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CICAR Workshop - 8 May 2006
North American Droughts: Phenomena, Predictability, and Societal Impact
Lamont Hall, LDEO, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964
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Go to: Background to read more about the workshop
Morning Presentations: 9 AM – 12:30 PM
Opening remarks – goal of workshop
I. History and Dynamics of North American Drought (list of PDFs)
Goals: This session will present current understanding of the governing climate mechanisms, the history of NA Droughts based on physical data, and the prospects for their predictability
Lead speakers: Ed Cook; Richard Seager
Other presenters: Mingfang Ting; Gavin Gong; Huei-Ping Huang
Break: 20 min
II. Social Responses to Drought (list of PDFs)
Goals: This session will examine issues related to patterns of societal response to drought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It will discuss individual responses, institutional and political responses, and economic impacts.
Lead speakers: Roberta Balstad; Marc Levy
Other Presenters: Christian Webersik; Upmanu Lall; Bob Chen
III. Communicating Information about Drought (list of PDFs)
Goals: This session will present current progress on developing a strategy for communicating drought information to the public.
Lead speakers: Brad Lyon; Dan Osgood
Other Presenters: Jim Hansen; Casy Brown; Lisa Goddard
Lunch Break: 12:50 – 2 pm
Afternoon Discussions: 2 PM – 5 PM
- Survey of national activities to address North American droughts (Randall Dole – NOAA/Earth Systems Research Laboratory)
- CRED research (David Krantz) (PDF)
- Discussion: What are the ways to address the Workshop goal? Can we identify ripe opportunities for internal Columbia collaborations? National collaborations? How do we facilitate these? Are there ideas that can lead to new proposals for funding and from what agency?
- Summary and action items
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