Joint Session 4 |
| | Water Vapor Observations and Processes (Joint with 14th Symp. on Global Change and Climate Variations, 7th Symp. on IOS, Fifth Conf. on Atmospheric Chemistry, and Symp. on Observing and Understanding the Varability of Water in Weather and Climate) |
| | Organizer: Dian J. Seidel, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD
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| 1:30 PM | J4.1 | A Summary of the SPARC Water Vapor Assessment Report
Dieter Kley, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Juelich, Germany; and J. M. Russell |
| 1:45 PM | J4.2 | Cross-Tropopause Convective Transport of Water Vapor: Model Study, Satellite Observation, and Implications 
Pao K. Wang, Unversity of Wisconsin, Madison, WI |
| 2:00 PM | J4.3 | Variations in stratospheric water vapor and tropical tropopause temperatures
William J. Randel, NCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 2:15 PM | J4.4 | Cloud physics and water vapor in the evanescent convection altitude regime
Steven C. Sherwood, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and A. Dessler |
| 2:30 PM | J4.5 | Modeling water vapor and its changes in the tropical tropopause region
Andrew Gettelman, NCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 2:45 PM | J4.6 | Validating and Understanding the Water Vapor and Cloud Feedbacks in the NCAR CCSM
De-Zheng Sun, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO; and T. Zhang, J. Fasullo, and A. Roubicek |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibits open 1:30–6:30 p.m.)
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| 3:30 PM | J4.7 | A new look at cloud radiative forcing: Coupling with water vapor forcing
B. J. Sohn, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and J. Schmetz and V. Ramanathan |
| 3:45 PM | J4.8 | Spatio-temporal analysis and comparison of total precipitable water from different datasets
Arief Sudradjat, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and R. Ferraro |
| 4:00 PM | J4.9 | Global precipitable water variations since 1973 based on preliminary radiosonde instrument adjustments
Steven R. Schroeder, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX |
| 4:15 PM | J4.10 | Relative importance of the land surface latent flux and large-scale moisture transport in determining the onset of rainy season over Amazon
R. Fu, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA |
| 4:30 PM | J4.11 | Surface evaporation and the greenhouse effect over the intertropical oceans
Rémy Roca, LMD, Palaiseau, France; and A. Gershunov |
| 4:45 PM | J4.12 | Regional Hydrological Cycle and Weather and Climate in the Contiguous United States
Qi Hu, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and S. Feng |
| 5:00 PM | J4.13 | The atmospheric moisture budget in the Arctic—introducing and applying a consistent method to use radiosonde data
Reinhard M. Hagenbrock, Univ. of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; and M. Göber, F. Ament, and A. Hense |
| 5:15 PM | J4.14 | Moisture Variations Associated with the Initiation of Madden-Julian Oscillation
Bryan C. Weare, University of California, Davis, CA |