Session 6 |
| | Observed Climate Change: I |
| | Chair: Michael Palecki, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
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| 1:30 PM | 6.1 | On the reliability of the U.S. surface temperature record
Claude N. Williams Jr., NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and M. J. Menne and M. Palecki |
| 1:45 PM | 6.2 | Decadal changes in cloudiness over the Amazon forests: Observations and potential causes
Paola Arias, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX; and R. Fu, C. D. Hoyos, and W. Li |
| 2:00 PM | 6.3 | Decreasing trends in surface-observed total cloud amount over China: another effect of anthropogenic aerosol loading?
Dale Kaiser, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN; and Y. Qian |
| 2:15 PM | 6.4 | Anticipated trends in atmospheric water vapor and the challenge of quantifying them
David N. Whiteman, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and K. Vermeesch, R. Boers, L. Oman, and B. J. Soden |
| 2:30 PM | 6.5 | A study of Arctic cloud data and Arctic cloud variability
Neil P. Barton, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and D. E. Veron |
| 2:45 PM | 6.6 | The dynamical signal in stratospheric temperatures from satellites, 1979–2005: Long term changes and the pole-tropics out-of-phase relationship
Paul J. Young, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. Solomon, D. Thomps, S. Sherwood, and Q. Fu |