85th AMS Annual Meeting

Session 11: Living With a Limited Water Supply, continued. (parallel with Session 10)

Wednesday, 12 January 2005: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Chair:  Dian J. Seidel, NOAA/ARL
Papers:
  1:45 PM
A new perspective on drought in West Africa
Sharon E. Nicholson, FSU, Tallahassee, FL

  2:00 PM
Case Studies of Mesoscale Convective Systems in Sub-Sahelian West Africa
Jon M. Schrage, Creighton University, Omaha, NE; and A. H. Fink

  2:15 PM
CLIP: Climate-land interaction project—Investigating human-climate interactions in East Africa
Brent M. Lofgren, Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab, Ann Arbor, MI; and N. J. Moore, J. A. Andresen, J. J. Olson, D. J. Campbell, and B. C. Pijanowski

  2:30 PM
Seasonal temperature and energy demand predictions for the U.S. west
David W. Pierce, SIO/Univ. of California, San Diego, CA; and E. Alfaro, A. Gershunov, T. P. Barnett, and D. Cayan

  2:45 PM
CalClim: An accessible data archive to monitor California climate
Laura M. Edwards, DRI, Reno, NV; and K. T. Redmond, G. D. McCurdy, D. R. Cayan, M. Meyer Tyree, and L. Riddle

  3:15 PM
Seasonal variation of daily evaporation over two distinct biomes in a northern extent of the Chihuahuan desert
J. H. Prueger, National Soil Tilth Laboratory, Ames, IA; and W. P. Kustas, J. L. Hatfield, L. E. Hipps, and T. Schmugge

  3:30 PM
The influence of emission scenarios on climate impacts: A California prototype
Katharine Hayhoe, ATMOS Research & Consulting, South Bend, IN; and D. Cayan, C. B. Field, P. Frumhoff, E. P. Maurer, N. L. Miller, S. Moser, S. Schneider, K. N. Cahill, L. Dale, W. M. Hanemann, L. S. Kalkstein, J. M. Lenihan, R. P. Neilson, C. Lunch, S. C. Sheridan, R. Drapek, and J. Verville

  3:45 PM
Initial results from the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program
W. J. Gutowski, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and R. Arritt, S. Biner, G. Boer, D. Caya, P. Duffy, M. Giguere, F. Giorgi, I. Held, R. Jones, R. Laprise, R. Leung, L. Mearns, A. Nunes, J. Pal, Y. Qian, J. Roads, L. Sloan, M. Snyder, R. Stouffer, E. Takle, and W. Washington

  4:00 PM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break