Session 2 |
| | Climate Trends and Variability |
| | Organizers: Greg Johnson, USDA/NRCS, National Water and Climate Center, Portland, OR; Andrew C. Comrie, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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| 1:30 PM | 2.1 | Characteristics of major snowstorms in the United States, 1949-2000
Stanley Changnon, Changnon Climatologist, Mahomet, IL; and D. Changnon |
| 1:45 PM | 2.2 | Climate variability and change in Alaska
Martha Shulski, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and G. Wendler |
| 2:00 PM | 2.3 | Evaluating long-term trends in mountain snow measurements using a hydrologic model
Philip W. Mote, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and A. F. Hamlet |
| 2:15 PM | 2.4 | Sea–surface temperature and tropical cyclones: Breaking the paradigm 
Patrick J. Michaels, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA and Cato Institute, Washington, DC; and P. C. Knappenberger and R. E. Davis |
| 2:30 PM | 2.5 | Impacts of precipitation trends on North Carolina's water supply
Peter J. Robinson, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC |
| 2:45 PM | 2.6 | Extremes in climate, extremes in fire
Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, Nevada |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:30 PM | 2.7 | Examining the Frequency of Daily Extreme Events During Oklahoma’s Climate Record
Derek S. Arndt, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and M. A. Shafer |
| 3:45 PM | 2.8 | Examination of Regional Wind Trends Due to Global Climate Change to Improve Wind Resource Assessments
John W. Zack, Meso, Inc., Troy, NY; and G. E. Van Knowe and K. T. Waight III |
| 4:00 PM | 2.9 | Alternative metrics for measuring surface heating trends
Christopher A. Davey, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and R. A. Pielke |
| 4:15 PM | 2.10 | THE INTERDECADAL VARIABILITY OF NORTHERN HEMISPHERE BLOCKING
David Barriopedro, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; and R. Garcia-Herrera, A. R. Lupo, and E. Hernandez |
| 4:30 PM | 2.11 | Strong wind characteristics and changes during the last half-century at five NWS stations near Coastal South Carolina
Allen H. Weber, Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, SC; and M. J. Parker and R. L. Buckley |
| 4:45 PM | 2.12 | Abrupt global temperature change and the instrumental record
Matthew J. Menne, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and A. M. Waple |
| 5:00 PM | 2.13 | Land use change in the Ogallala Aquifer region of the Great Plains and its impacts on the long-term temperature
R. Mahmood, Western Kentucky Univ., Bowling Green, KY; and S. A. Foster, T. Keeling, K. G. Hubbard, and C. Carlson |
| 5:15 PM | 2.14 | An Examination of Extreme Climate Events Using 19th Century Daily Data
Michael A. Palecki, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and K. E. Kunkel, J. R. Angel, M. C. Kruk, and K. Andsager |