David Skaggs Research Center, Room GC-402
325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305
May 17 and May 18, 2011
• 07:00 Registration Opens in GC-402 – lunch orders and posters collected at registration table
• 07:30 - 08:15 Morning Snacks – Coffee, tea, fruit, bagels & donuts served
| Session 1 | • Introduction, Keynote Address, and Setting the Stage — Chaired by Russ Schnell | Slides |
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| 08:15 - 08:30 | Welcome Jim Butler (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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| 08:30 - 09:00 | Keynote Address - Outlook for Long-Term
Fossil-Fuel Emissions David Rutledge (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA) |
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| 09:00 - 09:15 | CO2 Emissions, Climate
Change, and Human Development Pieter Tans (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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| 09:15 - 09:30 | A New Global Greenhouse Gas Observation
Initiative Bob Marshall (Earth Networks, Inc., Germantown, MD) |
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| 09:30 - 09:45 | How Observations of Atmospheric
O2 Concentration Can Inform Our Understanding of Land and Ocean Processes in a Time of Global
Change Ralph F. Keeling (Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA) |
• 09:45 - 10:15Morning Break
| Session 2 | • Halocarbons & Other Trace Species — Chaired by James Elkins | Slides |
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| 10:15 - 10:30 | Observational Constraints on U.S.
Emissions of Climate-Active and Ozone-Depleting Trace Gases from NOAA Air Sampling Networks Steve Montzka (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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| 10:30 - 10:45 | Review of Comprehensive Pole-to-Pole
Airborne Survey of Greenhouse Gases James W. Elkins (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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| 10:45 - 11:00 | National Institute for Environmental
Studies (NIES) Monitoring of Atmospheric Halocarbons Yoko Yokouchi (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan) |
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| 11:00 - 11:15 | Highlights from the UC-Irvine Global
Monitoring Program (1978-2010) I.J. Simpson (University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA) |
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| 11:15 - 11:30 | Urban Ambient Mixing Ratios of
Hydrochlorofluorocarbons in China Xuekun Fang (State Key Joint Laboratory for Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China) |
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| 11:30 - 11:45 | Long-Term Monitoring of Volatile Organic
Compounds (VOCs) in the Free Troposphere Above the UK Shalini Punjabi (Department of Chemistry, University of York, York, United Kingdom) |
• 11:45 - 13:00Catered Lunch Service – Outreach Classroom GB-124 (pre-payment of $10.00 required at registration table)
| Session 3 | • Aerosols & Atmospheric Radiation — Chaired by John Ogren | Slides |
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| 13:00 - 13:15 | Lidar Remote Sensing of Stratospheric
Aerosols and Comparison with Simulations from Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM)/Community
Aerosol and Radiation Model for Atmospheres (CARMA) Ryan Neely (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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| 13:15 - 13:30 | Recent Observed Variations in Background
Aerosol Optical Depth and Associated Direct Radiative Forcing Estimates E.G. Dutton (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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| 13:30 - 13:45 | Radiative Forcing Efficiency of the
Fourmile Canyon Fire Smoke Plume - A Near-Perfect Ad Hoc Experiment John A. Augustine (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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| 13:45 - 14:00 | Organic Compositions of Baseline Marine
Aerosol at Cape Grim, Australia Melita Keywood (Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization, Marine and Atmospheric Research, Aspendale VIC, Australia) |
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| 14:00 - 14:15 | Empirical Estimates of Cloud
Condensation Nuclei (CCN) from Field Observations Anne Jefferson (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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| 14:15 - 14:30 | Decadal Trends in Observed Analytical
Uncertainties for IMPROVE Elemental Data Warren H. White (Crocker Nuclear Laboratory, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA) |
• 14:30 - 15:00Afternoon Break
| Session 4 | • Ozone & Water Vapor — Chaired by Irina Petropavlovskikh | Slides |
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| 15:00 - 15:15 | Update on Stratospheric Water
Changes Karen Rosenlof (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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| 15:15 - 15:30 | Ozonesondes Show Record Low Stratospheric
Ozone in the Arctic in 2011 B. J. Johnson (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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| 15:30 - 15:45 | Twenty-Five Years of Ozone Soundings at
South Pole: An Assessment of Changing Loss Rates Birgit Hassler (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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| 15:45 - 16:00 | Measurement of Western U.S. Baseline
Ozone from the Surface to the Tropopause and Assessment of Downwind Impact Regions Owen Cooper (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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| 16:00 - 16:15 | Variability in the Distribution of Ozone
Over Land and Marine Regions in the Indian Region S. Lal (Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India) |
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| 16:15 - 16:30 | Long-Term Observations from 1982 to 2009
of Ozone in the Southern Ocean Marine Boundary Layer from Cape Grim, Tasmania 41°S Melita Keywood (Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization, Marine and Atmospheric Research, Aspendale VIC, Australia) |
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| 16:30 - 16:45 | Science Highlights at the Cape Verde
Atmospheric Observatory (CVAO) K.A. Read (National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of York, York, United Kingdom) |
• 17:00 - 20:00Poster Session (DSRC Cafeteria) with appetizers & refreshments
• 07:00 Registration Opens in GC-402 – lunch orders and posters collected at registration table
• 07:30 - 08:15 Morning Snacks – Coffee, tea, fruit, bagels & donuts served
• 09:45 - 10:15Morning Break
| Session 6 | • Carbon Cycle — Urban Emissions — Chaired by Arlyn Andrews | Slides |
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| 10:15 - 10:30 | Patterns and Variability in
Δ14C of CO2 in Northern Hemisphere Background Air H.D. Graven (Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA) |
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| 10:30 - 10:45 | Evidence of Emissions from Oil and Gas
Drilling Operations in Northeastern Colorado G. Petron (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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| 10:45 - 11:00 | Observations of
14CO2 at the Boulder Atmospheric Observatory (BAO) Brian LaFranchi (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA) |
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| 11:00 - 11:15 | Quantification of Anthropogenic Emissions
from an Urban Region: First Results of Time-Integrated Flask Samples from the Indianapolis Flux
(INFLUX) Project Jocelyn Turnbull (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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| 11:15 - 11:30 | Quantification of Emissions from Methane
Sources in Indianapolis Using an Aircraft-Based Platform Maria Obiminda Cambaliza (Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN) |
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| 11:30 - 11:45 | Identification of Methane Emissions in an
Urban Setting Eric Crosson (Picarro Inc, Santa Clara, CA) |
• 11:45 - 13:00Catered Lunch Service – Outreach Classroom GB-124 (pre-payment of $10.00 required at registration table)
| Session 7 | • Carbon Cycle — Observational Interpretation — Chaired by Pieter Tans | Slides |
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| 13:00 - 13:15 | Exploring the Recent Biennial Cycle in
Observed CO2 Growth Rate Using CarbonTracker Andrew R. Jacobson (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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| 13:15 - 13:30 | Can We Explain Recent Increases in
Atmospheric CH4? E.J. Dlugokencky (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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| 13:30 - 13:45 | Using CarbonTracker-CH4 to
Understand the Recent Methane Budget Lori Bruhwiler (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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| 13:45 - 14:00 | The Drivers of the CH4
Seasonal Cycle in the Arctic and What Long-Term Observations of CH4 Imply About Trends in Arctic
CH4 Fluxes Colm Sweeney (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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| 14:00 - 14:15 | The Isotopic Composition of Oxygen in
Atmospheric CO2 and El Niño: A New Constraint on Global Productivity L.R. Welp (Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA) |
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| 14:15 - 14:30 | Civil Aircraft for the Regular
Investigation of the Atmosphere Based on an Instrument Container (CARIBIC) Observations of CO2
Uptake During the Indian Summer Monsoon Carl Brenninkmeijer (Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany) |
• 14:30 - 15:00Afternoon Break
| Session 8 | • Carbon Cycle — Special Session — Chaired by Lori Bruhwiler | Slides |
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| 15:00 - 15:15 | Importance of Reliable Continuous Records
of Earth System Parameters T.J. Blasing (Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN) |
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| 15:15 - 15:30 | Assessment of the Long-Term Trend of
Turkey's GreenHouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Using the Mann Kendall Test Fatma Öztürk (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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| 15:30 - 15:45 | Using Data to Improve a Global Fire Model
for Use in Climate Models and Earth System Models Brian Magi (NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ) |
| Session 9 | • Carbon Cycle — Remote Sensing — Chaired by Lori Bruhwiler | Slides |
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| 15:45 - 16:00 | Progress in Remote Sensing of Carbon
Dioxide from Space - The ACOS Project Michael Gunson (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA) |
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| 16:00 - 16:15 | Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS)
Retrieval of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide (CO2) in Three Layers Edward T. Olsen (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA) |
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| 16:15 - 16:30 | NDACC Fourier Transform Spectroscopy
(FTS) Trace Gas Trends and the Revitalized Mauna Loa Observatory (MLO) FTS System James Hannigan (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO) |
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| 16:30 - 16:45 | Remote Measurement of Greenhouse Gases
Under Cloud With the Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI) Fourier Transform Spectomereter
(FTS) Instrument W.F.J. Evans (Northwest Research Associates, Redmond, WA) |
• Closing Remarks Dr. James H. Butler (NOAA/ESRL)
| • Carbon Cycle & Greenhouse Gases | |
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| P-1 | Oxygen-18 of Atmospheric
CO2: Decadal Trends and Climate Variability E.J. Zakem (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
| P-2 | A Low-Maintenance Drying System for
Ambient Air Greenhouse Gas Monitoring L.R. Welp (Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA) |
| P-3 | Comparison of Co-Located Air Samples at
Mauna Loa Observatory and CO2 Observations at Mt. Fuji A. Sunaga (National Institute of Environmental Studies (NIES), Center for Global Environmental Research (CGER), Ibaraki, Japan) |
| P-4 | Results from the North American Carbon
Program Midcontinent Intensive Regional Experiment T. Lauvaux (Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA) |
| P-5 | Northern Hemisphere Trends in Carbon
Monoxide: Effects of Changes in Anthropogenic Emissions and Biomass Burning Paul Novelli (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
| P-6 | Active Sampling AirCore (ASAC) for
Regional Trace Gas Sampling Surveys T. Newberger (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
| P-7 | INFLUX: Tower-Based Greenhouse Gas
Measurements and Flux Estimates in an Urban Environment Laura McGowan (Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA) |
| P-8 | Quasi-Continuous Methane Measurements at
Cherskii, Russia Molly J. Heller (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
| P-9 | How Well Do We Know δ13C
of Atmospheric CO2? Estimates of Uncertainty, Inter-Laboratory Comparisons, and
Calibrations to Carbonate Primary Standards Sylvia Michel (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
| P-10 | Identification of Urban Zones Related to
Carbon Emission Levels Using Moderate Resolution Nighttime Satellite Imagery From the International Space
Station: Preliminary Results Chris Elvidge (NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder, CO) |
| P-11 | Mid-Stratospheric Measurements of
CO2, CH4, and CO Using AirCore H. Chen (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
| P-12 | Flask Versus In Situ Results at
Tall Tower Sites B.M. Walsh (Science and Technology Corporation, Boulder, CO) |
| P-13 | A Multi-Year Record of Airborne
Continuous CO2 in the U.S. Southern Great Plains Sebastien Biraud (Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA) |
| P-14 | First Deployment of a New Mobile
Laboratory for Greenhouse Gas Attribution Studies Ray Bambha (Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA) |
| P-15 | Development of High-Precision Gas
Analyzers for Measurements of N2O, CO, CH4, CO2, and
H2O Doug Baer (Los Gatos Research, Mountain View, CA) |
| P-16 | An Approach for Estimating Multi-Species
Boundary Values for Air Entering the North American Domain A. Andrews (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
| P-17 | Inverting 13CO2 for
Terrestrial Carbon Fractionation in North America Caroline Alden (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
| P-18 | The New Picarro G2311-f Methane, Carbon Dioxide, and Water
Vapor Analyzer For Micrometeorological Applications Chris Rella (Picarro Inc, Santa Clara, CA) |
| P-19 | 2011 Tower Network Overview J.D. Kofler (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
| P-20 | The Atmospheric Demonstration Experiment
of the Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) O. Laurent (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de lEnvironnement (LSCE) , Gif-sur-Yvette, France) |
| • Halocarbons & Other Trace Species | ||
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| P-36 | Trends of Long-Lived Halocarbons, Nitrous
Oxide and Sulfur Hexafluoride Geoff Dutton (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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| P-37 | Global Trends in Atmospheric
SF6 Brad Hall (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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| P-38 | Airborne Measurements of Trace Gases
During HIPPO: Comparisons with Satellite Retrievals from ACE-FTS and Aura Instruments J.D. Nance (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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| P-39 | First Results from UCATS During the
GloPac 2010 Mission Eric J. Hintsa (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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| P-40 | Inexpensive Stratospheric Profiling as a
Basis of Stratospheric Transport Monitoring Program Fred L. Moore (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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| • Aerosols & Atmospheric Radiation | ||
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| P-41 | NOAA GMD Participation in the Eleventh
International Pyrheliometer Comparison (IPC-XI) September 26 - October 15 2011 World Radiation Center (WRC)
Davos, Switzerland Donald Nelson (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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| P-42 | A Proposed Solar Radiation and Aerosol
Optical Depth Network for the Continental United States Joseph Michalsky (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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| P-43 | Evaluation of Broadband Arctic Radiation
Measurements: Introducing Tiksi Observatory Nobuki Matsui (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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| P-44 | NOAA's Antarctic Ultraviolet (UV)
Monitoring Program: It's More Than Just UV Patrick Disterhoft (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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| P-45 | Typical Barrow Albedos Coupled with
Solar Irradiance (Io) Variability: A Sensitivity Study Gail P. Anderson (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory and Air Force Geophysics Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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| P-46 | International Filter Radiometer
Comparison Results Gary Hodges (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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| P-47 | The Effect of Measured Ozone Profiles on
Ultraviolet (UV) Photolysis Rate Coefficients in the Troposphere K. Lantz (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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| P-48 | Development, Testing and Performance of a
New Filter-Based Light Absorption Instrument P.J. Sheridan (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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| P-49 | Analysis of High-Altitude Aerosol from
Asia to Mauna Loa Elisabeth Andrews (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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| P-50 | Seasonal Aerosol Distributions at Summit,
Greenland: EC, OC, 14C and Individual Particle Analysis George Klouda (Material Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD) |
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| P-51 | Data Quality Explorations Using Duplicate
Measurements N.P. Hyslop (Crocker Nuclear Laboratory, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA) |
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| P-52 | Aerosol Properties and Direct Radiative
Effects Measured at a Representative Southeastern U.S. Site W.B. Beuttell (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC) |
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| • Observatories, Global Cooperative Measurements, & Instrumentation | ||
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| P-53 | Extending the Use of the UK Based
Research Aircraft to Provide a Long-Term Observation Platform James Lee (National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of York, York, United Kingdom) |
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| P-54 | Using Surface Weather Observations to
Reduce Atmospheric Transport Errors in Regional Inversions Elena Novakovskaia (Earth Networks, Inc., Germantown, MD) |
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| P-55 | Science at Summit Station,
Greenland: Long-Range Plan Katrine Gorham (CH2MHill Polar Services, Englewood, CO) |
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| P-56 | Correlation Between Cloud Cover Trends
and Surface Temperature Trends: A Comparison Between Barrow, Alaska and Tiksi, Russia Ludmila Matrosova (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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| P-57 | Global Atmosphere Watch Activities in
Kenya and Characteristics of Some of the Gas Species C. C. Okuku (Kenya Meteorological Department, Nairobi, Kenya) |
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| P-58 | Sonic Anemometer Angle of Attack
Errors John Kochendorfer (NOAA Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division, Oak Ridge, TN, USA) |
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| P-59 | The World Meteorological Organization:
The International Dimension of Weather, Water, and Climate Renee Tatusko (NOAA National Weather Service, Silver Spring, MD) |
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