H21O
Hydroclimatic Extremes: Drought IV

Tuesday, 15 December 2015: 08:00-10:00
3011 (Moscone West)
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, Hamid Moradkhani, Portland State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Portland, OR, United States, Li-Chuan Chen, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States and Shahrbanou Madadgar, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Lifeng Luo, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States
08:00
Recent potentially predictable droughts associated with the west Pacific warming mode and ENSO (Invited) (60502)
Chris C Funk1,2, Andrew Hoell3, Shraddhanand Shukla4, Colin P Kelley5, Laura Harrison2 and Climate Hazards Group, (1)USGS, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (3)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (5)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
08:15
Competitive influences on droughts: present and future (76923)
Celine Bonfils, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
08:30
A Hybrid Framework for Improving NMME Precipitation Forecasts (73705)
Shahrbanou Madadgar1, Linyin Cheng1, Andrew W Wood2, Amir Aghakouchak3 and Mark Svoboda4, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States, (4)Univ of NE/Lincoln-Nat'l Rsrcs, Lincoln, NE, United States
08:45
Drought Characterisation and the Application of Indices in UK Water Resource Management (80235)
Amy Teresa Lennard, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69, United Kingdom and Neil Macdonald, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
09:00
Development of an Objective High Spatial Resolution Soil Moisture Index (80091)
Bradley Zavodsky, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
09:15
09:30
Development of a Demand Sensitive Drought Index and its Application for Agriculture over the Conterminous United States. (60146)
Elius Etienne, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, Naresh Devineni, CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, Reza Khanbilvardi, CUNY-Civil Engineering T-107, New York, NY, United States and Upmanu Lall, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
09:45
Critical Aspects of the Coastal Drought Index: Length of Salinity Data Record and Ecological Response Data (64337)
Paul Anthony Conrads, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
 
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