Session 3 Polar Atmosphere (Clouds)

Monday, 18 May 2009: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Capitol Ballroom AB (Madison Concourse Hotel)
Host: 10th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography
Chair:
Janet Intrieri, NOAA, Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO

Papers:
1:30 PM
3.1
Arctic snowfall measurments using a combination of lidar and radar observations
E. W. Eloranta, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and M. Shupe
1:45 PM
3.2
A 10-yr Climatology of Arctic Cloud Fractions and Their Impact on Surface Radiation Budget at Barrow, Alaska
Xiquan Dong, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and B. Xi, K. Crosby, C. N. Long, and R. Stone
2:00 PM
3.3
Microphysical parameterizations based on Convair-580 observations collected during ISDAC
Ismail Gultepe, Environment Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada; and E. Girard, P. Liu, J. W. Strapp, and Z. Vukovic

2:15 PM
3.4
Cloud thermodynamic phase over the Antarctic plateau from NASA IRIS data: a baseline for climate change study
Dan Lubin, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and V. P. Walden and P. Rowe

2:30 PM
3.5
The accuracy of satellite polar cloud cover change from satellite retrievals by use of orbital lidar comparison
James D. Spinhirne, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and W. D. Hart, S. P. Palm, and D. L. Hlavka
2:45 PM
3.6
Cloud occurrence and phase at Arctic atmospheric observatories
Matthew Shupe, CIRES/NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO; and V. P. Walden, E. W. Eloranta, T. Uttal, J. R. Campbell, M. Shiobara, and S. Starkweather
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