Joint Session 2 |
| 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)- Part II (Joint between the 26th Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology and the 14th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the 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 | J2.1 | Quality assurance of PACRAIN tipping bucket gauge data Michael D. Klatt, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. S. Greene and M. L. Morrissey |
| 11:15 AM | J2.2 | Climate observations and seasonal rainfall forecasting in the Pacific Islands Dean Solofa, SPREP, Apia, Samoa; and M. Morrissey and S. Postawko |
| 11:30 AM | J2.3 | The Tropical Atmosphere Ocean Array (TAO) for the 21st Century Landry J. Bernard III, NOAA/NDBC, Stennis Space Center, MS; and R. Bouchard, L. A. LeBlanc, R. Crout, J. Zhou, K. J. Kern, D. C. Petraitis, and C. C. Teng |
| 11:45 AM | J2.4 | Effect of the Earth Science Decadal Survey on NASA and NOAA—Three Years Later Randall G. Bass, ITT Corp, Herndon, VA; and R. Fitzhugh and L. Jairam |
| 12:00 PM | J2.5 | Observing the climate for development William E. Westermeyer, Global Climate Observing System Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland |