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


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:
 
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

 
Complex Nature of Diurnal Variability of Precipitation on Both Global & Regional Bases Based on TRMM & CloudSat Satellite Measurements
E. A. Smith, Center for Research on the Changing Earth System, Tallahassee, FL; and S. Yang

 
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

 
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