88th Annual Meeting (20-24 January 2008)

Session 6B: General Climate Studies: Observations II

Tuesday, 22 January 2008: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM
217-218 (Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Chair:  Bradfield Lyon, International Research Institute for Climate and Society
Papers:
  11:00 AM
Intercomparisons of AIRS, AMSR-E, and CloudSat for improving GPCP high-latitude precipitation estimates
Eric J. Nelkin, SSAI and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. J. Huffman, R. F. Adler, D. T. Bolvin, J. Susskind, and J. M. Haynes

  11:15 AM
Assessment of high latitude GPCP Version 2 monthly and One-Degree Daily precipitation estimates using ground-based observations
David T. Bolvin, SSAI and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. F. Adler, G. J. Huffman, and E. J. Nelkin

  11:30 AM
A new global analysis of precipitation
Mathew R. P. Sapiano, Colarado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and T. Smith and P. A. Arkin

  11:45 AM
Precipitation reanalysis/reconstructions based on satellite and in situ data
Phillip A. Arkin, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and T. Smith and M. R. P. Sapiano