Session: Climatology and Long-Term Studies (13th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography)

P6.1

Climate Data Records from environmental satellites

Sheldon Drobot, The National Academies, Washington, DC; and D. A. Robinson, A. G. Laing, R. G. Barry, J. Campbell, R. DeFries, W. J. Emery, M. Halem, J. W. Hurrell, R. Miller, R. B. Myneni, R. Somerville, P. Try, and T. Vonder Haar

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P6.2

The effects of orbital drift on spectral radiances from HIRS observations and GFDL climate model simulations

Darren Jackson, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and B. J. Soden

P6.3

Inter-satellite Calibration of HIRS Outgoing Longwave Radiation Data

Hai-Tien Lee, University of Maryland, Cooperative Institute for Climate Studies/ESSIC, College Park, MD; and A. Gruber and R. Ellingson

P6.4

CERES new generation of radiation budget data: an overview

Bruce A. Wielicki, LRC, Hampton, VA; and P. Minnis, N. G. Loeb, T. Charlock, D. Young, D. P. Kratz, and K. J. Priestley

P6.5

ISCCP B1 data at NCDC: A new climate resource

Kenneth R. Knapp, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. J. Bates

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P6.6

The NASA/GEWEX Surface Radiation Budget Dataset

Shashi K. Gupta, AS&M, Hampton, VA; and P. W. Stackhouse Jr., S. J. Cox, J. C. Mikovitz, and M. Chiacchio

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P6.7

View angle dependence of cloudiness and the trend in ISCCP cloudiness

G. Garrett Campbell, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO

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P6.8

Long-term Variability of Convective Cloud Visible Albedo from ISCCP Compared to VIRS/MODIS

J. Colleen Mikovitz, SSAI, Hampton, VA; and P. W. Stackhouse Jr., Y. Hu, B. A. Wielicki, S. J. Cox, and S. K. Gupta

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P6.9

Initial Trends in Cloud Amount from the AVHRR Pathfinder Atmospheres Extended Data-set

Andrew K. Heidinger, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI; and M. Goldberg, D. Tarpley, A. Jelenak, and M. J. Pavolonis

P6.10

Diurnal, seasonal, and interannual variations of cloud properties derived for CERES from Imager data

Patrick Minnis, NASA/LARC, Hampton, VA; and D. F. Young, S. Sun-Mack, Q. Trepte, Y. Chen, R. R. Brown, S. L. Gibson, and P. W. Heck

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P6.11

CLOUD DETECTION USING MEASURED AND MODELED STATE PARAMETERS

Yuhong H. Yi, AS&M, Hampton, VA; and P. Minnis, J. Huang, J. K. Ayers, D. R. Doelling, M. M. Khaiyer, and M. L. Nordeen

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P6.12

Satellite investigation of tropical cirrus lifecycle and relation to water vapor and deep convection

Zhengzhao Luo, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and W. B. Rossow

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P6.13

Global and monthly diurnal precipitation statistics based on passive microwave observations from AMSU

Frederick W. Chen, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and D. H. Staelin and C. Surussavadee

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P6.14

TRMM PR/TMI 6-yr rainfall difference over land in 3G68 dataset

Tetsuo Nakazawa, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and K. Rajendran and S. Surendran

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P6.15

The Relationship between TRMM Climate Rainfall Biases and the Synoptic Environment

Wesley Berg, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

P6.16

A 16-year climatology of global rainfall from SSM/I highlighting morning versus evening differences

Andrew J. Negri, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. F. Adler, J. M. Shepherd, G. J. Huffman, M. Manyin, and E. Nelkin

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P6.17

Intercomparison and diagnosis of Mei-Yu rainfall derived from satellite data

Yan Zhou, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and P. A. Arkin

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P6.18

Diurnal Cycle of Cloud Systems over Norht America as Observed by Satellite Infrared Data

Yelena S. Yarosh, Wyle Information Systems and NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and P. Xie, M. Chen, R. J. Joyce, J. J. Janowiak, and P. A. Arkin

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P6.19

Developing a climatology of convective precipitating patterns in Africa

Arlene G. Laing, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; and R. E. Carbone and V. Levizzani

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P6.20

Two MODIS aerosol products over ocean on the Terra and Aqua CERES SSF datasets

Alexander Ignatov, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD; and P. Minnis, N. G. Loeb, B. A. Wielicki, W. F. Miller, S. Sun-Mack, D. Tanre, L. A. Remer, I. Laszlo, and E. B. Geier

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P6.21

The influence of bottom topography on long Rossby wave propagation in the South Pacific Ocean

Angela M. Maharaj, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia; and P. Cipollini and N. J. Holbrook

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P6.22

The DISCOVER project: Release of the sea surface temperature product

Deborah K. Smith, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA; and F. J. Wentz, R. Spencer, S. Graves, and M. Goodman

P6.23

Intercomparison of Global Ocean Surface Latent Heat Flux Fields

Shu-Hsien Chou, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and E. J. Nelkin, J. Ardizzone, and R. Atlas

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P6.24

Do multiple peaks in the Radon Transform of westward propagating sea surface height anomalies correspond to higher order Rossby wave Baroclinic modes?

Angela M. Maharaj, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia; and P. Cipollini and N. J. Holbrook

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P6.25

Assessment of the TOVS-derived Moisture and Wind Profiles Over the Southern Ocean

Cheng-Zhi Zou, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA and Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Van Woert, C. Xu, and J. A. Francis

P6.26

Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Satellite-derived Clear-sky Atmospheric Temperature Inversions in the Polar Regions

Yinghui Liu, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Key

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P6.27

Snow and Sea Ice Angular Distribution Model from CERES Radiance Measurements

Seiji Kato, Hampton University, Hampton, VA; and N. G. Loeb and K. Loukachine

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P6.28

Satellite-derived Arctic Climate Characteristics and Recent Trends

Xuanji Wang, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. R. Key

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P6.29

A 6 year comparison of surface and satellite Arctic cloud properties

P6.30

Climate Data Records from Merged CERES and Geostationary Imager Data

David F. Young, LRC, Hampton, VA; and D. R. Doelling, B. A. Wielicki, T. Wong, L. H. Chambers, and D. F. Keyes

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P6.31

Long-term total solar irradiance (TSI) variability trends: 1984-2004

Robert Benjamin Lee III, NASA/LARC, Hampton, Virginia; and R. S. Wilson III and S. Thomas

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P6.32

Decadal Variability of Earth Radiation Budget Deduced from Satellite Altitude Corrected ERBE/ERBS Nonscanner Data

Takmeng Wong, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and B. A. Wielicki and R. B. Lee III

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P6.33

Climate monitoring with the HIRS outgoing longwave radiation data

Arnold Gruber, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park,, MD; and H. T. Lee and R. G. Ellingson

P6.34

Clear-sky narrowband albedo variations from VIRS and MODIS data

Sunny Sun-Mack, SAIC, Hampton, VA; and Y. Chen, R. F. Arduini, and P. Minnis

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Poster Session 6 Climatology and Long-Term Studies