Tuesday March 4
8:00 - 12:00 Registration
8:30 9:25 Session 1: Introduction and welcome
9:25 - 9:55 Coffee
9:55 12:00
Session 2: Decision Support
1:30 3:10
Session 3: Experimental Approaches
3:10
3:40 Refreshments
3:40 4:55
Session 4: Climate Services
5:30 - 7:30 Welcome Reception
Wednesday March 5
8:00 9:40
Session 5: Forecasting and Assessing Climate Change (1)
9:40 - 10:10
Coffee
10:10 11:50
Session 6: Forecasting and Assessing Climate Change (2)
12:00
1:30 Lunch
1:30 5:00
Session 7: Poster Presentations
3:10
3:40 Refreshments
6:00 - 9:00 Conference Dinner
Thursday March 6
8:00 10:05
Session 8: Drought mainly in the South
10:05 - 10:35
Coffee
10:35 12:15
Session 9: Water Issues
12:15
1:30 Lunch
1:30 2:45 Session 10:
Agriculture and forecasts
2:45
3:15 Refreshments
3:15 - 4:55
Session 11: Technical Issues
Friday March 7
8:00 9:40
Session 12: Interactive Session
9:40 - 10:10
Coffee
10:10 11:50
Session 13: Transitions
12:00
Workshop Ends
8:30
9:25 Session 1:
Introduction and welcome
Registration, Administration, Introduction
9:25
9:55 Coffee
9:55
12:00 Session 2: Decision
Support
2.1
Interactions with
Jessica
Lowrey
and Andrea J. Ray
Climate Diagnostics
Center, Boulder CO
2.2
Using Index Insurance to Manage Climate Risk: Issues in Scale Up and
2.3
Climate Predictions and Naval Decision-making
2.4
Communicating Climate Data for Decision Support at the County and
Regional Level through Geospatial Visualization
J.
Greg Dobson
and James F. Fox
2.5 Multi-dimensional
services of new NWS Local Climate Outlook products
NOAA
1:30
3:10 Session 3: Experimental
Approaches
3.1
Experimental Water
Resources Streamflow Outlook
NOAA/NWS/OHRFC
3.2
Forecasting and Reducing the Cost of Extreme Events, A Methodology
Aston
Chipanshi,
Harvey Hill and Gordon Sparks
Agriculture
and
3.3
Strategy for Developing Climate Forecast Products in Cooperation with
External Partners
Wayne
Higgins
and Mike Halpert
3.4
Climate prediction applications postdoctoral program (CPAPP) An experiment
in interfacing climate and society.
Lisa Goddard, Kelly Redmond, and Meg Austin
3:10 3:40 Refreshments
3:40
4:55 Session 4: Climate
Services
4.1
Climate Services
NOAA
4.2
NWS Western Water Supply Services Abstract
NWS
4.3
NIDIS: A Model for Interagency Climate Services Collaboration
Tim
Owen,
Roger Pulwarty, and Mark Svoboda
NCDC,
NOAA/CPO, NDMC
5:30 7:30 Welcome Reception
8:00
9:40 Session 5:
Forecasting and Assessing Climate Change (1)
5.1
Integrated Assessment of the Impacts of Climate Change on the State of
M.M.
Elsner,
J.S. Littell, E.L. Miles, D.P. Lettenmaier
Climate
Impacts Group,
5.2
Accelerating the Adoption of Climate Change Prevention and Adaptation
Measures:
The Use of Opinion Leader Strategies
Do Kyun Kim, Ph.D., & Edward W.
Maibach, Ph.D.
Office of Communications, NWS, NOAA
5.3
The Formulation and Presentation of an Official Statement on Climate
Change for
Gary
McManus
and Dr. Ken Crawford
5.4
Tackling The Issue of Climate Change in
David
F. Zierden,
Melissa Griffin, James J. O'Brien
COAPS,
9:40
- 10:10 Coffee
10:10
11:50
Session 6:
Forecasting and Assessing Climate Change (2)
1
Dept. of Atmos. and Ocean. Sci., University of Maryland 2 ESSIC, University of
Maryland 3 NOAA Environmental Modeling Center 4 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
5 ENEA Casaccia, Rome, Italy 6 NOAA Climate Prediction Center
6.2
Applications of climate forecast information in water resource planning:
opportunities and challenges in the
Andrew W. Wood,
Julie Vano, Shraddhanand Shukla and Anne C. Steinemann
University of
Washington Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
6.3
Supporting Climate Change Adaptation in US National Parks through
Scenario Planning
Holly
C. Hartmann,
Leigh Welling, Lee Macholz
6.4
Climate Predictions, Climate Change and Public Health: Emerging Needs and
Opportunities
NOAAs
Southeastern Regional Climate Center,
12:00 1:30 Lunch
1:30
5:00 Session 7: Poster
Presentations
(3:10 3:40 Refreshments
The ESIP Federations long experience in the development and deployment
of web services
Forecasting climate and health related events on platanus pollen and
grass pollen seasons in
J.L.
Camacho
(1), D. Cano (1), P. Cervign (2), J. Daz (2), A.M. Gutirrez (2), J. Subiza
(2),
(1)
National Institute of Meteorology, Spain (2) PalinoCAM Network, Autonomous
Region of Madrid, Spain, (3)
Impacts of Climate Change on
M.M. Elsner,
J.S. Littell, E.L. Miles, D.P. Lettenmaier
Climate Impacts
Group,
Sarah
F. Trainor, Craig Gerlach, Dan White,
John Walsh
A Collaborative Effort Between the
Jon Gottschalck, Sarah Trainor, Wayne Higgins, Tim Eichler
NOAA / Climate Prediction Center, Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy, NOAA / Climate Prediction Center, Saint Louis
University
Attribution of Extreme Variability of Temperature, Rainfall and
Storminess in the
NOAA/NWS
Potential for Next Generation Probabilistic Forecast Products
Michelle
L'Heureux,
Dan Collins, Wayne Higgins and Jeff Whitaker, Tom Hamill
NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC
and NOAA/OAR/ESRL/PSD
Evaluation and User Needs Related to Experimental Service of Early
Warning Information on Extreme Temperature events in
Climate Prediction
Division,
Two Becomes One: Cartographic Integration of the
University
of
Climate Variability and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from
Daniel
Solis,
David Letson and Boris Bravo-Ureta
Monitoring and predicting general vegetation condition using climate, satellite,
oceanic, and biophysical data
Tsegaye
Tadesse,
Brian D. Wardlow, and Jae H. Ryu
Drought-relevant information products based on LDAS-era hydrologic
modeling
Andrew W. Wood
Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering,
6:00 9:00 Conference Dinner
8:00
10:05 Session 8:
Drought mainly in the South
8.1
Impacts of climate anomalies on water resources in the
Dan
Tufford,
Greg Carbone, James Hussey, Kirstin Dow
8.2
Integrated Water Resource products for Drought
in
8.3
RISA Regional Drought Knowledge Transfers: Southeast/Southwest
G.
Garfin,
H. Hartmann, E. Lay, K. Dow, C. Fraisse, G. Carbone, D. Bathke, L. Demouche, M.
Higgins, C. Roncoli, J. Rhee, M. Crimmins, V. Cabrera, M. Marsalis, A. Olsson,
R. Vazquez, M. Bean, A. Thwaits
U.
8.4
Thoughts on Assessing Decadal-scale Precipitation Variations as Surrogate
Forecasts
Jeanne M. Schneider
Agricultural Research Service, USDA
8.5
The Jamaican mid-summer drought and NAO
10:05
- 10:35 Coffee
10:35
12:15 Session 9: Water
Issues
9.1
Residential Water Demand: Lessons From
Douglas
S. Kenney, Christopher Goemans,
Roberta Klein, Jessica Lowrey, and Kevin Reidy
Western
Water Assessment
9.2
A climate approach to
drought planning for urban water utilities
NCAR
and SEI
9.3
Evolution of the African Monsoon during 2006
Rosana Nieto-Ferreira,
Tom Rickenbach, Nick Guy, and Earle Williams
ECU, ECU, SJSU, MIT
9.4
The Easter Freeze,
4-10 April 2007: An Assessment of Impacts and Services
NOAA/National
Weather Service
12:15 1:30 Lunch
1:30
3:10 Session 10: Agriculture and
forecasts
10. 1New Developments and
Future Plans for AgClimate.org
10.2 Climate variation and USACE water resource management
Jack E. Davis
and William R. Curtis
Coastal and
Hydraulics Laboratory, USAE, Research and
10.
3 Interannual Crop Yield
Simulations over the
D.
W. Shin,
S. Cocke, Y.-K. Lim, T. E. LaRow, G. A. Baigorria, and J. J. O'Brien
COAPS,
FSU and Agricultural&Biological Engineering Department,
2:45
3:15 Refreshments
3:15
- 4:55 Session 11: Technical Issues
11.1
An Extended Procedure for Implementing the Relative Operating
Characteristic Graphical Method
Fredrick
H.M. Semazzi, Roberto J. Mera
Dep.
of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Science, and Dep. of Mathmatics,
11.2
WeatherCoder III: Fast Dissemination of Manual Observations
Kelly
Redmond,
Greg McCurdy, Grant Kelly, Tim Owen, Mike Brewer
DRI
/ WRCC, NOAA / NCDC, NOAA / NWS
11.3
An Update of the conversion of the NOAA/Climate Prediction Center (CPC)
web products to GIS Format
Viviane
Silva,
Lloyd Thomas, Mike Halpert and Wayne Higgins
NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC
11.4
An Improved Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI)
Klaus
Wolter,
Michael S. Timlin
NOAA/ESRL
PSD Climate Diagnostics Branch
8:00
9:40 Session 12:
Interactive Session
12.1Building
Bridges: Connecting Data Providers and Stakeholders
Carol
B. Meyer & Holly C. Hartmann
Foundation
for Earth Science,
9:40
- 10:10 Coffee
10:10
11:50 Session 13:
Transitions
13.1
How did we do? Initial results from a pilot CLIMAS stakeholder evaluation
project
Daniel
Ferguson
1, Anne Browning-Aiken 2, Gregg Garfin 1, Daniel McDonald 3, Marta Stuart 3,
Jennifer Rice 4
1
CLIMAS-Institute for the Study of Planet Earth, University of Arizona, 2 Udall
Center for Studies in Public Policy, University of Arizona, 3 Arizona
Cooperative Extension, University of Arizona, 4 Department of Geography,
University of Arizona
13.2 Crossing the
UCAR/NOAA,
Climate Program Office,
13.3
What May Be Needed to Change Farmers Perception of Using Climate
Predictions in Farming Decisions
Qi
S. Hu,
Lisa M. PytlikZillig, Kenneth G. Hubbard, Gary D. Lynne, and Roger H. Bruning
School
of Natural Resources, Center for Instructional Innovation, and Department of
Educational Psychology, and Department of Agricultural Economics, University of
Nebraska-Lincoln
13.4
Ten Years After User-centricity
in a messy situation
11:50 12:00 Concluding Remarks
Workshop Organizers
12:00 Workshop Ends
12:00 1:30 Lunch (upon
request)