HR: 08:30h
AN: H51F-01 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: The North American Monsoon Experiment: An integrated hydroclimatic research program for southwestern North America
AU: * Gochis, D J
EM: gochis@rap.ucar.edu
AF: National Center for Atmospheric Research, 3450 Mitchell Lane, Boulder, CO 80304 United States
AU: Higgins, W
EM: Wayne.Higgins@noaa.gov
AF: Climate Prediction Center, NWS/NCEP, 5200 Auth Road, Washington, DC 20233 United States
AB: The North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME) is a multi-year, multi-agency, international research program designed to improve the understanding and prediction of the warm season climate over southwestern North America. The multi-tiered structure of the NAME program is designed to highlight cross-scale interactions which modulate the regional hydroclimatic system. During the summer of 2004 an Enhanced Observation Period (EOP) was conducted in which strategic augmentations to regional land surface, oceanic and atmospheric observing networks were made. Measurements were concentrated in and around the Gulf of California, western Mexico and across the southwestern U.S. Data from the summer's activities have already shed light on a number of key regional scale processes controlling both variability and persistence characteristics of precipitation. Along with an overview of findings from the 2004 EOP, core elements of the NAME research program will be presented. Current and ongoing research in precipitation and streamflow interactions within the NAME region will be emphasized. The presentation will conclude with a discussion on plans for integrating hydrological and climate science research within the NAME program.
DE: 1833 Hydroclimatology
DE: 1854 Precipitation (3354)
DE: 1860 Runoff and streamflow
DE: 1884 Water supply
SC: Hydrology [H]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly