Session 5 |
| | Hydrology of Semi-Arid Regions(parallel with Sessions 3 and 4) |
| | Chair: Mathew Barlow, AER, Lexington, MA
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| 8:30 AM | 5.1 | The use of large-scale climate information to predict Central Asia river flows at one and two season leads
Mathew Barlow, AER, Lexington, MA; and M. K. Tippett |
| 8:45 AM | 5.2 | Regional drivers of aridity in Southwest Asia and sensitivity to surface change  
Benjamin F. Zaitchik, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and J. P. Evans and R. B. Smith |
| 9:00 AM | 5.3 | Evaluation of snow model complexity within the NWS streamflow forecasting system
Kristie J. Franz, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; and T. S. Hogue and S. Sorooshian |
| 9:15 AM | 5.4 | Atmospheric moisture cycling over the southwestern US
Bruce T. Anderson, Boston University, Boston, MA; and H. Kanamaru and J. O. Roads |
| 9:30 AM | 5.5 | Role of the Monsoons Variability on the Summer Drought events in the Mediterranean Basin
Marina Baldi, IBIMET - CNR, Rome, Italy; and L. Genesio, F. Meneguzzo, F. Cesarone, and F. Piani |
| 9:45 AM | | Formal Poster Viewing
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| 11:00 AM | 5.6a | An observed trend in central South American precipitation
Brant Liebmann, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO; and C. S. Vera, L. M. V. Carvalho, I. Camilloni, V. Barros, M. Hoerling, and D. Allured |
| 11:14 AM | | Paper 5.6 moved to P1.33
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| 11:15 AM | 5.7 | The great 20th Century drying of Africa
James W. Hurrell, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Hoerling |
| 11:30 AM | 5.8 | Mean characteristics and interannual variations of kinematic and thermodynamic profiles in low-level jets over the eastern Pacific: Dropsonde data from CALJET-1998 and PACJET-2001
F. Martin Ralph, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and P. J. Neiman and R. Rotunno |
| 11:45 AM | 5.9 | Water allocation during drought: using a DSS to examine gains from trade on the Rio Conchos, MX
Steven Stewart, Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and J. Valdes, J. Gastelum, J. Aparicio, and J. Hidalgo |
| 12:00 PM | 5.10 | Trial by fire - developing, delivering, and defending experimental climate forecasts during three drought years in Colorado
Klaus Wolter, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO |