Session 3 |
| | Societal Impacts and Climate Assessments (Co-Sponsored by the Committee on Societal Impacts) (Parallel with Session 2) |
| | Organizer: David Easterling, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC
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| 1:30 PM | 3.1 | Long-term fluctuations in hail incidences in the United States
David Changnon, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL; and S. A. Changnon |
| 1:45 PM | 3.2 | Regional impacts and adaptation: new challenges for climate change reporting and synthesis
Stewart J. Cohen, Environment Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| 2:00 PM | 3.3 | Development of an index to monitor extreme weather-climate impacts in the United States
Stanley A. Changnon, Changnon Climatologist, Mahomet, IL; and G. J. D. Hewings and R. A. Pielke |
| 2:15 PM | 3.4 | Ten-year U.S. regional climate simulations for impact assessments
Zaitao Pan, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and J. H. Christensen, R. W. Arritt, W. J. Gutowski, and E. S. Takle |
| 2:30 PM | 3.5 | Combining Paleoclimatic Evidence and GCMS by Means of Data Assimilation Through Upscaling and Nudging (Datun)
Hans von Storch, GKSS Research Centre, Geesthacht, Germany; and U. Cubasch, J. F. Gonzalez-Rouco, J. M. Jones, R. Voss, M. Widmann, and E. Zorita |
| 2:45 PM | 3.6 | Overlooked issues in the U.S. national climate and IPCC assessments
Roger A. Pielke, Sr., Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO |