GC53H:
Taking the Temperature of the Earth: Challenges, Trends, and Applications across all Earth Surface Domains II

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Session ID#: 15832

Session Description:
Surface temperature (ST) is a critical variable for studying the energy and water balances of the Earth surface, and monitoring the effects of climate change, and there is an urgent need for better understanding of in situ measurements and satellite observations to quantify ST as it changes from day to day, month to month. The EarthTemp network was established in 2012 to stimulate new international collaboration in measuring and better understanding ST across different domains of the Earth’s surface: air, land, sea, lakes, ice. This EarthTemp session is focused on 1) progress in improving the quality of ST products, 2) assessing variability and long-term trends, and 3) applications of ST data to detect and better understand Earth system behavior.
Primary Convener:  Glynn C Hulley, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Darren Ghent, University of Leicester, Physics & Astronomy, Leicester, United Kingdom and Simon J Hook, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Chairs:  Darren Ghent1, Glynn C Hulley2 and Simon J Hook2, (1)University of Leicester, Physics & Astronomy, Leicester, United Kingdom(2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Darren Ghent, University of Leicester, Physics & Astronomy, Leicester, United Kingdom
Index Terms:

1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1621 Cryospheric change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1631 Land/atmosphere interactions [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A Method to Assess Urban Surface Heat Islands using Hemispherical Radiometric Temperatures. (125464)
Michael A Allen1, James A Voogt1 and Andreas Christen2, (1)University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, (2)University of British Columbia, Geography / Atmospheric Science Program, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Lake Surface Water Temperature of European Lakes retrieved from AVHRR Data – Time Series and Quality Assessment (130331)
Stefan Wunderle1,2, Gian Lieberherr2 and Michael Riffler3, (1)University of Bern, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research and Institute of Geography, Bern, Switzerland, (2)Institute of Geography and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, (3)GeoVille Information Systems, Earth Observation Services, Innsbruck, Austria
2016 is the Warmest Spring Observed by AIRS (150216)
Jae N. Lee, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States, Joel Susskind, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Lena Fornito Iredell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, GES DISC, Greenbelt, United States and Young-Kwon Lim, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Recent Development on the NOAA’s Global Surface Temperature Dataset (150500)
Huai-Min Zhang1, Boyin Huang1, Tim Boyer2, Jay H Lawrimore3, Matthew J Menne3 and Jared Rennie4, (1)NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, United States, (2)NOAA National Centers for Environmenl Informatiotan, Asheville, United States, (3)NOAA National Centers for Environmenl Informatiotan, Asheville, NC, United States, (4)NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, United States
Estimation of Land Surface Temperature Under All Sky Conditions (151676)
Anand Inamdar, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States and Kenneth R Knapp, National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, United States
Global Surface Temperature Trends and Arctic Amplification (Invited) (165854)
Josefino C Comiso, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Assessing Recent Warming Using Instrumentally-Homogeneous Sea Surface Temperature Records (178900)
Zeke Hausfather, Berkeley Earth, Berkeley, CA, United States, Kevin Cowtan, University of York, York, United Kingdom, David Clarke, Independent Researcher, Montreal, QC, Canada, Peter Jacobs, George Mason University, Environmental Science and Policy, Fairfax, VA, United States, Mark Richardson, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States and Robert A Rohde, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
­How accurately do we know the temperature of the surface of the earth? (181700)
Shaun Lovejoy, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

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