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How satellite data are being used to advance our understanding of fundamental weather and climate processes in the atmosphere, oceans, land surface, and cryosphere, and will continue to improve our ability to observe, analyze, predict, and communicate weather and climate data at a new level of fidelity and timeliness

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Tuesday, 6 January 2015: 11:00 AM-12:00 PM
231ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 11th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the Third Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation )
Cochairs:  Derek J. Posselt, AOSS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and Steve Ackerman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Papers:
  11:00 AM
J6.1
A New View of Snowfall: A Multi-Year Global Snowfall Census from Spaceborne Radar
Mark S. Kulie, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and N. B. Wood, T. S. L'Ecuyer, and R. Bennartz
Recorded Presentation

  11:15 AM
J6.2
GOES Observations of Deep Convection in SRSOR with Mesoscale Atmospheric Motion Vectors: Can We Discriminate Between Ordinary and Supercellular Storms By Satellite?
Jason Apke, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. Mecikalski, C. P. Jewett, and L. Carey
Recorded Presentation

  11:30 AM
J6.3
Determining the Environmental Parameters that Govern the Power Law Distribution of Convective System Lifetimes in the Tropical Western Pacific (TWP)
Gregory Elsaesser, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and Y. Li, C. D. Kummerow, and R. E. Carbone
Recorded Presentation

  11:45 AM
J6.4
Using Satellite Observations to Understand Cloud-Climate Interactions: The Subtropical Cloud Transition
Joao Teixeira, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and M. Lebsock, P. Kalmus, G. Matheou, and K. Suselj

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