Joint Session 8 |
| | New challenges for applied meteorology and climatology (Joint between the 18th Conference on Applied Climatology, the First Symposium on Planetary Atmospheres, the 14th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, the First Environment and Health Symposium, the 12th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the 20th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, the First Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy, and the Fifth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research) |
| | Chair: Melissa Griffin, Florida Climate Center/Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL
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| 1:30 PM | J8.1 | Developing useful science: methods for engaging stakeholders and evaluating integrated climate tools
Gigi Owen, CLIMAS/University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and K. Averyt, K. Werner, and D. Ferguson |
| 1:45 PM | J8.2 | 10 years of the U.S. Drought Monitor: a look back and a look forward
Mark D. Svoboda, National Drought Mitigation Center, Lincoln, NE; and B. Fuchs, S. Scott, and J. Nothwehr |
| 2:00 PM | J8.3 | User-driven downscaling: advances in data apportioning and analysis to augment adaptation planning
Edwin P. Maurer, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA; and L. D. Brekke, T. Pruitt, K. D. White, E. Ochs, P. Duffy, and E. H. Girvetz |
| 2:15 PM | J8.4 | Trends of U.S. snowfall and snow cover in a warming world, 1948-2008 
Richard R. Heim Jr., NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
|  | J8.5 | Use of the Brazilian Model of Climate and Health (BHMC) in order to estimate admissions for respiratory diseases in Brazil
Micheline S. Z. S. Coelho, Weather Brasilian Service, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil |
| 2:30 PM | J8.6 | Martian dust storm hazards: improving characterization and forecasting
Nicholas Heavens, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and M. I. Richardson, I. J. McEwan, and M. W. Busch |