Session 8 Observed Variability and Change: Upper Air (Parallel with Session 7, 9 & Joint Session J2)

Tuesday, 16 January 2001: 2:30 PM-5:00 PM
Host: 12th Symposium on Global Change Studies and Climate Variations
Organizer:
Tom Peterson, NOAA, NESDIS/National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC

Papers:
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
3:30 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

3:45 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

4:00 PM
8.7
4:15 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

4:30 PM
8.4a
Coffee Break

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