87th AMS Annual Meeting

Session 6B: Weather to Climate Scale Flood Forecasting

Thursday, 18 January 2007: 1:30 PM-4:45 PM
211 (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)
Organizers:  Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NWS and John C. Schaake, NOAA/NWS
Papers:
  2:00 PM
Spatially-variable, physically-derived flash flood guidance
John A. Schmidt, NOAA/NWS, Tulsa, OK; and A. J. Anderson and J. H. Paul

  2:15 PM
Evaluation of a distributed real-time semi-arid flash-flood forecasting model utilizing radar data in the Tucson, Arizona area
David C. Goodrich, USDA/ARS, Tucson, AZ; and S. Yatheendradas, T. Wagerer, H. V. Gupta, C. Unkrich, and M. Schaffner

  2:45 PM
Hydrologic Evaluation of Radar Rainfall Retrievals for Urban Flood Forecasting
Baxter E. Vieux, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. Bell, R. Nichols, and P. B. Bedient

  3:00 PM
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall and Raffle

  3:30 PM
Seamless Daily to Seasonal Ensemble Flood Forecasting for Bangladesh
Thomas M. Hopson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. J. Webster and H. R. Chang

  3:45 PM
Development of a strategy for including long-range climate forecast information in ensemble forcing for hydrologic ensemble prediction
J. C. Schaake, NOAA/NWS, Annapolis, MD; and P. J. Restrepo, D. J. Seo, R. Hartman, K. Werner, L. Wu, and J. Demargne

  4:00 PM
ENSO-Based Index Insurance: Approach and Peru Flood Risk Management Application
Abedalrazq F. Khalil, Columbia University, New York, NY; and H. H. Kwon, U. Lall, M. Miranda, and J. Skees

  4:15 PM
On the Origin of Floods in the USA: The Role of Large Scale Climate Processes
Hyun-Han Kwon, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and A. F. Khalil and U. Lall

  4:30 PM
ENSO Forcing of Streamflow Conditions in the Pearl River Basin
R. Jason Caldwell, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Denver, CO; and R. J. Ricks Jr.