Session 10a |
| | Drought (Parallel with Sessions 10B and 11) |
| | Organizer: Claude Duchon, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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| 1:30 PM | 10a.1 | Results of 23 years of drought monitoring and research in Colorado
Thomas B. McKee, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and N. J. Doesken and J. Kleist |
| 1:50 PM | 10a.2 | Use of the standardized precipitation index as a water resources monitoring tool in the Northeastern United States
Keith L. Eggleston, Northeast Regional Climate Center, Ithaca, NY |
| 2:10 PM | 10a.3 | On Using the Standard Precipitation Index to assess soil moisture status in North Carolina.
Aaron Sims, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and D. S. Niyogi and S. Raman |
| 2:30 PM | 10a.4 | Explaining agricultural drought in the United States Midwest
Michelle A. Buhta, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL |
| 2:50 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:20 PM | 10a.5 | Spatial modes of drought in the Central United States
Michael A. Palecki, Midwestern Climate Center/ISWS, Champaign, IL; and D. J. Leathers |
| 3:40 PM | 10a.6 | Pacific sea surface temperature and precipitation in the Southern Great Plains
Frederic Rossel, USDA/ARS, El Reno, OK; and J. Garbrecht |
| 4:00 PM | 10a.7 | A study on dry periods in Atlanta, Georgia
William R. Schaub Jr., NOAA/NWSFO, Peachtree City, GA |
| 4:20 PM | 10a.8 | Climate variability in southeastern Pennsylvania and its impact on the Schuylkill River basin
Keith G. Henderson, Villanova University, Villanova, PA |
| 4:40 PM | 10a.9 | Statistical tests for drought tendency investigation and their sensitivity
Sandor Szalai, Hungarian Meteorological Service, Budapest, Hungary; and C. Szinell |