Session 4 Major Weather Impacts of 2018: Global Events

Tuesday, 8 January 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 15IMPACTS: Major Weather Events and Impacts of 2018
Cochairs:
Klaus Wolter, CIRES, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, NOAA/ESRL Physical Science Division, Boulder, CO; Thomas Bedard, AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions, Service Implementation, Wichita, KS; Tanja E. Fransen, NOAA/NWS, National Weather Service Glasgow, Glasgow, MT and Owen H. Shieh, Joint Typhoon Warning Center, Training Department, Pearl Harbor, HI

This session will focus on major weather events in 2018, highlighting their impacts around the globe.

Papers:
8:30 AM
4.1
Global Weather and Climate Extremes of 2018 (Invited Presentation)
Klaus Wolter, CIRES, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM
4.2
Cumulative Extreme Weather Events and Subsequent High-Impact Flooding in Southern Japan in Early July 2018
Lance F. Bosart, SUNY, Albany, NY; and D. R. Vallee
Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM
4.3
Extreme Drought of 2018 in Central Europe: Evaluation and Predictability
Petr Stepanek, Global Change Research Center, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic; and M. Trnka, P. Zahradnicek, and P. Skalak
Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM
4.4
The Odd One Out: The Story of a Tornado Outbreak in Southern Iceland
Elín B. Jónasdóttir, Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavik, Iceland

9:45 AM
4.5
The 2018 Wildfire Season: 420,002,018th Year of Biomass Burning on Earth (Invited Presentation)
Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, NV
Recorded Presentation

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