Joint Session 5 |
| | Global environmental observing systems including, but not limited to, the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), and Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS)—II (Joint between the 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology and the 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)) |
| | Cochairs: Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Silver Spring, MD; John R. Lincoln, US Navy/WMO (Ret.) and Consultant, Berryville, VA
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| 11:00 AM | J5.1 | Upper-air observations for climate: Rationale, progress, and plans for the GCOS Reference Upper-Air Network (GRUAN) 
Dian J. Seidel, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and H. J. Diamond, D. M. Goodrich, and P. Thorne |
| 11:15 AM | J5.2 | Updates on radiatively important atmospheric trace gas concentrations and trends in other parameters from the NOAA ESRL global network
Russell C. Schnell, NOAA/ESRL/GMD, Boulder, CO |
| 11:30 AM | J5.3 | Using THREDDS to “sew” observational data into the Observing System Monitoring Center
Kevin M. O'Brien, JISAO/University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and S. Hankin, R. Schweitzer, T. Habermann, J. Cartwright, J. Larocque, K. Kern, and M. Little |
| 11:45 AM | J5.4 | Contributions of the Global Ocean Observing System—what is the observing system telling us about the ocean and how is it helping to improve assimilating models
Christopher Meinen, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL; and C. Schmid, G. Goni, M. Baringer, R. Lumpkin, and S. Garzoli |
| 12:00 PM | J5.5 | Analyses and applications of the PACRAIN tipping bucket gauge dataset 
Michael D. Klatt, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. L. Morrissey and J. S. Greene |