89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

Joint Session 13: Climate Monitoring and Studies

Wednesday, 14 January 2009: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Room 224AB (Phoenix Convention Center)
Cochairs:  Mitchell D. Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS and Deborah K. Smith, Remote Sensing Systems
Papers:
  8:30 AM
GOES-R Improvements for Climate Monitoring
Mitchell Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD

  8:45 AM
NOAA's approach to providing Climate Data Records (CDRs) within a new interagency initiative
Jeff L. Privette, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. J. Bates, T. R. Karl, B. R. Barkstrom, E. Kearns, and D. Markham

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sds/index.html

  9:15 AM
Assessing Uncertainties and Variability in Global and Regional Radiative Fluxes from the NASA/GEWEX Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) Release-3.0 Dataset
Paul W. Stackhouse Jr., NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and S. K. Gupta, S. J. Cox, J. C. Mikovitz, T. Zhang, and L. M. Hinkelman

  9:30 AM
Regional and Seasonal Variations in Marine Boundary Layer Cloud Properties from MODIS and GOES observations
Michael P. Jensen, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY; and A. M. Vogelmann and E. Luke

  9:45 AM
Application of an optically thin model to limb scatter data for retrievals of aerosol extinction profiles
D. E. Flittner, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and R. Loughman, D. F. Rault, R. McPeters, E. Hilsenrath, E. J. Llewellyn, A. E. Bourassa, and D. A. Degenstein