Session: Regional Climate Modeling to Improve Climate Variability and Change Projections at the Local Scale I (91st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Thursday, 27 January 2011: 8:30 AM-9:45 AM

612 (Washington State Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 25th Conference on Hydrology; and the 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change )

Cochairs:

Francina Dominguez, Univ. of Arizona, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ; Dennis P. Lettenmaier, University of Washington, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA and L. Ruby Leung, PNNL, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Richland, WA

Papers:

8:30 AM

J10.1

Drivers of extreme events at the regional scale: Investigations with regional climate simulations and observations [INVITED]

Sonia I. Seneviratne, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and E. L. Davin, M. Hirschi, E. B. Jaeger, R. Lorenz, B. Orlowsky, and A. J. Teuling

8:45 AM

J10.2

Assessment of the agricultural impacts of climate change in the Southeastern United States: Decision support tools and uncertainty

Alex C. Ruane, NASA/GISS, New York, NY; and R. M. Horton, J. M. Winter, and C. Rosenzweig

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

J10.3A