Session 6 |
| | Climate Change Assessment Activities of the IPCC and the CCSP(parallel with Session 7) |
| | Cochairs: Piers M. de F. Forster, University of Reading UK, Reading England; Dian J. Seidel, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD
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| 1:30 PM | 6.1 | Assessing climate change: A current perspective on progress and directions In IPCC working group 1
Susan Solomon, NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO; and D. Qin |
| 2:00 PM | 6.2 | The CLIVAR/PAGES/IPCC workshop on a multi-millennia perspective on drought and implications for the future
Kevin E. Trenberth, NCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 2:15 PM | 6.3 | Global climate sensitivity
Gerald A. Meehl, NCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 2:30 PM | 6.4 | Radiative Forcing by Well-Mixed Greenhouse Gases: Estimates from GCMs in the IPCC AR4  
William D. Collins, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Fillmore, V. Ramaswamy, M. D. Schwarzkopf, and Q. Fu |
| 2:45 PM | 6.5 | Radiative forcing of climate: expanding the concept
Daniel J. Jacob, Division of Engineering an Applied Sciences and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and A. C. Staudt |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
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| 3:30 PM | 6.6 | CCSP Decision Support Resources Development
James Mahoney, NOAA, Washington, DC; and R. Moss |
| 4:00 PM | 6.7 | Temperature trends in the lower atmosphere: understanding and reconciling differences
Thomas R. Karl, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| 4:15 PM | 6.8 | Status Report on the CCSP Synthesis Product: Aerosols Properties and Their Impacts on Climate
Phil DeCola, NASA, Washington, DC; and D. Albritton |
| 4:30 PM | 6.9 | Reducing the uncertainty in the North American carbon budget with atmospheric measurements and inverse transport models
David J. Hofmann, NOAA/CMDL, Boulder, CO; and L. Bruhwiler, W. Peters, and P. Tans |
| 4:45 PM | 6.10 | NARCCAP, North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program
Linda O. Mearns, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Arritt, G. Boer, D. Caya, P. Duffy, F. Giorgi, W. J. Gutowski, I. M. Held, R. Jones, R. Laprise, L. R. Leung, J. Pal, J. Roads, L. Sloan, R. Stouffer, G. Takle, and W. Washington |