GC41F:
Planning the Climate Observing System of the Future I

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Session ID#: 32639

Session Description:
Climate observations have successfully addressed major environmental and societal issues over the last 150 years: from water availability to cryospheric changes to changing circulation. In this session we ask the questions: What are the current highest priorities for climate observations? How do we plan and evaluate proposed climate observations? What is the appropriate level of investment in future climate observations? We invite presentations that address innovative approaches to observations and offer insights into identifying what makes some observations more successful than others. This session is open to presentations from all disciplines including hydrology, atmospheric science, cryosphere, land surface, economics, metrology and communications.
Primary Convener:  Elizabeth C Weatherhead, U. Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Bruce A Wielicki, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States and V Ramaswamy, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
Chairs:  Bruce A Wielicki, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States and Elizabeth C Weatherhead, U. Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Elizabeth C Weatherhead, U. Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0394 Instruments and techniques [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
1694 Instruments and techniques [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4215 Climate and interannual variability [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
6304 Benefit-cost analysis [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Grand Challenges of WCRP and the Climate Observing System of the Future (Invited) (257702)
Guy P Brasseur, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
Continuing the Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Climate Data Record (260105)
Peter Pilewskie, University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, Greg Kopp, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States, Erik C Richard, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, Odele Coddington, University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, Thomas P. Sparn, University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States and Thomas N Woods, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States
Resolving the Aerosol Piece of the Global Climate Picture (209087)
Ralph A Kahn, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and The SAM-CAAM Science Definition Team
Continuity of Earth Radiation Budget Observations (242798)
Norman G Loeb, Wenying Su, Takmeng Wong and Kory Priestley, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
How Continuous Observations of Shortwave Reflectance Spectra Can Narrow the Range of Shortwave Climate Feedbacks (281191)
Daniel Feldman1, William Drew Collins2, Bruce A Wielicki3, Yolanda Shea4, Martin G Mlynczak3, Chaincy Kuo1 and Newton Nguyen5, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (3)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)NASA, Hampton, United States, (5)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Transforming Ocean Observations of the Carbon Budget, Acidification, Hypoxia, Nutrients, and Biological Productivity: a Global Array of Biogeochemical Argo Floats (264982)
Lynne D Talley1, Kenneth S Johnson2, Herve Claustre3, Emmanuel Boss4, Steven R Emerson5, Toby Kolohe Westberry6, Jorge L Sarmiento7, Matthew R Mazloff1, Stephen Riser8, Joellen L Russell9 and International and U.S. Biogeochemical-Argo Steering Committees, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, United States, (2)Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States, (3)CNRS, Laboratory of Oceanography of Villefranche, Villefranche/Mer, France, (4)University of Maine, School of Marine Sciences, Orono, United States, (5)University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States, (6)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (7)Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton, NJ, United States, (8)University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, United States, (9)University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
Monitoring the Carbon Cycle: Improving Our Ability to Proved Policy Relevant Information (Invited) (244460)
Lori Bruhwiler, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States

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