92nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (January 22-26, 2012)

Session 10A Multi-sensor/NWP Model/Ground-based Datasets on Multi-temporal Scale Variability and Climate Trends

Wednesday, 25 January 2012: 1:30 PM-2:30 PM
Room 256 (New Orleans Convention Center )
Host: 18th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography and Climatology/ First Joint AMS-Asia Satellite Meteorology Conference
Cochairs:  E. A. Smith, Center for Research on the Changing Earth System and Jianping Li, Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Papers:
  1:30 PM
A Fundamental Climate Data Record of Intercalibrated Brightness Temperature Data From SSM/I and SSMIS
Mathew R. P. Sapiano, Colarado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and W. Berg, C. D. Kummerow, and F. Weng
  1:45 PM
  2:00 PM
Discontinuities in Reanalysis Datasets: The Effect on Climate Trend Study and An Ongoing Homogenization Effort on MERRA
Junye Chen, Univ. of Maryland/ESSIC & NASA/GSFC/GMAO, Greenbelt, MD; and M. G. Bosilovich, A. D. Del Genio, F. R. Robertson, E. Kalnay, B. Carlson, and Y. Zhou
  2:15 PM
An Updated Thirteen-Year TRMM Composite Climatology of Tropical Rainfall and Its Validation
Jian-Jian Wang, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. F. Adler, G. Gu, G. J. Huffman, and D. T. Bolvin