GC24C:
Taking the Temperature of the Earth: Challenges, Trends, and Applications Across All Earth Surface Domains I


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Session ID#: 59178

Session Description:
Surface temperature (ST) is a critical variable for studying the energy and water balance of the Earth’s surface in addition to monitoring temperature trends related to climate change. There is an urgent need for the better understanding of in situ measurements and satellite observations to quantify ST as it changes from day to day, month to month, and over decadal time scales. To meet this need thhe EarthTemp network (http://www.earthtemp.net/) was established in 2012 to stimulate new international collaboration in measuring and better understanding correlations of different ST’s across the Earth’s surface including air, land, sea, lakes, and ice. In support of this we present the 6th EarthTemp session at the AGU with topics related to 1) progress in improving the quality of ST products through rigorous validation, 2) monitoring variability and long-term climate trends, and 3) science applications of ST data to detect and better understand Earth system behavior.
Primary Convener:  Glynn C Hulley, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Convener:  Darren Ghent, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Glynn C Hulley, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Chairs:  Christine M Lee, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Pierre C Guillevic, Planet Labs PBC, Pasadena, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Darren Ghent, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
Index Terms:

1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Arctic and Antarctic ice Surface Temperatures from AVHRR thermal Infrared satellite sensors, 1982-2015. (430477)
Gorm Dybkjaer1, Steinar Eastwood2, Rasmus T Tonboe3, Jacob Hoyer4, Anette L Borg2, Pia Englyst1, John Lavelle1 and Matilde B Jensen5, (1)Danish Meteorological Institute, København Ø, Denmark, (2)Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway, (3)Danish Technical University, Copenhagen, Denmark, (4)Danish Meteorological Institute, National Centre for Climate Research, København Ø, Denmark, (5)Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen East, Denmark
Satellite Thermal Monitoring of Urban Heat Waves (Invited) (413756)
Benedicte Dousset, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Honolulu, HI, United States
Using thermal and hyperspectral imagery to quantify land surface temperature variability and assess crop stress within California orchards (358056)
Sarah W Shivers, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Dar A Roberts, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, United States and Joseph P McFadden, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Asymmetry in Surface Temperature Trends in the Polar Regions (Invited) (398586)
Josefino C Comiso, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Analysis of Surface Temperature Trends of World’s Major Lakes and Relationships with their Basins’ Characteristics (440283)
Cho May Than1, Hamid Norouzi2, Abdou Rachid Bah3, Patty Arunyavikul4, Ronaldo Carhuaricra5 and Reginald Blake5, (1)LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City, NY, United States, (2)New York City College of Technology, CUNY, Brooklyn, United States, (3)CUNY New York City College of Technology, New York, United States, (4)CUNY New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, United States, (5)New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, United States

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