Session 5B |
| | Topics in Applied Climatology II |
| | Chair: Fiona Horsfall, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
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| 1:30 PM | 5B.1 | Developing a reference crop evapotranspiration climatology for the southeastern United States using the FAO Penman-Monteith estimation technique 
Heather A. Dinon, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and R. Boyles and G. G. Wilkerson |
| 1:45 PM | 5B.2 | Intraseasonal predictions of tropical cyclone activity in the North Atlantic Ocean
James I. Belanger, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and P. J. Webster and J. A. Curry |
| 2:00 PM | 5B.3 | Impacts of the 1954 Heat Wave
Nancy E. Westcott, Midwestern Regional Climate Center, Illinois State Water Survey, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL; and K. Grady |
| 2:15 PM | 5B.4 | A Demonstration of the Value of Nudging in Downscaled Regional Climate Simulations from a Global Climate Model
Tanya L. Otte, EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and J. H. Bowden, J. A. Herwehe, C. G. Nolte, and G. Faluvegi |
| 2:30 PM | 5B.5 | The misuse and misinterpretation of the ACE and PDI indices for hurricane energetics
Angela M. Fritz, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and J. I. Belanger, J. A. Curry, and G. J. Holland |
|  | 5B.6 | Time varying nature of oceanic forcing of drought in the United States
Jose Maliekal, The College at Brockport, Brockport, NY |