A41L:
Advances in Weather and Climate Science Enabled by Atmospheric Profilers and Ground-Based GNSS/GPS Techniques II

Session ID#: 3058

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
3012 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  David K Adams, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico and Bjorn Lambrigtsen, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Convener:  David K Adams, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Mexico City, Mexico
Co-conveners:  Yolande L Serra1, Bjorn Lambrigtsen2 and Eric J Fetzer2, (1)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States(2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Yolande L Serra, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • AMS - American Meteorological Society
  • G - Geodesy
Index Terms:

0394 Instruments and techniques [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3329 Mesoscale meteorology [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3360 Remote sensing [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3374 Tropical meteorology [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A41L-01
Using GPS Water Vapor Measurements to Validate, Calibrate, and Improve Microwave Satellite Water Vapor Retrievals (Invited) (9784)
Carl A Mears1, Junhong Wang2, Hannah Kristine Huelsing2, Deborah K Smith1 and Frank J Wentz1, (1)Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA, United States, (2)SUNY at Albany, Albany, NY, United States
A41L-02
GNSS observations as a numerical weather prediction data source, a way forward to enhanced forecast quality; aims, challenges and plans for 2014-2017 (21552)
Witold Rohm1, Maciej Kryza2, Karina Wilgan1, Jan Kaplon1 and Marta Stanek2, (1)Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformatics, Wroclaw, Poland, (2)University of Wroclaw, Department of Climatology and Atmosphere Protection, Wroclaw, Poland
A41L-03
The North American Monsoon GPS TRANSECT Experiment 2013 (30300)
Rick A Bennett1, David K Adams2, Omar R Perez3, Carlos Minjarez4, Yolande L Serra1, Arturo Quintanar3, Luis Alatorre5, Alfredo Granados5 and G. Esteban Vazquez6, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)National Autonomous University of Mexico, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico, (3)UNAM National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, (4)Universidad de Sonora, Hermasillo, Mexico, (5)Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Júarez, Juarez, Mexico, (6)Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Sinaloa, Mexico
A41L-04
The Relationship between Sea Surface Temperature and Total Column Precipitable Water Vapor Across the Broader Caribbean (30916)
John Braun, Univ Corp Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States and Teresa Vanhove, Univ Corp Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
A41L-05
Cloud-Climate Interactions: Using Satellite Observations to Probe the Atmospheric Boundary Layer (Invited) (3375)
Joao Teixeira, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
A41L-06
New Insights into Convective Dynamics and Convective Cloud Vertical Structures from Synergistic Measurements by CloudSat, CALIPSO and MODIS. (Invited) (6224)
Zhengzhao Johnny Luo, City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, Hanii Takahashi, Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States, Suginori Iwasaki, National Defense Academy of Japan, Yokosuka, Japan and Graeme L Stephens, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
A41L-07
Thermodynamics in the Suppressed Phase of the Madden-Julian Oscillation Using a Multiplatform Strategy (26026)
Jason B Roberts1, Franklin R Robertson1, Carol Anne Clayson2 and Patrick C Taylor3, (1)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States
A41L-08
Cloud Radiative Effect by Cloud Types Based on Radiative Transfer Model Calculations and Collocated A-Train Data (26426)
Qing Yue1, Eric J Fetzer2, Mathias M Schreier3, Brian H Kahn2 and Prof. Xianglei Huang4, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)University of Michigan, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States
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