NH41D
Monitoring, Prediction, and Hazard Mitigation of Hydroclimatic Extreme Events I

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 08:00-10:00
309 (Moscone South)
Primary Conveners:  Ali Mehran, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Conveners:  Daniel Benjamin Wright, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Linyin Cheng, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States and Guy Schumann, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Chairs:  Viviana Maggioni, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States and Ali Mehran, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Guy Schumann, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
08:00
Remote Sensing of Drought: Progress and Opportunities for Improving Drought Monitoring (Invited) (58334)
Amir AghaKouchak, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
08:15
Drought monitoring in the Northwestern United States (Invited) (60537)
Bart Nijssen, University of Washington, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States
08:30
Flash Droughts over the United States (60787)
Kingtse C Mo, NOAA Science Center, College Park, MD, United States and Dennis P Lettenmaier, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States
08:45
Monitoring and forecasting the 2009-2010 severe drought in Southwest China (72509)
Xuejun Zhang and Qiuhong Tang, IGSNRR Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, China
09:00
The Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Stations (CHIRPS) v2.0 Dataset: 35 year Quasi-Global Precipitation Estimates for Drought Monitoring (64801)
Pete Peterson1, Chris C Funk1, Martin F Landsfeld2, Diego H Pedreros3, Shraddhanand Shukla2, Gregory J Husak1, Laura Harrison1 and James P Verdin4, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (3)USGS Michigan Water Science Center, Lansing, MI, United States, (4)USGS/EROS, Boulder, CO, United States
09:15
Tracking Flooding, Drought, Fire and other Natural Hazards with GRACE (Invited) (69639)
James S Famiglietti, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States; University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
09:30
The Effect of DEM Quality on Sea Level Rise Exposure Analysis (83348)
Scott Andrew Kulp and Ben Strauss, Climate Central, Princeton, NJ, United States
09:45
A global vegetation corrected SRTM DEM for use in hazard modelling (61882)
Paul D Bates, University of Bristol, School of Geography, Bristol, United Kingdom, Fiachra O'Loughlin, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom, Jeffrey C Neal, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Michael T Durand, Ohio St Univ-Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States, Douglas E Alsdorf, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States and Rodrigo C. D. Paiva, Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, OH, United States
 
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