H34D:
Hydrology eLightning Session: Tropical Drought, Floodplains, and Ecological Sustainability
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Session ID#: 27096
Session Description:
This session seeks to advance our understanding of ecological drought, flood forecasting, and freshwater, ecosystem and agricultural sustainability through the quantification of changes and uncertainties that constrain water supply assessments as well as flood and drought risk management, particularly in the tropics.
Submissions are invited on topics related to: (i) quantifying current and future changes to drought regimes and the ecological impacts of changing drought exposure, (ii) development of better water, ecosystem, and agricultural management strategies to promote ecosystem services and improve water quality (especially during drought), (iii) quantifying and reducing uncertainty in regional water supply assessments under climate scenarios, land use change and population growth, (iv) resolving complex human-made and natural features in flood forecasting models, with particular attention to the representation of floodplain boundaries for variable flow conditions, and (v) new approaches, techniques, and advancements for improving regional scale sustainability assessments and numerical modeling.
Primary Convener: Abby G Frazier, PhD, East-West Center, Honolulu, HI, United States
Conveners: Chandana Gangodagamage, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Water Center (NWC), Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Division, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, Tushar Sinha, Texas A & M University Kingsville, Kingsville, TX, United States and Thomas W Giambelluca, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Department of Geography and Environment, Honolulu, United States
Chairs: Srinivasulu Ale, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Vernon, TX, United States, Thomas W Giambelluca, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Hawaiʻi Sea Grant, Honolulu, United States and Chandana Gangodagamage, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
OSPA Liaison: Tushar Sinha, Texas A & M University Kingsville, Kingsville, TX, United States
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Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Tomo'omi Kumagai1,2, Taro Nakai1 and Hisashi Sato3, (1)Nagoya University, Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya, Japan, (2)The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Tokyo, Japan, (3)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
Abby G Frazier, PhD, East-West Center, Honolulu, HI, United States, Matthew Lucas, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Geography and Environment, Honolulu, HI, United States, Christian P Giardina, USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States, Thomas W Giambelluca, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Hawaiʻi Sea Grant, Honolulu, United States, Clay Trauernicht, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Natural Resources and Environmental Management, Honolulu, HI, United States and Tomoaki Miura, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, United States
Ammara Talib, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, WI, United States and Ankur R Desai, University of Wisconsin Madison, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, WI, United States
