team
Amy Thomas1, Amy K Huff2, Stephen G Gomori1 and Natasha Sadoff1, (1)Battelle Columbus, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)Pennsylvania State Univ, University Park, PA, United States
0513
 
Space to Village: Connecting Science and Policy for Better Climate Decision-Making in the Developing World
Carmen Elizabeth Tedesco1, Noemi Danao-Schroeder1 and Robinson M Mugo2, (1)Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI), Bethesda, MD, United States, (2)Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development, Nairobi, Kenya
0514
 
A Web Architecture to Geographically Interrogate CHIRPS Rainfall and eMODIS NDVI for Landuse Change
Jason Eric Burks and Ashutosh S Limaye, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
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