Session 11 |
| | IPCC TAR: Long-term Climate Variability and Change: Part 4 (Parallel with Sessions 12, JP3, and J4) |
| | Organizer: Thomas C. Peterson, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC
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| 8:00 AM | 11.1 | Heavy rainfall and convective cloudiness changes as indicators of intensification of the hydrological cycle
Pavel Ya. Groisman, UCAR Project Scientist at NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and B. Sun |
| 8:15 AM | 11.2 | Trends in temperature, humidity, and summertime extreme heat in China
Julian X. L. Wang, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and D. J. Gaffen |
| 8:30 AM | 11.3 | A Preliminary Examination of Regional Climate Trends in Atlantic Canada
Cindy N. Vallis, Environment Canada, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and N. Frigault |
| 8:45 AM | 11.4 | Spatial and temporal characteristics of extreme temperatures over Canada
B. R. Bonsal, AES, Downsview, ON, Canada; and X. Zhang, L. A. Vincent, and W. D. Hogg |
| 9:00 AM | 11.5 | Climate Change Indices Derived from Daily In Situ Data
Thomas C. Peterson, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and P. Y. Groisman, B. E. Gleason, and D. R. Easterling |
| 9:15 AM | 11.6 | Decreasing Cloudiness Over China: An Updated Analysis Examining Additional Variables
Dale P. Kaiser, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN |
| 9:30 AM | 11.7 | A quality assured comparison of the surface air temperature and ground surface temperature histories from two North American mid-continent boreholes
Paul E. Todhunter, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and W. D. Gosnold, Jr. |
|  | 11.8 | Estimating the sensitivity to climate change of the water budget of a mountain basin using a version of the Thornthwaite model
Allan Frei, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. L. Armstrong, M. P. Clark, and M. C. Serreze |
| 9:44 AM | 11.8a | Contribution of North Atlantic Intermediate and Deep water Masses to the Earth’s Heat Balance
Sydney Levitus, NODC/NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Antonov, T. P. Boyer, and C. Stephens |
| 9:59 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:29 AM | 11.9 | River discharge in a doubled carbon dioxide climate
Lydia Dumenil Gates, Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany; and S. Hagemann |
| 10:44 AM | 11.10 | Impact of a climate change on the hydrology of the French Rhône river
Pierre Etchevers V, Météo-France, Saint Martin d'Hères, France; and J. Noilhan, C. Golaz, E. Ledoux, E. Leblois, and C. Ottlé |
| 10:59 AM | 11.11 | Influence of Sea Surface Temperature, Tropopheric Humidity and Lapse Rate on the Annual Cycle of Clear-Sky Greenhouse Effect
Hua Hu, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and W. T. Liu |
| 11:14 AM | 11.12 | On the relation between complex and simple climate models
Arthur C. Petersen, Utrecht Univ., Utrecht, Netherlands |
| 11:29 AM | 11.13 | Transient greenhouse gas and sulfate aerosol forcing of regional climate change for the continental United States
Eric E. Small, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM; and L. Mearns and F. Giorgi |
| 11:44 AM | 11.14 | Changes in Northern Hemisphere storm tracks in the NCAR Climate System Model (CSM): Control run vs. doubled CO2
Michelle Shing-May Dunn, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Torrence |
| 11:59 AM | | Lunch Break
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