Session 5 |
| | Precipitation and Drought |
| | Cochairs: Mathew A. Barlow, University of Massachusetts - Lowell, Lowell, MA; Oliver Frauenfeld, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
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| 1:30 PM | 5.1 | Precipitation in the southeast United States during the twentieth century
Peter J. Robinson, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and R. Redding |
| 1:45 PM | 5.2 | Eastern U.S. snowstorm characteristics
David Changnon, Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL; and S. Changnon |
| 2:00 PM | 5.3 | The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS): Volunteers Monitoring Precipitation across the Nation-the Next Step  
Henry Reges, CoCoRaHS/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and N. J. Doesken and J. Turner |
|  | 5.4 | Citizen-based Drought Impacts Reporting in Arizona
Michael A. Crimmins, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and G. M. Garfin and A. McCord |
| 2:15 PM | 5.5 | Issues of drought within a state climate office
David A. Robinson, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ |
| 2:30 PM | | Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
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| 4:00 PM | 5.6 | Relationships between tropical cyclones and heavy precipitation in the Carolinas
Charles E. Konrad, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and L. B. Perry |
| 4:15 PM | 5.7 | An analysis of the Northern Gulf of Mexico sea breeze and associated thunderstorms
Christopher M. Hill, GeoResources Institute, Stennis Space Center, MS; and P. J. Fitzpatrick, Y. Lau, J. Corbin, S. Bhate, and P. G. Dixon |
| | 5.8 | Arizona's innovations in drought monitoring and knowledge exchange
Gregg M. Garfin, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and M. Crimmins |
| 4:30 PM | 5.9 | The relationship between drought and wildfire in the US
Beth L. Hall, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown |
| 4:45 PM | 5.10 | MesoWest: One Approach to Integrate Surface Mesonets (Formerly Paper J3.23)
John D. Horel, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT |