Session: Hydrometeorological Extremes: Drought analysis and prediction I (95th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

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Hydrometeorological Extremes: Drought analysis and prediction I

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Thursday, 8 January 2015: 8:30 AM-9:45 AM

126BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Host: 29th Conference on Hydrology

Cochairs: Christa Peters-Lidard, Hydrological Sciences Lagoratory, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; Andrew W. Wood, Research Applications Laboratory, NCAR, Boulder, CO and Siegfried Schubert, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

This session invites papers that focus on scientific and operational, practical issues related to predicting and defining drought and reducing drought impacts. Topics of interest include the formulation and use of drought indices and definitions, and the characterization of drought impacts across the diverse climates of North America and the world. In particular, we welcome presentations spanning a range from drought analysis and prediction to management activities for high-impact drought events, on statewide to continental scales, and including applications such as drought early warning systems. Policy responses for managing drought are also of interest.

Papers:

8:30 AM

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Development of a Coastal Drought Index Using Salinity Data

Paul Conrads, USGS, Columbia, SC; and L. S. Darby

8:45 AM

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Temporal changes in drought indices used to provide early warning of drought development over sub-seasonal time scales

Jason Otkin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and M. C. Anderson, C. Hain, and M. D. Svoboda

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

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