Session 5B |
| | General Climate Studies: Observations I |
| | Chair: Edward A. O'Lenic, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD
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| 8:30 AM | 5B.1 | Thermal Structure and Variability of the Tropical Tropopause Layer Derived from AIRS Observations 
Baijun Tian, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and E. J. Fetzer, D. E. Waliser, and B. H. Lambrigtsen |
| 8:45 AM | 5B.2 | AIRS-based atmospheric parameter climatologies: a high quality tool for monitoring short-, and longer-term climate variabilities and “trends”
Gyula I. Molnar, GEST/Univ. of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Susskind |
| 9:00 AM | 5B.3 | Global Climatology of Tropospheric CO from the Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (AIRS) 
Wallace McMillan, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; and L. Yurganov, K. Evans, and C. D. Barnet |
| 9:15 AM | 5B.4 | Estimation of top of the atmosphere global aerosol direct radiative effect using CERES, MODIS and MISR
Falguni Patadia, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and P. Gupta and S. A. Christopher |
| 9:30 AM | 5B.5 | Calculating cloud feedbacks from changes in temperature using daily satellite and reanalysis data
Neil D. Gordon, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and J. R. Norris |