Session 3 Societal Impacts and Climate Assessments (Co-Sponsored by the Committee on Societal Impacts) (Parallel with Session 2)

Monday, 10 January 2000: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Host: 11th Symposium on Global Change Studies
Organizer:
David Easterling, NOAA/NCDC, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC

Papers:
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 Jr.

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 Jr., 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

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