Session 16 Observed Variability and Change: Surface Part II (Parallel with Session 15 & Joint Session J1)

Thursday, 18 January 2001: 9:00 AM-11:44 AM
Host: 12th Symposium on Global Change Studies and Climate Variations
Organizer:
Jay H. Lawrimore, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC

Papers:
9:00 AM
16.1
Global warming and the surface air temperature trend in polar regions
Petr Chylek, NOAA/ERL/ARL and Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada; and G. Lesins, E. C. Weatherhead, and J. DeLuisi

9:15 AM
16.2
9:30 AM
16.3
Decade-Scale Precipitation and Streamflow Variations in the Kansas-Nebraska Region
J. Garbrecht, USDA/ARS, El Reno, OK; and F. Rossel and J. Schneider

9:45 AM
16.4
Trends in Global Monsoon Circulations: Evidence for a Diminished Hydrological Cycle?
Thomas N. Chase, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. A. Knaff and R. A. Pielke Sr.

10:01 AM
16.6
Variability and Trends in the Hydro-Climatology of the Major Eurasian Arctic Drainages
Andrew J. Etringer, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and M. C. Serreze, M. P. Clark, R. G. Barry, and D. H. Bromwich

10:16 AM
16.7
Tropical cyclone precipitation and dry spell mitigation
Byron E. Gleason, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and D. R. Easterling

10:31 AM
16.8
Vegetation and Drought Monitoring of the Mongolia using Satellate and Meteorological data
Bayarjargal U. Yunden, Jacob Blaustein International Desert Research Institute, Sede Boqer, Midrashat, Negev, Israel

10:46 AM
16.9
The Contrast of Structure and Analysis of Cause for China¡¯s Temperature Fields in Two Periods During The Last 100 Years
Zhihong Jiang, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China; and Q. Tu

11:01 AM
16.10
Research on LFV of global and south-north mean temperature in last 150 years
Zhihong Jiang, Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China; and Q. Tu and N. Shi

11:16 AM
16.4a
Coffee Break

- Indicates paper has been withdrawn from meeting
- Indicates an Award Winner