Joint Session 4 |
| | Global Earth Observations (Joint between 11 IOAS-AOLS and 23 IIPS) |
| | Cochairs: Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Silver Spring, MD; John R. Lincoln, US Navy/WMO (Ret.) and Consultant, Berryville, VA
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| 1:30 PM | J4.1 | The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) and its Users: Fifteen Years On
John Zillman, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Vic., Australia |
| 2:00 PM | J4.2 | The Global Climate Observing System: Defining the requirements, addressing the needs
David M. Goodrich, Global Climate Observing System Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 2:15 PM | J4.3 | Systematic Observation Requirements for Satellite-based Products for Climate
Paul Mason, University of Reading, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and S. Bojinski |
| 2:30 PM | | Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
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| 4:00 PM | J4.4 | Improving the Operation of the GCOS Surface and Upper Air Networks
Richard K. Thigpen, GCOS Secretariat, Silver Spring, MD |
| 4:15 PM | J4.5 | Lead centers for global climate observing system data  
M. Lawrence Nicodemus, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and P. Alford |
| 4:30 PM | J4.6 | NOAA's Scientific Data Stewardship program: connecting essential climate variables to science questions and societal impacts for long-term information access
Bruce R. Barkstrom, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. J. Bates and J. Privette |
| 4:45 PM | J4.7 | Pacific Island Global Climate Observing System (PI-GCOS): Addressing Pacific island weather and climate issues through international cooperation
Dean Solofa, SPREP, Apia, Samoa; and S. Postawko and M. Morrissey |
| 5:00 PM | J4.8 | The PACRAIN/PI-GCOS automated rain gauge initiative
Michael D. Klatt, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. L. Morrissey and J. S. Greene |
| 5:15 PM | J4.9 | The U.S. Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) program: plans for high elevation and high latitude GCOS surface network sites based on the benchmark U.S. Climate Reference Network (CRN) system
Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Silver Spring, MD; and M. R. Helfert |
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