Session 3 |
| | Extreme events in weather, water and climate |
| | Cochairs: Robert D. Bornstein, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; David Bright, BPA, Portland, OR
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| 11:00 AM | 3.1 | Statistical modeling of hot spells and heat waves
Richard W. Katz, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and E. M. Furrer and M. D. Walter |
| 11:15 AM | 3.2 | Cooling of maximum temperatures in coastal California air basins during 1969–2005: monthly and extreme value trends
Allison Charland, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and B. Lebassi, J. Gonzalez, and R. Bornstein |
| 11:30 AM | 3.3 | A climatology of heavy midlatitude rainfall across the United States from 1949–2000
Elaine S. Godfrey, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. Crawford and M. Richman |
| 11:45 AM | 3.4 | A novel financial market structure for mitigating hurricane risk 
Daniel S. Wilks, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY |