87th AMS Annual Meeting

Session 5A: The diurnal cycle

Wednesday, 17 January 2007: 11:15 AM-5:30 PM
214B (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)
Chair:  Kenneth R. Sperber, LLNL
Papers:
  11:30 AM
Diurnal cycles of cloud forcing of the surface radiation budget
Pamela E. Mlynczak, SAIC, Hampton, VA; and G. L. Smith, P. W. Stackhouse Jr., and J. C. Mikovitz

  11:45 AM
Comparison of diurnal cycle of outgoing longwave flux from ERBE measurements with a climate model
G. Louis Smith, National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA; and A. Slingo and P. E. Mlynczak

  12:00 PM
Lunch Break (Cash and Carry available in the Exhibit Hall)

  1:45 PM
 
5A.6
Diurnal variability of the tropical upper ocean and its climate impacts

  2:15 PM
A Diurnal Radiative Forcing of Dust Aerosols over East Asia
Ji-Young Kim, University of Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and W. C. Wang

  2:30 PM
Modulation of Diurnal Cycle of Tropical Convective Clouds by the MJO
Baijun Tian, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and D. Waliser and E. Fetzer

  2:45 PM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

  4:15 PM
Influence of Sea-Surface Temperature on the Diurnal Cycle of the North American Monsoon System
Pingping Xie, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and W. Wang, V. E. Kousky, W. Shi, and W. Higgins

  4:30 PM
Diurnal Cycle Variations if Precipitation over the Americas
John E. Janowiak, NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and V. Kousky and R. Joyce

  4:45 PM
Variations in the daily cycle along the Gulf of California during NAME 2004
Leslie M. Hartten, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO; and L. M. Rodriguez-Manzanet, P. Zuidema, and R. H. Johnson

  5:00 PM
Simulations of Warm Season Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation over the Continental United States and Northern Mexico in General Circulation Models
Myong-In Lee, UMBC/GEST, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Schubert, M. J. Suarez, I. M. Held, A. Kumar, J. E. Schemm, N. C. Lau, J. J. Ploshay, H. K. Kim, T. L. Bell, and S. H. Yoo

  5:15 PM
Diurnal variations of upper and middle tropospheric humidity and their relations to convective activities over tropical Africa from Meteosat-8 measurements
B. J. Sohn, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and E. S. Chung, J. Schmetz, and M. Koenig

  5:30 PM