88th Annual Meeting (20-24 January 2008)

Session 7A: General Climate Studies: Observations III

Tuesday, 22 January 2008: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
215-216 (Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Chair:  Baijun Tian, UCLA
Papers:
  1:30 PM
Satellite retrieval of land surface temperature: challenges and opportunities
Ana C. T. Pinheiro, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC (STG, Inc contractor), Asheville, NC; and J. L. Privette, J. J. Bates, and J. Pedelty

  2:00 PM
The annual cycle of surface radiation budget over Europe
Pamela E. Mlynczak, SSAI, Hampton, VA; and G. L. Smith and R. Hollmann

  2:15 PM
A Global Monthly Land Surface Air Temperature Analysis for 1948-present
Yun Fan, Office of Science and Technology, Silver Spring, MD; and H. van den Dool

  2:30 PM
The climate of 2007 in historical perspective
Jay Lawrimore, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. Heim, D. H. Levinson, A. Sanchez-Lugo, D. Wuertz, L. Love-brotak, and E. Godfrey

  2:45 PM
Does it rain more on weekends?
David M. Schultz, University of Helsinki and Finnish Meteorological Institute, FI-00101, Helsinki, Finland; and S. Mikkonen, A. Laaksonen, and M. B. Richman