89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

Session 7A: Atmospheric Observations for Weather and Climate: AIRS/COSMIC

Tuesday, 13 January 2009: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Room 130 (Phoenix Convention Center)
Chair:  Joel Susskind, NASA/GSFC
Papers:
  3:45 PM
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
  4:15 PM
Univariate and multivariate assimilation of AIRS humidity retrievals with the Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter
Junjie Liu, University of California, Berkeley, CA; and H. Li, E. Kalnay, I. Szunyogh, and E. J. Kostelich

  4:30 PM
Use of COSMIC RO data to evaluate AIRS and ECMWF temperature profiles
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
Inter-instrument and Structural Uncertainty in Radio Occultation Data: Comparing COSMIC and GRAS Data and Retrievals
Christian Marquardt, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany; and A. von Engeln, Y. Andres, and F. Sancho

  5:00 PM
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

  3:30 PM
Cross validation of water vapor retrievals from GPS radio occultations, AIRS and radiosondes
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