Session: Drought Monitoring (19th Conference on Applied Climatology/36th Annual Meeting of the American Association of State Climatologists and Practical Solutions for a Warming World: AMS Conference on Climate Adaptation)

Monday, 18 July 2011: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

Salon C1 (Asheville Renaissance)

Host: 19th Conference on Applied Climatology

Chair:

Steven M. Quiring, Texas A&M University, Department of Geography, College Station, TX

Papers:

1:30 PM

2a.1

Synthesizing diverse stakeholder needs for a drought early warning information system in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin

Lisa S. Darby, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and C. McNutt, K. T. Ingram, P. N. Knox, C. J. Martinez, D. F. Zierden, R. S. Pulwarty, and J. Verdin

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

2a.2

The global drought monitor portal – the foundation for a global drought early warning system

Michael J. Brewer, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. R. Heim Jr., W. Pozzi, J. Vogt, and J. Sheffield

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (421.5 kB)

2:00 PM

2a.3

Building a Cooperative Network of Drought Communities

Deborah Bathke, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and J. Nothwehr, N. A. Wall, C. J. Bergman, M. D. Svoboda, M. J. Hayes, T. K. Bernadt, and J. Robine

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

2a.4

RAWS network products to improve western US drought monitoring

Laura M. Edwards, DRI, Reno, NV; and K. T. Redmond and G. McCurdy

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

2a.5

A modified Standardized Precipitation Index for drought monitoring

Brent McRoberts, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and J. Nielsen-Gammon

Recorded Presentation