H13Q:
Hydroclimatic Extremes: Drought III

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Session ID#: 34492

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:  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, Simon Parry, Loughborough University, Department of Geography, Loughborough, United Kingdom and Jonghun Kam, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
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:

Introduction and Application of non-stationary Standardized Precipitation Index Considering Probability Distribution Function and Return Period (238249)
Junehyeong Park1, Yoon-Jin Lim1, Jang-Hyun Sung2 and Hyun-Suk Kang3, (1)National Institute of Meteorological Sciences, Earth System Research Division, Seogwipo, South Korea, (2)Han River Flood Control Office, Seoul, South Korea, (3)Korea Meteorological Administration, Seoul, South Korea
Utilizing Objective Drought Thresholds to Improve Drought Monitoring with the SPI (239879)
Zachary Thomas Leasor, Ohio State University Main Campus, Department of Geography, Columbus, United States and Steven M Quiring, Ohio State University Main Campus, Department of Geography, Columbus, OH, United States
Ecohydrological drought monitoring and prediction using a land data assimilation system (217157)
Yohei Sawada, MRI-JMA, Ibaraki, Japan and Toshio Koike, ICHARM International Centre for Water Hazard And Risk Management, Tsukuba, Japan
California Drought and the 2015-2016 El Niño (206551)
Benjamin Cash, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States
Changes in the Mechanisms behind Rapid Drought Cessation in the Southeastern U.S. (229390)
Justin T. Maxwell, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States, Paul A Knapp, University of North Carolina Greensboro, Geography, Greensboro, NC, United States, Jason T Ortegren, University of West Florida, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Pensacola, FL, United States, Darren L Ficklin, Indiana University, Department of Geography, Bloomington, IN, United States and Peter T. Soulé, Appalachian State University, Geography and Planning, Boone, NC, United States
Mining and drought in the tropical Andes: a case study of lake Poopó (234392)
Charles Zogheib, Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering, London, United Kingdom

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