Session 2 |
| Climate Observations (Room 608) |
| Chair: Thomas C. Peterson, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
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| 9:00 AM | 2.1 | NWS Plans for Upper Air System Data Continuity Joseph Facundo, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and C. Bower |
| 9:15 AM | 2.2 | A new Radiosonde dataset for climate studies Imke Durre, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| 9:30 AM | 2.3 | Global large-scale precipitation: Seasonal and interannual variations in the merged analyses, reanalysis and NCEP/GFS model outputs  Pingping Xie, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and J. J. Janowiak, P. A. Arkin, and M. Chen |
| 9:45 AM | 2.4 | The next-generation PACRAIN database  Michael D. Klatt, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. L. Morrissey, J. S. Greene, and S. Postawko |
| 10:00 AM | 2.5 | Stratocumulus and climate: observations from EPIC 2001  Kimberly Comstock, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and C. Bretherton, S. Yuter, and R. Wood |