H11O:
Hydroclimatic Extremes: Drought I

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Session ID#: 34480

Session Description:
Drought is among the most costly natural hazards in the U.S. and around the world, and its recovery (e.g. in California in 2016/17) can be both disruptive and complex. Understanding the hydroclimatic causes, frequency and severity of drought development and recovery, and producing reliable predictions of these are critically important for impact assessments, disaster mitigation, and future projection. This session invites contributions from all aspects of monitoring, diagnostics, prediction, and projection of drought, including (1) understanding the physical mechanism and manifestation of drought occurrence, and propagation and termination of events, (2) estimation of frequency, spatial patterns, and intra-seasonal to inter-annual variability, (3) probabilistic and deterministic modeling and forecasting, (4) predictability of dynamic models and statistical methods in detection, (5) impacts of climate, landscape, and demand projections on the severity and frequency of future episodes, (6) indicators and assessment frameworks, and (7) diagnosis and attribution of events.
Primary Convener:  Lifeng Luo, Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States
Conveners:  Simon Parry, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, United Kingdom; Loughborough University, Department of Geography, Loughborough, United Kingdom, Justin T. Maxwell, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States and Hamid Moradkhani, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States
Chairs:  Justin T. Maxwell, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States, Hamid Moradkhani, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States, Lifeng Luo, Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States and Simon Parry, Loughborough University, Department of Geography, Loughborough, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison:  Justin T. Maxwell, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

1812 Drought [HYDROLOGY]
1817 Extreme events [HYDROLOGY]
1840 Hydrometeorology [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A new precipitation and meteorological drought climatology based on weather patterns (217471)
Doug Richardson, Newcastle University, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom, Hayley J Fowler, Newcastle University, School of Engineering, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom, Chris G Kilsby, Newcastle University, School of Engineering, Newcastle, United Kingdom and Rob Neal, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom
A Global Drought and Flood Catalogue for the past 100 years (Invited) (215856)
Justin Sheffield1, Xiaogang He1,2, Liqing Peng3, Ming Pan4, Colby K Fisher5 and Eric F Wood3, (1)Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)National University of Singapore, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Singapore, Singapore, (3)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States, (5)Princeton Climate Analytics, Princeton, United States
High-resolution multimodel projections of soil moisture drought in Europe under 1.5, 2 and 3 degree global warming (251341)
Luis Samaniego1, Rohini Kumar1, Matthias Zink2, Ming Pan3, Niko Wanders4, Andreas Marx1, Justin Sheffield5, Eric F Wood6 and Stephan Thober1, (1)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Computational Hydrosystems, Leipzig, Germany, (2)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany, (3)Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States, (4)Utrecht University, Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands, (5)University of Southampton, Geography and Environment, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, (6)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
Is climate change intensifying the drying-trend in the Caribbean? (227080)
Dimitris A. Herrera, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States, Toby Ault, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, John Fasullo, NCAR, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, United States and Carlos M. Carrillo, Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States
Evapotranspiration response to multi-year dry periods in the semi-arid western United States (237774)
Joseph P. Rungee II and Roger C Bales, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States
A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR CHARACTERISING SIMULATED DROUGHTS FOR FUTURE CLIMATES (293803)
Ashish Sharma, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Mohammad Rashid, UNSW, Sydney, Australia and Fiona Johnson, University of New South Wales, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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