Session 12 Precipitation Analysis: Satellite and Surface (Parallel with Sessions 10 & 11)

Wednesday, 17 January 2001: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Host: 12th Symposium on Global Change Studies and Climate Variations
Organizer:
Jenni L. Evans, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA

Papers:
1:30 PM
12.1
Data and products available at the Surface Reference Data Center
Michael D. Klatt, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. L. Morrissey and J. S. Greene

1:45 PM
12.2
Global Precipitation: A 50-Year Analysis Based on Interpolation and Reconstruction of Gauge Observations
Mingyue Chen, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and P. Xie, J. E. Janowiak, and P. A. Arkin

2:00 PM
12.3
Interannual variability of tropical precipitation: how well do climate models agree with current satellite estimates?
Franklin R. Robertson, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and S. Marshall, J. Roads, R. J. Oglesby, and D. Fitzjarrald

2:15 PM
12.4
2:30 PM
12.5
Space-Time Characteristics of Rainfall Diurnal Variations
Song Yang, JCET/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and C. Kummerow, W. Olson, and E. Smith

2:45 PM
12.6
Variability and Mean States of rainfall in West Africa (1998-2000) as inferred from TRMM PR: Vertical Cross Sections
Gregory S. Jenkins, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and S. C. Walford

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