Session 8 |
| | Incorporating climate information and forecasts into the decision making process in the water resource and energy sectors |
| | Chairs: Bradfield Lyon, International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY; Mathew A. Barlow, University of Massachusetts - Lowell, Lowell, MA
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| 8:45 AM | 8.1 | Design criteria for a national climate service: insights from a RISA program (INVITED PRESENTATION) 
Edward L. Miles, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and A. K. Snover and L. Whitely Binder |
| 9:15 AM | 8.2 | The use of climate information in water resources management (INVITED PRESENTATION)
Holly Hartmann, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
| 9:45 AM | | Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
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| 11:00 AM | 8.3 | Three-tier operational precipitation and hydrological forecasting of large-scale un-gauged river basins: Developing a basis for strategic and tactical decisions for water management, agricultural planning and disaster mitigation (INVITED PRESENTATION)
Peter J. Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and T. M. Hopson and C. D. Hoyos |
| 11:30 AM | 8.4 | Using climate information for river basin management in Sri Lanka (INVITED PRESENTATION)
Lareef Zubair, IRI, Palisades, NY |
| 12:00 PM | | Lunch Break (Cash and Carry available in the Exhibit Hall)
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| 1:30 PM | 8.5 | (INVITED) Measuring the performance of hydrological forecasts for hydropower production at BC Hydro and Hydro-Québec 
Frank Weber, BC Hydro, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and L. Perreault and V. Fortin |
| 2:00 PM | 8.6 | Critical climate controls and information needs for environmental assessment and adaptive management in the Grand Canyon region
Shaleen Jain, NOAA/CIRES and Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. S. Pulwarty, T. Melis, D. Topping, and J. K. Eischeid |
| 2:30 PM | 8.7 | Improved Operation of Reservoir Systems – Utility of Seasonal and Monthly Updated Climate Forecasts
Sankar Arumugam, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and U. Lall |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall and AMS IPOD Raffle
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| 3:30 PM | 8.8 | Climate-informed decision tools for the water and energy sector (INVITED PRESENTATION)
Casey Brown, International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Palisades, NY; and U. Lall and S. Arumugam |
| 4:00 PM | 8.9 | An integrated approach to the efficient management of scarce freshwater resources in tropical West Africa: the IMPETUS project
Michael Christoph, Univ. of Cologne, Cologne, Germany; and A. H. Fink and P. Speth |
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