PA13B:
El Niño Impacts and Responses: Lessons from the 2015–2016 Event Posters

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Session ID#: 13831

Session Description:
El Niño events create winners and losers on a global scale. Impacts of the 2015/2016 El Niño event, one of the strongest on record, ranged from floods, algal blooms, drought, wildfires and disease outbreaks in many areas, while reducing drought conditions in others, such as the Western U.S. This session will solicit cross-disciplinary contributions on the development and evolution of the 2015/2016 El Niño impacts and responses, and the extent to which science-based policy and actions improved adaptive responses. Key themes to be addressed include:

  •  Assessment of drivers and impacts in regions affected by the 2015/2016 El Niño event
  • Advances in science-based early warning information systems, including those resulting from previous events, that led to proactive risk management
  • The benefits of ongoing climate change risk management efforts in managing El Niño impacts
  • Lessons from the 2015/2016 El Niño event for integrating research, risk assessment and adaptation across the weather-climate continuum
Primary Convener:  Roger S Pulwarty, NOAA, OAR/Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States
Conveners:  Walter Baethgen, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, Amir AghaKouchak, University of California Irvine - The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, Irvine, CA, United States and Upmanu Lall, Columbia University of New York, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States
Chairs:  Upmanu Lall, Columbia University of New York, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States and Roger S Pulwarty, NOAA, OAR/Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Amir AghaKouchak, University of California Irvine - The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering Department, Irvine, CA, United States
Index Terms:

3309 Climatology [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4352 Interaction between science and disaster management authorities [NATURAL HAZARDS]
6344 System operation and management [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A Tale of Two Cities: San Diego (USA) and Tijuana (Mexico) El Niño Readiness (146516)
Christina Stewart1, Alicia M Kinoshita2, Tracy Nishikawa3 and Fernando Briones-Gamboa3, (1)San Diego State University, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, San Diego, CA, United States, (2)San Diego State University, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, San Diego, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Consortium for Capacity Building (CCB), Boulder, CO, United States
The 2015-16 El Nino - Manifestation and US Impacts (Invited) (149776)
David J Farnham1, Upmanu Lall2, Laura Meschke3, Sugal Sutter3, Syed Sayeed3, Liz Orozco3, Saloni Jain3, Olivia Barry3, Raul Montano3, Timothy Lee Kirby3, Blanca Caraveo3, Kathryn Homa3 and America’s Water and the Effects of El Ni, (1)Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, NY, United States, (2)Columbia University of New York, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States, (3)Columbia University of New York, New York, NY, United States
"New Climate" Warmed, "New Atmospheric Circulation" and "Extreme" Meteorological Phenomena associated with El Niño 2015-2016 (161129)
Mohammed-Said Karrouk, Hassan II University of Casablanca FLSH Ben M’Sick, FLSH Ben M'Sick, Geography, Climatology, LCEAT, CEREC, Casablanca, Morocco
Early Warning of El Nino Impacts on Food Security (Invited) (177075)
James P Verdin1, Chris Hillbruner2, James Rowland3 and Michael E Budde3, (1)University of Maryland, Boulder, United States, (2)Chemonics International, Washington, DC, United States, (3)U.S. Geological Survey, Sioux Falls, United States
Iran's Seasonal Precipitation Analysis Associated with El-Niño Events: Historical Analysis and the 2015/2016 El-Niño (182186)
Husain Najafi1, Andrew William Robertson2, Angel Munoz3, ALi Reza Massah Bavani1 and Parviz Irannejad4, (1)University of Tehran, College of Aburaihan, Department of Water Resources Engineering, Tehran, Iran, (2)Center for Climate Systems Research @NASA GISS, New York, United States, (3)Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain, (4)University of Tehran, Institute of Geophysics, Department of Space Physics, Tehran, Iran
Comparing Vegetation Response in Southern, Central and Northern California during the 1997-1998 and 2015-2016 El Niño (197162)
Austin Clark Schneiderman, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, United States, David L Miller, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States and Dar A Roberts, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

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