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42nd NOAA Annual Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop

23-26 October 2017, Norman, OK

Climate Prediction S&T Digest

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CONTENTS

PREFACE

OVERVIEW

1. RECENT EVENTS

California from drought to deluge within the framework of winter stationary waves

    by Simon Wang, Utah State University; Emily Becker, Jinho Yoon, Rob Gillies

Diagnosing the atypical extreme precipitation events under weakly forced synoptic setting: The West Virginia flood (June 2016) and beyond

    by Binod Pokharel, Utah State University; S.-Y. Simon Wang, Yen-Heng Lin, Lin Zhao, and Robert Gillies

An overview of the 2016-17 La Niña and return to neutral conditions

    by Michelle L'Heureux, NOAA/NWS Climate Prediction Center

Relation between a Rossby wave-breaking event and enhanced convective activities in August 2016

    by Kazuto Takemura, Climate Prediction Division, Japan Meteorological Agency; Yutaro Kubo, and Shuhei Maeda

The sudden onset of the current 2017 northern High Plains drought

    by Muthuvel Chelliah, NOAA/NWS Climate Prediction Center; David Miskus

The Australian climate of 2016; A strong negative Indian Ocean Dipole dominates

    by Catherine Ganter, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia; Andrew Watkins, and Felicity Gamble

Causality and sub-seasonal predictability of the 2016 Yangtze River extreme rainfall

    by Xing Yuan, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Shanshan Wang, and Zeng-Zhen Hu

2. SUBSEASONAL TO SEASONAL EXTREMES

Skillful empirical subseasonal prediction of landfalling atmospheric river activity using the Madden-Julian Oscillation and the Quasi-biennial Oscillation (INVITED)

    by Bryan Mundhenk, Colorado State University; Elizabeth Barnes, Eric Maloney, and Cory Baggett

The impact of El Niño on winter and early spring U.S. tornado outbreaks (INVITED)

    by Ashton Robinson Cook, NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center; Lance M. Leslie, David B. Parsons, and Joseph T. Schaefer

Extratropical impacts on Atlantic tropical cyclone activity via Rossby wave breaking (INVITED)

    by Zhuo Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Developing an experimental week 2-4 severe weather outlook for the United States

    by Hui Wang, NOAA/NWS Climate Prediction Center; Alima Diawara, Arun Kumar, and David DeWitt

Gulf of Mexico influence on sub-seasonal and seasonal severe thunderstorm frequency

    by Maria J. Molina, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Central Michigan University; John T. Allen, and Vittorio A. Gensini

Short-term climate extremes: Probabilistic forecasts from a multi-model ensemble

    by Emily J. Becker, NOAA/NWS Climate Prediction Center and Innovim LLC; Huug van den Dool

CFSv2-based hybrid dynamicall-statistical model for week 3 to 4 forecasts of Atlantic/Pacific tropical storm activity

    by Christina Finan, NOAA/NWS Climate Prediction Center and Innovim LLC; Hui Wang, and Jae Schemm

3. CLIMATE SERVICES

Delivering impact-based seasonal outlooks for South Central Texas

    by Larry Hopper, Jr., Austin-San Antonio NWS WFO; Mark Lenz, Ty Dickinson, and J. W. Zeitler

Improving impact-based seasonal outlooks for South Central Texas

    by Ty Dickinson, The University of Oklahoma; Larry Hopper, and Mark Lenz

Forecasting long-term water supply using stochastic methods with trend consideration: A study on Lake Meredith in the Canadian River Basin in Texas

    by John Zhu and Nelun Fernando, Texas Water Development Board, Austin, Texas

Tracking progress on NOAA's MAPP-CTB projects: Accelerating transition of research advances into improved operational capabilities

    by Jiayu Zhou, NOAA/NWS Office of Science and Technology Integration; David DeWitt

4. HIGH LATITUDE VARIABILITY

Diagnosing extremes and trends of seasonal temperatures in Alaska (INVITED)

    by John E. Walsh, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Brian Brettschneider

Atmosphere-sea ice coupling processes in observations and CMIP5 (INVITED)

    by Qinghua Ding, Department of Geography, Earth Research Institute, University of California Santa Barbara; Michelle L?Heureux, Kirstin Harnos, Nathaniel Johnson, and Mitch Bushuk

Searching for Arctic temperature trends and extremes from original station records

    by Taneil Uttal, Polar Observations and Processes, NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory

New pathway of tropical influences on Arctic subseasonal warming events in the troposphere

    by Yen-Heng Lin, Department of Plants, Soils and Climate, Utah State University, Logan, UT; S.-Y. Simon Wang

Influence of the stratosphere on MJO-AO teleconnections in the subseasonal to seasonal (S2S) models

    by Laura M. Ciasto, NOAA/NWS Climate Prediction Center and Innovim LLC; Michelle L'Heureux, Kirstin Harnos, and Jason C. Furtado

Prediction of seasonal Arctic sea ice extent using the NMME

    by Kirstin Harnos, NOAA/NWS Climate Prediction Center and Innovim LLC; Michelle L'Heureux, Qin Zhang, and Qinghua Ding

Multi-week prediction skill assessment of Arctic sea ice variability in the CFSv2

    by Yanyun Liu, NOAA/NWS Climate Prediction Center and Innovim LLC; Wanqiu Wang, and Arun Kumar

5. DROUGHT AND PLUVIAL EVENTS

Subseasonal prediction of warm season drought in North America (INVITED)

    by Hailan Wang, NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office; Yehui Chang, Siegfried D. Schubert, and Randal D. Koster

Diagnosing extreme drought characteristics across the globe

    by Ehsan Najafi, NOAA Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Center (NOAA-CREST), City University of New York; Indrani Pal, and Reza Khanbilvardi

Future projections of U.S. drought and pluvial events characteristics

    by Elinor R Martin, The University of Oklahoma

Long-term variation of US land surface hydrological extremes

    by Yun Fan, NOAA/NWS Climate Prediction Center; Huug van den Dool

Improving CPC?s handling of long-term temperature trends

    by Stephen Baxter, NOAA/NWS Climate Prediction Center

Drought characteristics in two agro-climatic zones in Sub-Saharan Africa

    by Ayansina Ayanlade, Department of Geography, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria; Maren Radeny, John F. Morton, and Tabitha Muchaba

Probabilistic drought forecasts based on the Northern American Multi-Model Ensemble (NMME)

    by Li Xu, NOAA/NWS Climate Prediction Center and Innovim LLC; Kingtse C. Mo

6. SUBSEASONAL TO SEASONAL PREDICTABILITY

An assessment of subseasonal forecast using extended Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS)

    by Yuejian Zhu and Wei Li, NOAA/NWS Environmental Modeling Center; Eric Sinsky, Hong Guan, Xiaqiong Zhou, and Dingchen Hou

Investigating the Potential for Seasonal Snowfall Forecasts at CPC

    by Stephen Baxter, NOAA/NWS Climate Prediction Center Center

Improving the stable surface layer in the NCEP Global Forecast System

    by Weizhong Zheng, NOAA/NWS Environmental Modeling Center; Michael Ek, Kenneth Mitchell, Helin Wei, and Jesse Meng

7. CLIMATE DIAGNOSTICS, PREDICTION, AND ANALYSES

Changing snowpack-streamflow relationships in the Rio Grande Headwaters

    by David S. Gutzler, University of New Mexico; Shaleene B. Chavarria

Impact of high vertical resolution in an oceanic general circulation model on sea surface temperature simulation

    by Ying Zhang, NOAA/NWS Climate Prediction Center and ESSIC, University of Maryland; Wanqiu Wang, and Arun Kumar

Empirical teleconnection-based standards for U.S. temperature and precipitation predictability at Weeks 3 and 4

    by Daniel Harnos, NOAA/NWS Climate Prediction Center; Laura Ciasto, Nathaniel Johnson, Michelle L'Heureux, Cristiana Stan, and Adam Allgood

Extratropical-tropical interactions over Ethiopia

    by Endalkachew Bekele, NOAA/NWS Climate Prediction Center, and UCAR/CPAESS; Wassila Thiaw

Developing an NMME probability threshold based seasonal forecast tool

    by Mingyue Chen, NOAA/NWS Climate Prediction Center; Arun Kumar, and David DeWitt

Seasonal prediction of North American temperature and precipitation using the Calibration, Bridging, and Merging (CBaM) method

    by Sarah Strazzo, IMSG and NOAA/NWS Climate Prediction Center; Dan Collins, Andrew Schepen, Q.J. Wang, Emily Becker, and Liwei Jia

Correlation of regional sea-level variability mechanism, sub-mesoscale dynamics, climate variability and development of Sea-Level Variability Predicting Models (SLVPM)

    by Virendra Goswami, Environment and Peace Foundation, India

 

APPENDIX

Poster Session Presentations

2017 CDPW Photo Album