Session: Poster Session: Climate Assessments, Drought, and Observed Climate Change (85th AMS Annual Meeting)

P1.1

Bringing together disparate data for climate impacts studies

M. Benno Blumenthal, Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and C. F. Ropelewski, E. Grover-Kopec, J. del Corral, and M. Dilley

Recorded presentation

P1.2

Response of winter cereal productivity in Spain to climate variability

Concepcion Rodriguez-Puebla, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain; and A. H. Encinas and M. D. Frías

Poster PDF (170.3 kB)

P1.3

Study on the Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Wheat Production in Contrast Environments of South Australia

P1.4

A climatology of weather influences on electric power outages in New Hampshire

Michael H. Nahmias, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH; and E. G. Hoffman

Poster PDF (58.5 kB)

P1.5

Afghanistan weather hazards

Bradford R. Pugh, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/fews/AFGHANISTAN/index.html

Poster PDF (20.3 kB)

P1.6

Examination of Global Wind Trends Due to Global Climate Change to Improve Wind Resource Assessments

Glenn E. Van Knowe, AWS Truewind, LLC, Troy, NY; and J. W. Zack, K. T. Waight, and M. Brower

http://www.meso.com

Poster PDF (145.7 kB)

P1.7

Customer satisfaction with NOAA’s National Weather Service climate products and services

Barbara E. Mayes, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. E. Livezey

P1.8

Status report on NWS climate services implementation at the regional and local level

Judith A. Koepsell, Climate Services Division/OCWWS/NWS/NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and R. E. Livezey

P1.9

Monitoring and forecasting drought in Southern Africa during the 2002-2003 season

James Verdin, USGS, Sioux Falls, SD; and C. C. Funk, T. Magadzire, J. Michaelsen, and G. Husak

P1.10

Attribution studies for understanding late 20th climate trends in the Sahel: Regional climate model simulations using NCEP Reanalysis (1982-2002)

Gregory S. Jenkins, Howard University, Washington, DC; and B. Sylla and A. T. Gaye

P1.11

Analysis of meteorological drought in Mexico

Juan Matias Méndez-Pérez Sr., Center for Atmospheric Sciences / National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico city, Mexico, Mexico; and V. Magaña and E. Caetano

P1.12

P1.12 moved to oral presentation 5.6a

P1.13

Recent Trends in Mid-Atlantic Regional Water Cycle

Donglian Sun, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

P1.14

An analysis of century-long Southwest U. S. precipitation data using wavelet analysis

Eileen A. Hall-McKim, University of Colorado, CIRES/NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO; and G. N. Kiladis

P1.15

Toward developing unbiased upper-air temperature and moisture trends from global historical radiosonde data: Validating and completing Russian radiosonde history

Steven R. Schroeder, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Poster PDF (268.8 kB)

P1.16

Radiosonde Atmospheric Temperature Products for Assessing Climate (RATPAC): Extending a homogeneity-adjusted radiosonde temperature time series using first differences

Melissa Free, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and D. J. Seidel, J. K. Angell, J. Lanzante, I. Durre, T. C. Peterson, and J. Lawrimore

P1.17

Surface pressure trends in the canadian arctic during 1953–2003

William A. Van Wijngaarden, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada

Poster PDF (174.4 kB)

P1.18

A revised U.S. climate extremes index

Karin L. Gleason, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. H. Lawrimore, D. H. Levinson, and T. R. Karl

Poster PDF (396.1 kB)

P1.19

Multidecadal variability of spring season minimum temperature patterns in the Western United States

David P. Brown, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

P1.20

Consistency of recent European summer climate trends and extremes with future regional climate projections

P1.21

Climate extreme indices via regional climate change workshops

Thomas C. Peterson, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC

Poster PDF (173.8 kB)

P1.22

Recent California climate variability: Spatial and temporal temperature trend patterns

Richard Medina, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and G. Gongora, S. LaDochy, and W. C. Patzert

P1.23

Central California: Opposing temperature trends valley vs. mountains

John R. Christy, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. B. Norris, K. T. Redmond, and K. P. Gallo

Poster PDF (1.7 MB)

P1.24

Examining local and regional temperature changes for the 1977-2003 period using a truly homogeneous station record

David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and M. Menne, C. N. Williams Jr., D. Levinson, and G. M. Goodge

Poster PDF (28.6 kB)

P1.25

Detection of Inhomogeneity in Extreme Value Series

Xuebin Zhang, MSC, Downsview, ON, Canada; and J. Wang

P1.26

MONITORING OF BACKGROUND ATMOSPHERE ON CLIMATE CHANGE OVER KOREAN PENINSULA

Sung-Nam Oh, Meteorological Research Institute / Korea Meteorological Administration, Seoul, South Korea

Poster PDF (1.6 MB)

P1.27

From Dimming to Brightening: Trends in Solar Radiation inferred from Surface Observations

C. N. Long, PNNL, Richland, WA; and M. Wild and E. G. Dutton

P1.28

Asymmetric responses of the hydrological cycle in global warming and El Niño

P1.29

An updated analysis of observed cloudiness changes over China: Are changes related to increases in air pollution?

Dale Kaiser, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN; and Y. Qian

P1.30

An examination of the quality of the Atlantic tropical cyclone database

Bradford S. Barrett, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. M. Leslie

Poster PDF (154.9 kB)

P1.31

Variance of Interdecadal Component of Global Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly and the Correlations to the Climate of China

Xiouxia Zhou, NUIST, Nanjing, China; and P. Wang and C. Zhu

P1.32

P1.32 moved to JP2.28

P1.33

Distributed flash-flood hydrologic modeling for semi-arid regions using radar data

Soni Yatheendradas, HWR-SAHRA, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and T. Wagener, H. V. Gupta, C. Unkrich, M. Schaffner, and D. Goodrich

Poster Session 1: Poster Session: Climate Assessments, Drought, and Observed Climate Change