Session 7A |
| Atmospheric Observations for Weather and Climate: AIRS/COSMIC |
| Chair: Joel Susskind, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
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| 3:30 PM | 7A.1 | Cross validation of water vapor retrievals from GPS radio occultations, AIRS and radiosondes ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) A. J. Mannucci, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and C. O. Ao, E. J. Fetzer, B. A. Iijima, F. W. Irion, G. Manipon, B. D. Wilson, and T. P. Yunck |
| 3:45 PM | 7A.2 | Validation of AIRS retrievals of CO2 and comparison to chemistry transport models Moustafa Chahine, NASA/JPL, Pasadena, CA; and E. T. Olsen, L. Chen, X. Jiang, T. Pagano, and Y. Yung |
| 4:00 PM | 7A.3 | The impact of AIRS data, assimilated using an Ensemble Kalman filter, in WRF forecasts for the Central United States ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Brian J. Etherton, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC; and S. O. Holmberg |
| 4:15 PM | 7A.4 | Univariate and multivariate assimilation of AIRS humidity retrievals with the Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Junjie Liu, University of California, Berkeley, CA; and H. Li, E. Kalnay, I. Szunyogh, and E. J. Kostelich |
| 4:30 PM | 7A.5 | Use of COSMIC RO data to evaluate AIRS and ECMWF temperature profiles ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Thomas P. Yunck, Foundation for Earth Science, Pasadena, CA; and E. J. Fetzer, C. O. Ao, G. J. Manipon, B. Wilson, A. J. Mannucci, and F. W. Irion |
| 4:45 PM | 7A.6 | Inter-instrument and Structural Uncertainty in Radio Occultation Data: Comparing COSMIC and GRAS Data and Retrievals ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Christian Marquardt, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany; and A. von Engeln, Y. Andres, and F. Sancho |
| 5:00 PM | 7A.7 | Global Comparisons of Atmospheric Soundings in the Lower Troposphere from COSMIC Radio Occultation, Radiosonde, and ECMWF Analysis Shu-peng Ho, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. H. Kuo, W. He, D. Hunt, C. Rocken, W. Schreiner, and S. Sokolovskiy |
| 5:15 PM | 7A.8 | Interhemispheric coupling of large-scale atmospheric waves in stratospheric/mesospheric temperature at middle and high latitudes: COSMIC vs MLS-AURA observations ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Marianna G. Shepherd, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada; and S. P. Alexander and T. Tsuda |