Chairs: Siegfried D Schubert, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Juergen Vogt, European Commission, Ispra, Italy
Primary Conveners: Yongkang Xue, Univ California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Co-conveners: Randal D Koster, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Siegfried D Schubert, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Juergen Vogt, European Commission, Ispra, Italy
OSPA Liaisons: Bart Nijssen, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States
An Updated Decision Support Interface: A Tool for Remote Monitoring of Crop Growing Conditions
Gregory J Husak1, Michael E Budde2, James Rowland2, James P Verdin3, Chris C Funk1,4 and Martin F Landsfeld1, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)U.S. Geological Survey, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, (3)USGS/EROS, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)USGS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States
Modeling Drought Impact Occurrence Based on Climatological Drought Indices for Europe
James Howard Stagge1, Irene Kohn2, Lena M Tallaksen1 and Kerstin Stahl3, (1)University of Oslo, Department of Geoscience, Oslo, Norway, (2)Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Department of Hydrology, Freiberg, Germany, (3)Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Freiberg, Germany
Global Drought Information System: Influence of Differences in Land Surface Model Dynamics on Drought Monitoring
Bart Nijssen, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Shraddhanand Shukla, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Kingtse C Mo, NOAA Science Center, College Park, MD, United States and Dennis P Lettenmaier, University of California, Los Angeles (effective Nov., 2014), Dept. of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Potential of Using Microwave Emission in Global Analysis of Land Cover and Drought State
Yanna Chen, New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY, United States, Megha Bhambri, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, Hamidreza Norouzi, New York City College of Technology, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY, United States and Amir AghaKouchak, University of California, Irvine, CA, United States