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Expected Meeting Outcomes:
Thu October 25 – Joint Drought Task Force Meeting/Climate Diagnostic and Prediction Workshop (Open)
Drought Monitoring and Date Assimilation
08:20 – 08:40 Jesse Meng A Retrospective GLDAS for Improved Global Land Surface Climatology 08:40 – 09:00 Christa Peters-Lidard The Impact of Soil Moisture and Snow Assimilation on NLDAS Drought Metrics 09:00 – 09:20 Martha C. Anderson Use of remotely sensed evapotranspiration maps for monitoring drought impacts at field to continental scales 09:20 – 09:40 Amir AghaKouchak A Multi-Index Standardized Drought Monitoring and Prediction Framework
Drought and hydroclimate prediction
10:20 – 10:40 Eric Wood Assessment of the NMME system for the prediction of Drought over the NIDIS test beds 10:40 – 11:00 Kingtse Mo Do Climate Forecast System (CFSV2) forecasts improve seasonal soil moisture prediction? 11:00 – 11:20 Randy Koster Two Topics in Seasonal Streamflow Forecasting: Soil Moisture Initialization Error and Precipitation Downscaling 11:20 – 11:40 R.W. Arritt Precipitation intensity in downscaled seasonal forecasts 11:40 – 12:00 Jin-Ho Yoon Comparison of regional downscaling methods: dynamic downscaling using MRED vs. statistical downscaling methods
Physical mechanisms and case studies for extreme hydroclimate events
01:40 – 02:00 Charles Jones A case study of predictability of extreme precipitation over the CONUS and the MJO 02:00 – 02:20 Wenhong Li Summer precipitation variability over the Southeastern United States analyzed from atmospheric moisture budget 02:20 – 02:40 Rong Fu Assessing Future Changes of Drought over South-Central United States in Supporting Regional Water Resource Planning 02:40 – 03:00 Ben Kirtman Predictability of 2006-07 Drought in Southeast US
Drought Information and Services
03:40 – 04:00 Michael Hayes (Invited) The Role of Monitoring and Prediction within Drought Risk Management 04:00 – 04:20 Kelly Redmond (Invited) The WestWide Drought Tracker: Drought Monitoring at Fine Spatial Scales 04:20 – 04:40 Nolan Doesken (Invited) Enhanced drought monitoring and early warning activities in the Upper Colorado River Basin 04:40 – 05:00 Gregg Garfin (Invited) Drought Communication in the Southwest 05:00 – 05:20 Mark Svoboda (Invited) Drought as a focal point for climate services: Tools of the trade at the National Drought Mitigation Center
Fri October 26 – Drought Task Force Meeting (By Invitation)
08:15 – 08:30 Chad McNutt NIDIS Program activities and future directions Challenges in drought monitoring and prediction: the case of the 2011-2012 U.S. Drought
(Short presentations by Kingtse Mo, Mark Svoboda, Gregg Garfin, Rebecca Smith) 09:00 – 09:30 A research perspective (Short presentations by Randy Koster and Marty Hoerling)
Drought Task Force plans and future drought research directions
Siegfried Schubert, Kingtse Mo, Christa Peters-Lidard, Andy Wood 11:15 – 12:30 Near-term drought research gaps/directions: presentation of pre-meeting input and open discussion Moderator: Eric Wood 12:30 Meeting close (Annarita Mariotti) |
Meeting Participants
Amir AghaKouchak | University of California, Irvine |
Don Anderson | NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO) |
Martha Anderson | U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) |
Dan Barrie | NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO) |
E. Hugo Berbery | CICS-MD/Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) |
Allen Bradley | University of Iowa |
Martyn Clark | National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) |
Lisa Darby (NIDIS) | NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) |
Nolan Doesken | Colorado State University |
Mike Ek | NOAA/Environmental Modeling Center (EMC) |
Rong Fu | University of Texas at Austin |
Subhrendu Gangopadhyay | Bureau of Reclamation |
Greg Garfin | University of Arizona |
Chris Hain | NOAA/National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) |
Mike Hayes | National Drought Mitigation Center |
Marty Hoerling | NOAA/Physical Sciences Division (PSD) |
Ben Kirtman | University of Miami |
Randal Koster | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) |
Dennis Lettenmaier | University of Washington |
Ruby Leung | DOE Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
Xin-Zhong Liang | University of Maryland |
Lifeng Luo | Michigan State University |
Brad Lyon | International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) |
Annarita Mariotti | NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO) |
Chad McNutt (NIDIS) | NOAA/Climate Program Office (CPO)/NIDIS Program Support |
David Miskus (via Webex) | NOAA/NCEP Climate Prediction Center |
Kingtse Mo | NOAA/Climate Prediction Center (CPC) |
David Mocko | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) |
Christa Peters-Lidard | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) |
Brad Pugh (via Webex) | NOAA/NCEP Climate Prediction Center |
Kelly Redmond | Desert Research Institute/Western Regional Climate Center |
Pedro Restrepo | North Central RFC |
Siegfried Schubert | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) |
Rebecca Smith | Colorado State University |
Mark Svoboda | University of Nebraska – Lincoln |
Rich Tinker (via Webex) | NOAA/NCEP Climate Prediction Center |
Robert S. Webb | National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) |
Andy Wood | NOAA/Colorado Basin River Forecast Center (CBRFC) |
Eric Wood | Princeton University |