GC34B:
Linking Downscaled Climate Variables to Extreme Events, Land Surface Hydrology, Ecosystems, Ecosystem Services, and Human Health III


Session ID#: 10347

Session Description:
Downscaled climate variables are an essential tool for assessing the impacts of climate change on the local and regional level. They provide regional stakeholders and policy makers with robust information for developing future mitigation and adaptation strategies. The goal of this session is to bring together the climate community that produce downscaled products and the users of these datasets. In particular we are interested in, (1) studies of downscaled projections of regional climatology and extreme events; (2) discussion of the associated difficulties and uncertainties with different downscaling approaches as it applies to different geographical regions; (3) land surface hydrology, ecosystem, ecosystem services and human health applications that use downscaled climate variables as inputs, and (4) assessment of avenues for improving the coupling between regional climate models and application models.
Primary Convener:  Muge Komurcu, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, United States
Conveners:  Srinath Krishnan, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, Matthew Huber, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States and Mark Pagani, Yale University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, New Haven, CT, United States
Chairs:  Muge Komurcu, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, United States and Srinath Krishnan, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Srinath Krishnan, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • H - Hydrology
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

0466 Modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Evaluation of Downscaled CMIP5 Model Skill in Simulating Daily Maximum Temperature Over the Southeastern United States (75344)
David Keellings, University of Florida, Department of Geography, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
Regional Climate Change Over Southwest Asia (Invited) (79983)
Elfatih A B Eltahir, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States and Jeremy S Pal, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Simulations of Future Heat stress in the Northeast in a Convection Resolving Model (86211)
Matthew Huber1, Jonathan R Buzan1, Muge Komurcu2, Srinath Krishnan3 and Emma McCabe1, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, United States, (3)Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
Joint Hazard Assessment for Urban Decision-Makers in the Northeastern United States (Invited) (82548)
Radley M Horton, Columbia University/NASA GISS, New York, NY, United States, Christopher M Little, Verisk Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, United States and Ethan Coffel, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States
Changes in Black-legged Tick Population in New England with Future Climate Change (83674)
Srinath Krishnan, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States and Matthew Huber, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
Climate-driven PM2.5 and ozone change and their associated health exposure over continental US in 2050s (64670)
Joshua S Fu, University of Tennessee, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Knoxville, United States, Jian Sun, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States and Yang Gao, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States
An Analysis of the Climate Change Mitigation Potential through Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration in a Corn Belt Watershed (58523)
Mukesh Dev Bhattarai1, Silvia Secchi1 and Justin T Schoof2, (1)Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL, United States, (2)Southern Illinois University, School of Earth Systems and Sustainability, Carbondale, IL, United States
Coupled terrestrial and aquatic regional responses to land use change and climate variability in a temperate New England watershed (78951)
Wilfred M Wollheim1, Nihar R Samal2, Zaixing Zhou2, Shan Zuidema2, Robert James Stewart2 and Madeleine Mineau3, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States

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