Session 10A |
| | General Climate Studies: Regional Analysis |
| | Chair: Richard R. Heim, Jr., Scientific Services Division, National Climatic Data Center, NOAA, Asheville, NC
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| 10:30 AM | 10A.1 | Putting current North America drought conditions into a multi-century perspective. Part 1: constructing the paleo drought dataset 
Edward R. Cook, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY; and R. S. Vose, R. R. Heim, and J. H. Lawrimore |
| 10:45 AM | 10A.2 | Putting current North America drought conditions into a multi-century perspective. Part 2: Using the blended product in operational drought monitoring 
Richard Heim, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. S. Vose, J. Lawrimore, and E. R. Cook |
| 11:00 AM | 10A.3 | Contributions of Water Vapor and Temperature to the Interannual Variability of Precipitation: An Evaluation from North American Regional Reanalysis
Er Lu, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and E. Takle |
|  | 10A.4 | New climate dataset extends continuous U.S. weather records back over 100 years
Raymond T. Truesdell, Information Manufacturing Corporation, Asheville, NC |
| 11:15 AM | 10A.5 | Detection of trends in timing of low flows in Canadian stream flows
Eghbal Ehsanzadeh, Ottawa University, Ottawa, ON, Canada; and K. Adamowski |
| 11:30 AM | 10A.6 | Characteristics of ice cloud forcing due to ice clouds over the tropics
Gang Hong, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and P. Yang |