Session 8 |
| Drought Assessment and Prediction |
| Organizer: Glen Conner, Western Kentucky Univ., Bowling Green, KY
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| 8:00 AM | 8.1 | Measured Soil Moisture during the 1999–2000 Drought in Illinois James R. Angel, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and R. W. Scott |
| 8:15 AM | 8.2 | Monitoring droughts with improved drought index resolution Michael J. Hayes, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and M. D. Svoboda, W. J. Waltman, S. Goddard, and K. G. Hubbard |
| 8:30 AM | 8.3 | The quality assurance and dissemination of soil moisture data from the Oklahoma Mesonet Gary D. McManus, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK |
| 8:45 AM | 8.4 | A Soil Moisture Analysis of the Drought Conditions using the Oklahoma Mesonet Bradley G. Illston, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara |
| 9:00 AM | 8.5 | The value of real-time mesoscale observations to early recognition and rapid response to short-term drought Derek S. Arndt, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and H. L. Johnson |
| 9:15 AM | 8.6 | Three years and counting: What’s new with the Drought Monitor? Mark D. Svoboda, National Drought Mitigation Center/Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and M. J. Hayes and R. J. Tinker |
| 9:30 AM | 8.7 | Exploring moisture indices for characterizing drought in Vermont Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT |
| 9:45 AM | 8.8 | Trends in North Carolina evapotranspiration and links with water availability Peter J. Robinson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:30 AM | 8.9 | Drought and Impact Disconnect: The Midwest Drought of 1999-2000 Michael A. Palecki, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and S. D. Hilberg |
| 10:45 AM | 8.10 | Drought Risk in Agriculture Elwynn Taylor, Iowa State University, Ames, IA |
| 11:00 AM | 8.11 | European drought climatology and prediction using the standardised precipitation index Benjamin Lloyd-Hughes, University College London, Dorking, United Kingdom; and M. A. Saunders |
| 11:15 AM | 8.12 | Climate Stability in the Great Plains John Harrington Jr., Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS; and M. J. Wood |
| 11:30 AM | 8.13 | A climatological assessment of major 20th century drought in southern Ontario, Canada Joan M. Klaassen, MSC, Downsview, ON, Canada |
| 11:45 AM | 8.14 | Associations between the Palmer Drought Index and various atmospheric and oceanic indices Douglas Le Comte, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD |