PaleoDynamics Presentations at the 2018 Fall AGU Meeting

December 06, 2018

The 2018 Fall AGU meeting is next week and there will be many presentations from our PaleoDynamics Group, affiliated colleagues, and collaborators.  Below is a chronological list of all our activities.

Kate Marvel, Ben Cook, Park Williams and Jason Smerdon: 20th-century emergence of a forced signal in global drought, Monday, 10 December 2018, 08:01-08:16, GC11B-01

Justin Mankin, Richard Seager, Jason Smerdon, Ben Cook and Park Williams, Will plants ameliorate or amplify drought risks under global warming? Monday, 10 December 2018, 11:05-11:20, GC12C-04

Sonali McDermid, Ben Cook, Justin Mankin and Park Williams, Evaluation of competing vegetation-hydroclimate interactions under elevated CO2 concentrations, Monday, 10 December 2018, 13:40-18:00, GC13G-1115

Arianna Varuolo-Clarke, Kevin Reed, and Brian Medeiros, Topographic Influences on the North American Monsoon, Monday, 10 December 2018, 17:45-18:00, A14F-08

Dan Bishop, Park Williams and Richard Seager, Fall wetting in the southeastern US driven by higher-intensity frontal precipitation, Tuesday, 11 December 2018, 13:40-18:00, A23H-2947

Richard Seager, Mark Cane, Naomi Henderson, Dong Lee and Ryan Abernathey, Recent strengthening of the tropical Pacific zonal SST gradient is a dynamically consistent response to rising greenhouse gases, Wednesday, 12 December 2018, 10:44 - 11:08, A33M-02

Toby Ault, Sloan Coats, Justin Mankin, Carlos Carrillo, Jason Smerdon, Scott St. George, Park Williams, Ben Cook, Flavio Lehner, Samantha Stevenson, and Nathan Steiger, Megadrought Risk in Low-Warming Scenarios, Wednesday, 12 December 2018, 13:40-18:00, GC33J-1502

Nathan Steiger, Jason Smerdon, Ed Cook and Ben Cook, ENSO forcing of Medieval megadroughts in the American Southwest, Wednesday, 12 December 2018, 13:55 - 14:10, PP33B-02

Park Williams, Ed Cook, Jason Smerdon, Ben Cook and Richard Seager, Twenty-first century megadrought in western North America: millennial context and anthropogenic contributions, Thursday, 13 December 2018, 09:00-09:15, H41C-05

Ben Cook, Richard Seager, Park Williams, Michael Puma, Sonali McDermid, Maxwell Kelley, Larissa Nazarenko, Climate Change Amplification of Natural Drought Variability: What if Ocean Conditions that Caused the Historic Mid-Twentieth Century North American Drought Occurred Again? Thursday, 13 December 2018, 09:30-09:45, H41C-07

Richard Seager, Tim Osborn, Yochanan Kushnir, Isla Simpson, Haibo Liu, and Jennifer Nakamura, The Hadley Cell and climate variability and change in Mediterranean-type climates, Thursday, 13 December 2018, 09:30-09:45, A41F-07

Seung Hun Baek, Nathan Steiger and Jason Smerdon, Parsing the dominant ocean influences on spatially widespread droughts in the contiguous US over the Common Era, Thursday, 13 December 2018, 09:00-09:15, PP41A-05

Richard Seager, Jennifer Nakamura, and Mingfang Ting, Mechanisms of drought onset and termination in the southern Great Plains, Thursday, 13 December 2018, 16:15-16:30, H44D-02

Bor-Ting Jong, Mingfang Ting and Richard Seager, Seasonal Evolutions of ENSO Teleconnections and Impacts on North America, Friday, 14 December 2018, 13:40-18:00, A53L-2652

Weston Anderson, Richard Seager, Walter Baethgen and Mark Cane, Climate-forced crop yield variability and synchronous crop failures, Friday, 14 December 2018, 16:30-16:45, GC54A-03

Smerdon and Ed Cook will also be convening the Climate of the Common Era session with co-coveners Kevin Anchukaitis and Kim Cobb.  The two oral sessions will be on Thursday, 13 December 2018, from 8-10 and 10:20-12:20 and the poster session will be from 13:40-18:00 on the same day.