Session 8 |
| | Observed Variability and Change: Upper Air (Parallel with Session 7, 9 & Joint Session J2) |
| | Organizer: Tom Peterson, NOAA, Asheville, NC
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| 2:30 PM | 8.1 | Global temperature variations and trends above the surface
John R. Christy, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL |
| 2:45 PM | 8.2 | isparity of temperature trends (1979–99) of atmosphere and surface: can we trust the surface data?
S. Fred Singer, Science & Environmental Policy Project, Fairfax, VA |
| 3:00 PM | 8.3 | Detection and analysis of rapid temperature changes over a large pole-centered spatial domain
Lee Burns, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. R. Christy |
| 3:15 PM | 8.4 | The Comprehensive Aerological Reference Dataset (CARDS): Current Status and Future Objectives
Amy R. Holbrooks, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| 3:30 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 4:00 PM | 8.5 | Effect of volcanoes on the vertical temperature profile
Melissa Free, NOAA/ERL/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and J. K. Angell and A. Robock |
| 4:15 PM | 8.6 | Decadal variations in the tropical tropopause: Implications for stratospheric water vapor
Dian J. Gaffen, NOAA/ERL/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and R. J. Ross, J. K. Angell, and G. C. Reid |
| 4:30 PM | 8.7 | Interannual Variability and Long-Term Trends in Upper Tropospheric Humidity
John J. Bates, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO |
| 4:45 PM | 8.8 | Interannual-to-interdecadal changes in the atmospheric moisture over the global tropics
Igor I. Zveryaev, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and P. S. Chu |