Session: Land and Ocean Observations (87th AMS Annual Meeting)

Thursday, 18 January 2007: 11:00 AM-2:30 PM

212B (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)

Chair: Christopher N. K. Mooers, RSMAS, University of Miami

Papers:

11:00 AM

10.1

Assessing the land albedo model of the new MODIS Aerosol retrieval over land Algorithm for urban scenes

Eduardo Hernandez, City College of New York, New York, NY; and M. M. Oo, L. Charles, B. Gross, M. Mihailidi, and F. Moshary

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (412.2 kB)

11:15 AM

10.2

Improved Land Products from Multiple Satellite Data through Data Assimilation

Shunlin Liang, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and H. Fang, J. Townshend, and R. E. Dickinson

11:30 AM

10.3

Marine wind analysis with the benefit of Radarsat-1 synthetic aperture radar data

Richard E. Danielson, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada; and M. Dowd and C. H. Ritchie

11:45 AM

10.4

The HF radar national server and architecture project

Don T. Conlee, NOAA/NWS/National Data Buoy Center, Stennis Space Center, MS; and J. Harlan, E. J. Terrill, L. Hazard, M. Otero, P. L. Spence, and A. R. Diercks

http://hfradar.ndbc.noaa.gov

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (414.9 kB)

12:00 PM

10.5

Operational evaluation of QuikSCAT ocean surface vector winds in tropical cyclones at the Tropical Prediction Center/National Hurricane Center

Michael J. Brennan, NOAA/NWS, Miami, FL; and R. D. Knabb

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.1 MB)

12:15 PM

10.5a

Lunch Break (Cash & Carry available in the Exhibit Hall)

1:30 PM

10.6

The Effect of Reabsorption of Chlorophyll Fluorescence and Elastic Scattering in Coastal Waters on the Efficacy of Retrieval Algorithms

Samir Ahmed, City College of the City University of New York, New York, NY; and A. Gilerson, J. Zhou, I. Ioannou, S. Hlaing, B. Gross, and F. Moshary

Poster PDF (264.3 kB)

1:45 PM

10.7

Long Baroclinic Rossby Waves Identified in the Tropical North Atlantic from ARGO Profiling Floats Using the Optimal Decomposition Method

Peter C. Chu, NPS, Monterey, CA; and L. M. Ivanov, O. Melnickenko, and N. Wells

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

10.8

NOAA's role in the expansion of the global ocean observing system for climate

Diane M. Stanitski, Shippensburg Univ., Shippensburg, PA; and M. Johnson

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM