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

Themed Joint Session 18 Innovative Methods of Processing, Integrating and Analyzing Observations From Satellites Part II

Wednesday, 25 January 2012: 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
Room 342 (New Orleans Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 16th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 18th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography and Climatology/ First Joint AMS-Asia Satellite Meteorology Conference; and the Second Conference on Transition of Research to Operations: Successes, Plans, and Challenges )
Cochairs:  Robert Atlas, NOAA/AOML; William M. Lapenta, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC and Elizabeth Nolan, Riverside Technology, Inc.
Papers:
  4:00 PM
Evaluation of Satellite Precipitation's Spatial Patterns with EOF Analysis and Shannon Entropy
Wei Chu, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA; and X. Gao and S. Sorooshian

  4:15 PM
A New Characterization of Mid-Level Clouds Using Satellite and Ground-Based Observations
Hongchun Jin, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and S. L. Nasiri, L. Riihimaki, and S. A. McFarlane

  5:00 PM
Adaptive Retracking of Jason-1 Altimetry Data for Inland Waters on the Example of the Gorky Reservoir
Yuliya Troitskaya, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia; and G. Rybyshkina, I. Soustova, and S. Lebedev

  5:15 PM
Routine Satellite Derived Product Monitoring and Validation From GOES, JPSS and GOES-R
William Straka III, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. H. Achtor, T. D. Rink, A. K. Heidinger, T. J. Schmit, and T. Jasmin