12th Symposium on Global Change Studies and Climate Variations
Precipitation Extremes: Prediction, Impacts, and Responses
    

Joint Session 2

 Climatology of Precipitation Extremes: Observed Characteristics, Trends and Impacts (Joint with the 12th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations and the Symposium on Precipitation Extremes: Prediction, Impacts, and Responses)
 Organizer: Greg Johnson, USDA-NRCS, Portland, OR
8:30 AMJ2.1Orographic Thunderstorms and extreme floods along the western margin of the central appalachians  
James A. Smith, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and M. L. Baeck, N. S. Hicks, and Y. Zhang
9:00 AMJ2.2Storm Precipitation Structure in the Eastern United States: Part I, Spatial Changes  
Michael A. Palecki, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and J. R. Angel and S. E. Hollinger
9:15 AMJ2.3Storm Precipitation Structure in the Eastern United States: Part II, Temporal Changes  
James R. Angel, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and M. A. Palecki and S. E. Hollinger
9:30 AMJ2.4Analysis of Seasonal, Climate, and Elevation Effects on Times Between Storms  
James V. Bonta, USDA/ARS, Coshocton, OH; and C. T. Hanson and T. Keefer
9:45 AMJ2.5Using PRISM to Map Extreme Precipitation Events  
Christopher Daly, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and G. H. Taylor
10:00 AMCoffee Break  
10:30 AMJ2.6Very heavy precipitation over the contiguous United States: Climatology, trends, and relationship with high streamflow and cloudiness  
Pavel Ya. Groisman, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. W. Knight, T. R. Karl, and B. Sun
11:00 AMJ2.7Midwest U.S. Trends in Precipitation Extremes and Event Return Periods  
Kenneth E. Kunkel, ISWS, Champaign, IL
11:15 AMJ2.8Trend and Shift Statistics on Annual Maximum Precipitation in Ohio River Basin over the Last Century  
Bingzhang Lin, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and L. T. Julian
11:30 AMJ2.9SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS OF HEAVY PRECIPITATION IN THE UNITED STATES  
Stanley A. Changnon, ISWS, Champaign, IL
12:00 PMSession Adjourns for Lunch  
12:15 PMConference Luncheon  
2:15 PMJ2.10NOAA Atlas 14—New Precipitation Frequencies for the United States  
Lesley T. Julian, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
2:45 PMJ2.11It Is Time To Update The NOAA Precipitation Frequency Information  
Nolan J. Doesken, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
3:00 PMJ2.12Development of a New Storm Generator Model and Associated Precipitation Studies  
James V. Bonta, USDA/ARS, Coshocton, OH
3:15 PMJ2.13Characteristics of Extreme Precipitation and Associated Streamflow in the Reynold's creek Experimental watershed, Idaho  
Clayton L. Hanson, USDA/ARS, Boise, ID; and F. B. Pierson
3:30 PMCoffee Break  
4:00 PMJ2.14Paleohydrologic estimates of convective rainfall in the Rocky Mountains  
Robert D. Jarrett, U.S. Geological Survey, Lakewood, CO
J2.15Extreme Precipitation and Hydrometeorology Investigations and Needs  
John F. England Jr., U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO
4:14 PMJ2.16Creative Re-Construction of Historical Extreme Convective Precipitation Events using Radar, Cloud-to-Ground Lightning and Conventional Observations  
John F. Henz, Henz Meteorological Services, Littleton, CO
4:29 PMJ2.17Generalized and Site-Specific Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP) Studies for Dam safety evaluations  
Edward M. Tomlinson, Applied Weather Associates, Monument, CO
J2.18Application of a stochastic precipitation model to estimate the inflow frequency of extreme floods to Folsom Dam on the American River Basin, near Sacramento, California  
David M. Goldman, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Davis, CA; and M. Schaefer and B. Barker

Tuesday, 16 January 2001: 8:30 AM-4:43 PM

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