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Rights & Permissions Free Resources Display this book on your site! Related Titles Safety of Dams:Flood and Earthquake Criteria Flash Flood Forecasting Over Complex Terrain: With an Assessment of the Sulphur Mountain NEXRAD in Southern California Other Related Titles Estimating Bounds on Extreme Precipitation Events: A Brief Assessment (1994) Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources (CGER) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager . "Appendix: Symposium Agenda." Estimating Bounds on Extreme Precipitation Events: A Brief Assessment. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1994. Please select a format: Page 27   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. Appendix: Symposium Agenda PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF PROBABILITIES AND BOUNDS ON EXTREME PRECIPITATION EVENTS Thursday, 21 October 1993 Washington, D.C. 8:45 – 8:55 a.m. Welcome and introductions Peter Hobbs, CMAPR Chair James Smith, Study Leader 8:55 – 9:10 Why FERC cares about extreme precipitation events Fred Springer Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 9:10 – 9:30 Review of charge James Smith 9:30 – 10:15 Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP) John L. Vogel National Weather Service 10:15 – 10:30 Updated PMP calculations in regional studies Ed Tomlinson North American Weather Consultants 10:45 – 11:00 Differences between generalized and site-specific PMP estimates George A. Harper Yankee Atomic Electric 11:00 – 11:45 Hydrometeorology of extreme precipitation events Allen Bradley University of Iowa 12:45 – 1:15 p.m. Paleoclimatic data for estimating extreme precipitation events Katherine Hirschboeck University of Arizona Page 27 Front Matter (R1-R8) Contents (R9-R10) Executive Summary (1-4) Introduction (5-10) Discussion (11-18) Conclusions and Recommendations (19-22) References (23-26) Appendix: Symposium Agenda (27-28) List of Acronyms and Other Abbreviations (29-29)

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Estimating Bounds on Extreme Precipitation Events: A Brief Assessment Appendix: Symposium Agenda PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF PROBABILITIES AND BOUNDS ON EXTREME PRECIPITATION EVENTS Thursday, 21 October 1993 Washington, D.C. 8:45 – 8:55 a.m. Welcome and introductions Peter Hobbs, CMAPR Chair James Smith, Study Leader 8:55 – 9:10 Why FERC cares about extreme precipitation events Fred Springer Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 9:10 – 9:30 Review of charge James Smith 9:30 – 10:15 Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP) John L. Vogel National Weather Service 10:15 – 10:30 Updated PMP calculations in regional studies Ed Tomlinson North American Weather Consultants 10:45 – 11:00 Differences between generalized and site-specific PMP estimates George A. Harper Yankee Atomic Electric 11:00 – 11:45 Hydrometeorology of extreme precipitation events Allen Bradley University of Iowa 12:45 – 1:15 p.m. Paleoclimatic data for estimating extreme precipitation events Katherine Hirschboeck University of Arizona

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Estimating Bounds on Extreme Precipitation Events: A Brief Assessment 1:15 – 1:45 p.m. Satellite data for estimating extreme precipitation events Rod Scofield National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 1:45 – 2:15 Radar data for estimating extreme precipitation events Edward J. Zipser Texas A&M University 2:15 – 2:45 Tropical cyclones as extreme precipitation events Stephen Colucci Cornell University 3:00 – 3:45 Alternatives to PMP Mel Schaefer State of Washington 3:45 – 4:15 Previous NRC efforts Kenneth Potter University of Wisconsin 4:15 – 5:30 General discussion and leader's closing remarks James Smith

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