Session 5 |
| | Drought Prediction, Monitoring and Mitigation |
| | Chair: Wade T. Crow, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD
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| 3:30 PM | 5.1 | Exploring mechanisms and predictability of U.S. drought using remote sensing, hydrological modeling, reanalysis and the NCEP Climate Forecast System
Justin Sheffield, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and L. Luo and E. F. Wood |
| 4:00 PM | 5.2 | Progress of the NOAA/NCEP NLDAS Drought Monitor and NLDAS Products
Youlong Xia, NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Ek, E. F. Wood, L. Luo, J. Sheffield, D. P. Lettenmaier, B. Livneh, D. Mocko, B. Cosgrove, J. Meng, H. Wei, V. Koren, J. C. Schaake, K. Mo, and K. Mitchell |
| 4:15 PM | 5.3 | New techniques for climate and drought information delivery at the national climatic data center 
Michael J. Brewer, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. Symonds |
| 4:30 PM | 5.4 | Towards integrating GRACE terrestrial water storage data into the U.S. and North American Drought Monitors
Rasmus Houborg, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. Rodell, J. S. Famiglietti, R. Heim, J. Lawrimore, B. Li, R. H. Reichle, M. Rosencranz, M. Svoboda, B. D. Wardlow, B. F. Zaitchik, and R. Tinker |
| 4:45 PM | 5.5 | Water balance in the agricultural watershed of Kumamoto groundwater region
Kenji Tanaka, Kumamoto Univ., Kumamoto, Japan; and H. Mizuno, D. Kuwamoto, H. Taniguchi, T. Hokamura, and F. Yamada |