H11P:
Hydroclimatic Extremes: Drought I
Session ID#: 10512
Session Description:
Drought is among the costliest natural hazards in the U.S. and around the world. Understanding drought’s hydroclimatic causes, frequency and severity, and producing reliable predictions are of critical importance for impact assessments, disaster mitigation, and future projection. This session invites contributions from all aspects of drought monitoring, diagnostics, prediction, and projection, including (1) understanding the physical mechanism and manifestation of drought events, (2) estimation of drought frequency, spatial patterns, and intra-seasonal to inter-annual variability, (3) probabilistic and deterministic modeling and forecasting, (4) predictability of dynamic models and statistical methods in drought detection, (5) impacts of climate, landscape, and demand projections on the severity and frequency of future droughts, (6) drought indicators and assessment frameworks, and (7) diagnosis and attribution of drought events.
Primary Convener: Shahrbanou Madadgar, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
Conveners: L. Gwen Chen, University of Maryland, College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, Lifeng Luo, Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, United States and Hamid Moradkhani, Portland State University, Portland, United States
Chairs: Lifeng Luo, Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, United States, L. Gwen Chen, University of Maryland, College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, Shahrbanou Madadgar, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States and Hamid Moradkhani, Portland State University, Portland, United States
OSPA Liaison: Shahrbanou Madadgar, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
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Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Richard Seager, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, Martin P Hoerling, NOAA Boulder, ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, Siegfried D Schubert, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Hailan Wang, SSAI, Hampton, VA, United States, Bradfield Lyon, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, Arun Kumar, NOAA/NCEP, Climate Prediction Center, College Park, MD, United States, Jennifer Nakamura, Lamont Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States and Naomi Henderson, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
Michael Anderson, California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, CA, United States, Michael D Dettinger, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), La Jolla, United States, Kelly T Redmond, Desert Research Institute Reno, Western Regional Climate Center, Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Reno, NV, United States and Daniel R Cayan, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Park Williams, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, United States, Richard Seager, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, John T Abatzoglou, University of Idaho, Department of Geography, Moscow, United States, Benjamin Cook, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States; NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, Jason E Smerdon, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States and Edward R Cook, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Tree-Ring Laboratory, Palisades, United States
Nikolaus H Buenning and Prof. Lowell D Stott, PhD, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Linyin Cheng, NOAA, ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States; NOAA Boulder, PSD, Boulder, CO, United States, Martin P Hoerling, NOAA Boulder, ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, Amir Aghakouchak, University of California Irvine, The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States, Ben Livneh, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Boulder, United States, Xiao-Wei Quan, NOAA Boulder, ESRL/CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States and Jon K. Eischeid, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Lifeng Luo, Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, United States, Deanna Apps, US Army Corps of Engineers - Detroit District, Office of Great Lakes Hydraulics and Hydrology, Detroit, MI, United States and Samuel E Arcand, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States
Mahesh Rao, Zachary Silber-coats and Fox Lawrence, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, United States
Ben S Bray and Gary Palhegyi, East Bay Municipal Utility District, Oakland, CA, United States
