Session 1 |
| | Opening Session: Climate Observations and Climate Change Detection |
| | Organizer: David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
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| 9:30 AM | 1.1 | Components of a Climate Observing System 
Kevin E. Trenberth, NCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 10:00 AM | 1.2 | Accounting for Effects of Volcanoes and ENSO in Comparisons of Modeled and Observed Temperature Trends
B. D. Santer, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and T. M. L. Wigley, C. Doutriaux, J. S. Boyle, J. E. Hansen, P. D. Jones, G. A. Meehl, E. Roeckner, S. Sengupta, and K. E. Taylor |
| 10:15 AM | 1.3 | A New Technique to Estimate the Diurnal and Seasonal Cycles of Climatic Trends, With Applications to Temperature and Sea Ice
Konstantin Y. Vinnikov, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and A. Robock, D. J. Cavalieri, and C. L. Parkinson |
| 10:30 AM | | Coffee Break in Poster Session Room
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| 11:00 AM | 1.4 | A General Bayesian Approach to Climate Change Detection and Attribution Using ECHAM3-LSG Scenario Runs and NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Observations
Seung-Ki Min, METRI, Seoul, Korea; and A. Hense, H. Paeth, W. T. Kwon, and J. H. Oh |
| 11:15 AM | 1.5 | Climate variations and its impact on trend detection
Julian X. L. Wang, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and K. C. Mo |
| 11:30 AM | 1.6 | Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover Extent and Global Warming: Observed and Simulated Variations
Konstantin Y. Vinnikov, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and A. Robock, D. A. Robinson, R. L. Armstrong, D. J. Cavalieri, C. L. Parkinson, R. J. Stouffer, T. L. Delworth, K. W. Dixon, A. J. Broccoli, J. M. Gregory, G. M. Flato, N. C. Grody, B. H. Ramsay, P. Romanov, and A. N. Basist |
| 11:45 AM | 1.7 | Evidences of Dominant Atmospheric Circulation Variability in the Context of Global Warming
Xiangdong Zhang, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and J. Zhu |