A54C:
In Situ and Spaceborne Observations of Atmospheric Water Vapor and Temperature II

Session ID#: 3671

Friday, 19 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
309 (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Viviana Maggioni, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States and Eva Erzsebet Borbas, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
Primary Convener:  Isaac Moradi, JCSDA, College Park, United States
Co-conveners:  Holger Voemel, DWD, Tauche, Germany and Isaac Moradi, CICS/ESSIC, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Isaac Moradi, CICS/ESSIC, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • AMS - American Meteorological Society
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

0365 Troposphere: composition and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0394 Instruments and techniques [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Community Radiative Transfer Model for Inter-Satellites Calibration and Verification (8599)
Quanhua Liu, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, Nicholas R Nalli, IMSG, Inc., at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), College Park MD, United States, Alexander Ignatov, NOAA/NESDIS, STAR, College Park, MD, United States, Kevin Garrett, NOAA/NWS/OMD, Silver Spring, United States, Yong Chen, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Fuzhong Weng, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States, Sid Ahmed Boukabara, NOAA NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD, United States, Paul F van Delst, IMSG, Inc., Alexandria, VA, United States, David Neil Groff, IMSG, College Park, MD, United States, Andrew Collard, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, United States, Everette Joseph, Howard University, Washington, DC, United States, Vernon R Morris, Arizona State University, Associate Dean, New College ASU West, Tempe, AZ, United States and Peter J Minnett, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, Department of Ocean Sciences, Miami, United States
AIRS Water Vapor and Temperature Products (Invited) (2486)
Eric J Fetzer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Water Vapor and Temperature Measurements within the GCOS Reference Upper Air Network (GRUAN) (Invited) (5001)
Masatomo Fujiwara, Hokkaido University, Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Sapporo, Japan and the GRUAN Task Team on Radiosondes
Global Tpw and Uth Trends Inferred from 10 Years of Hiirs and MODIS Data (8831)
Eva Erzsebet Borbas, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, Paul Menzel, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies/University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States, Richard Frey, CIMSS/UW-Madison, Evansville, WI, United States, Andrew K Heidinger, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI, United States and Nicholas Bearson, University of Wisconsin Madison, SSEC/CIMSS, Madison, WI, United States
HAI: A novel airborne multi-channel hygrometer for fast multi-phase H2O quantification: Performance of the HAI instrument during the first flights on the German HALO aircraft (19528)
Volker Ebert1,2, Martina Krämer3, Armin Afchine3 and Bernhard Buchholz1,2, (1)PTB Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, Germany, (2)Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, (3)Forschungszentrum Juelich, Juelich, Germany
Retrieval of Temperature From a Multiple Channel Rayleigh-Scatter Lidar Using an Optimal Estimation Method (12219)
Robert J Sica1,2 and Alexander Haefele2, (1)University of Western Ontario, Department of Physics and Astronomy, London, ON, Canada, (2)Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Remote Sensing Group, Payerne, Switzerland