Session 5 |
| | Observed Climate Change: Part I (Room 608) |
| | Chair: Dale Kaiser, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN
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| 3:30 PM | 5.1 | Variability and trends in mountain snowpack in western north America  
Philip W. Mote, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and M. Clark and A. F. Hamlet |
| 3:45 PM | 5.2 | Variability and trends in United States snowfall over the last half century
Daria Scott, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and D. Kaiser |
| 4:00 PM | 5.3 | Trends in 30-year satellite record of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice extent
Donald J. Cavalieri, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and C. L. Parkinson and K. Y. Vinnikov |
| 4:15 PM | 5.4 | Historical variability in Arctic surface air temperature records
James E. Overland, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and M. Spillane and K. Wood |
| 4:30 PM | 5.5 | Trends in high clouds over the past 22 years
Donald Wylie, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and D. L. Jackson, P. Menzel, and J. J. Bates |
| 4:45 PM | 5.6 | Assessment of observational biases and changes in Canadian cloudiness
Xiaolan L. Wang, MSC, Downsview, ON, Canada; and F. W. Zwiers, V. R. Swail, and T. Yuzyk |
| 5:00 PM | 5.7 | Evaluation of cloud amount trends and connections to large scale dynamics
Todd D. Ellis, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and G. L. Stephens and D. W. J. Thompson |