Primary Conveners: Shahrbanou Madadgar, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
Conveners: Li-Chuan Chen, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Lifeng Luo, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States and Hamid Moradkhani, Portland State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Portland, OR, United States
Chairs: Lifeng Luo, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States, Li-Chuan Chen, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Shahrbanou Madadgar, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States and Hamid Moradkhani, Portland State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Portland, OR, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Shahrbanou Madadgar, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
08:00
Causes of the 2011-15 California drought (Invited) (59716)
Richard Seager1, Martin P Hoerling2, Siegfried D Schubert3, Hailan Wang3, Bradfield Lyon4, Arun Kumar5, Jennifer Nakamura1 and Naomi Henderson1, (1)Lamont Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)NOAA Boulder, ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (5)NOAA/NCEP, Climate Prediction Center, College Park, MD, United States
08:15
California’s Epic 21st Century Drought - Where Are We at and Where Do We Go from Here? (66528)
Michael Anderson, California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, CA, United States, Michael D Dettinger, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, 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
08:30
Contribution of anthropogenic warming to California drought during 2012-2015 (74186)
Park Williams1, Richard Seager1, John T Abatzoglou2, Benjamin Cook1,3, Jason E Smerdon1 and Edward R Cook1, (1)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)University of Idaho, Department of Geography, Moscow, ID, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States
09:00
How Has Human-induced Climate Change Affected California Drought Risk? (70801)
Linyin Cheng1,2, Martin P Hoerling1, Amir Aghakouchak3, Ben Livneh2, Xiao-Wei Quan4 and Jon K. Eischeid2, (1)NOAA Boulder, ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States, (4)NOAA Boulder, ESRL/CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
