89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

Session 12B: Climate and weather extremes

Thursday, 15 January 2009: 8:30 AM-9:45 AM
Room 129B (Phoenix Convention Center)
Chair:  Aiguo Dai, NCAR
Papers:
  8:30 AM
Characteristics of the top ten snowstorms at first order stations in the U.S
Tamara G. Houston, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and S. Changnon

  8:45 AM
The frequency distribution of daily precipitation over the United States
Emily J. Becker, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. H. Berbery and R. W. Higgins

  9:00 AM
Seasonal and regional variations of U.S. trends in extreme precipitation frequency
Kenneth E. Kunkel, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and M. A. Palecki, R. Smith, L. Ensor, and D. R. Easterling

  9:15 AM
Signal detectability in extreme precipitation changes assessed from twentieth century climate simulations
Seung-Ki Min, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and X. Zhang, F. W. Zwiers, P. Friederichs, and A. Hense

http://www.springerlink.com/content/rv470641v6222257/