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Summer Colloquium 2011

 

Statistical Assessment of Extreme Weather Phenomena under Climate Change
Week 2 Talks

 

  • Talk #1: Michael Wehner, Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab., Extremes from Climate Models: An Overiew of AR4 and USGCRP reports Plans for AR5, (presentation)

  • Talk #2:Alexander Gershunov, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Precipitation Volatility and its Causes: Probability of Daily Extremes, Abstract (presentation)

  • Talk #3: Tom Knudson, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab/NOAA, Using Models to Explore the Influence of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Atlantic Hurricanes, Abstract (presentation)

  • Talk #4: Tad Pfeffer, University of Colorado, Projected Sea Level Extremes and Uncertainties in the 21st Century (presentation)

  • Talk #5: Marty Hoerling, NOAA Environmental Sciences Research Laboratory, Physics of Extreme Climate Events: Illustration via Attribution of Two Cases, Abstract (presentation)

  • Talk #6: Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Simulations of Floods and Droughts in the Western U.S. Under Climate Change, (presentation)

  • Talk #7: James Done, NCAR, Hurricane Information from Regional Climate Models, (presentation)

  • Talk #8: Andy Wood, NOAA Colorado Basin River Forecast Center, Physical and Practical Requirements in Downscaling for Hydrologic Assessment and Prediction, (presentation)

  • Talk #9: Rick Katz, NCAR, Extreme Value Analysis Under Climate Change, (presentation)

  • Talk #10: Dan Cooley, Colorado State University, Measuring and Modeling Dependence for Multivariate Extremes (presentation)

  • Talk #11: David Stephenson, University of Exeter, Grand Challenges in Modeling Storm-Related Extreme Events, Abstract (presentation)

  • Talk #12: Philippe Naveau, CNRS Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement, Downscaling of local precipitation (extremes included): A statistical perspective), (presentation)

  • Talk #13:John England, US Bureau of Reclamation, Extremes in Floods for Dam Safety and Water Resources at the Bureau of Reclamation, Abstract (presentation)

  • Talk #14: Beth Faber, USACE Hydrologic Engineering Center, Use of Information on Climate Extremes: US Army Corps of Engineers Perspective, (presentation)

  • Talk #15: – Jayantha Obeysekara, South Florida Water Management District, Extremes of Precipitation, Temperature and Sea Level in a Changing Climate: Implications for Water Resources Management, (presentation)

  • Talk #16: Rajagopalan Balaji, University of Colorado, Impacts of Climate Extremes on Water Quality Management and Regulations, (presentation)

  • Talk #17: Mike Meyer, Georgia Institute of Technology, Impacts of Climate Change on the Transportation Sector: Design and Operations Implications , Abstract (presentation)

  • Talk #18: Guido Franco, California Energy Commission, Searching for Practical and Flexible Definitions of Extreme Events under a Changing Climate: Energy Sector, Abstract (presentation)

  • Talk #19: Mike Kleeman, University of California, Davis, Climate Impacts on Extreme Air Pollution Events in California, (presentation)

  • Talk #20: Radley Horton, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Extreme Event Analyses for Urban Adaptation Planning, (presentation)

  • Talk #21: Upmanu Lall, Columbia University, Global Flood Risk, Abstract (presentation)

  • Talk #22: Rick Murnane, Bermuda Institute for Ocean Sciences, Extreme Events and Reinsurance, Abstract (presentation)

  • Talk #23: Richard Grotjahn, University of California, Davis, Weather and Climate Extremes on Irrigated and Specialty Agriculture , Abstract (presentation)

  • Talk #24: Gene Takle, Iowa State University, Vulnerability of US Non-Irrigated Commodity Crops to Extremes of Weather and Climate, (presentation)

  • Talk #25: Jerry Skees, University of Kentucky, Applications to Agriculture and Other Sectors, (presentation)

  • Talk #26: Tony Westerling, University of California, Merced, Western US Climate and Fire Extremes: Issues in Scale, Uncertainty, Systems Interactions and Thresholds

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    Panel Discussion Summaries

  • Agriculture/Fire Management summary
  • Water Management summary
  • Infrastructure Planning summary
  • Modeling and Statistical Analysis summary
  • NSF Funding Opportunities summary