Session 11 Climate Forcing (Parallel with Sessions 10 & 12)

Wednesday, 17 January 2001: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Host: 12th Symposium on Global Change Studies and Climate Variations
Organizer:
Bruce Baker, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC

Papers:
1:30 PM
11.1
Top of Atmosphere Radiant Fluxes and Climate Classification
Anne C. Wilber, AS&M, Hampton, VA; and G. L. Smith and P. W. Stackhouse Jr.

1:45 PM
11.2
Interannual Variance of Earth Radiation
Kathryn A. Bush, SAIC, Hampton, VA; and G. L. Smith and T. D. Bess

2:00 PM
11.3
An apparent multi-decadal trend in shortwave cloud forcing over the tropical Pacific
Richard C. J. Somerville, SIO/University of California, La Jolla, CA; and G. L. Potter, M. Kanamitsu, J. J. Hnilo, and J. Woolen

2:15 PM
11.4
Simulation of radiative transfer through broken cloud fields using a stochastic approach
Dana E. Lane, SIO/Univ. of California, San Diego, CA; and R. C. J. Somerville and S. F. Iacobellis

2:30 PM
11.5
Cloud and surface radiative properties over the Antarctic Plateau from AVHRR data
Dan Lubin, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and J. Berque and R. C. J. Somerville

2:45 PM
11.6
3:00 PM
11.7
Tropical cloud radiative forcing and the tropical Hadley/Walker circulation: a simple model
Baijun Tian, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and V. Ramanathan

3:15 PM
11.8
Aerosol Radiative Forcing Observed from Natural and Anthropogenic Sources
Andrew M. Vogelmann, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and V. Ramanathan

3:30 PM
11.9
Changes in cirrus cloudiness and their relationship to contrails
Patrick Minnis, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and J. K. Ayers, R. Palikondra, D. R. Doelling, U. Schumann, and K. Gierens

3:45 PM
11.10
The Effects of Amazonian Deforestation on Regional and Global Climate
David Werth, Rutger University, New Brunswick, NJ; and R. Avissar

4:00 PM
11.11
Influence of Phytoplankton on Climate
Karen M. Shell, SIO/University of California, La Jolla, CA; and R. Frouin, S. F. Iacobellis, and R. C. J. Somerville

4:15 PM
11.12
North Pacific Sea Ice and its Associated Atmospheric Variability
Uma S. Bhatt, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and S. Häkkinen

4:30 PM
11.6a
Coffee Break

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