GC51C:
Planning the Climate Observing System of the Future II Posters

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Session ID#: 24231

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:

NASA's Carbon Cycle OSSE Initiative - Informing future space-based observing strategies through advanced modeling and data assimilation (251763)
Lesley Ott1, Piers J Sellers1, David Schimel2, Berrien Moore III3, Christopher O'Dell4, Sean Crowell5, Stephan R Kawa6, Steven Pawson7, Abhishek Chatterjee8, David F Baker9 and Andrew E Schuh10, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, (4)Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (5)University of Rochester, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rochester, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States, (8)GMAO, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)Colorado State University, CIRA, Fort Collins, United States, (10)Colorado State University, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, United States
Towards quantifying global aerosol radiative effects using lidar (252957)
Tyler Thorsen, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States and NASA LaRC HSRL Group
Characterizing the Trade Space Between Capability and Complexity in Next Generation Cloud and Precipitation Observing Systems Using Markov Chain Monte Carlos Techniques (256156)
Zhuocan Xu1, Gerald G Mace1 and Derek J Posselt2, (1)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
Satellite lidar and radar: Key components of the future climate observing system (263619)
David M Winker, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
A Climate Benchmark of Upper Air Temperature Observations from GNSS Radio Occultation (280288)
Chi O Ao, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Anthony J Mannucci, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Stephen Sylvain Leroy, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc., Lexington, MA, United States and Olga P Verkhoglyadova, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Climate Observing Systems: Where are we and where do we need to be in the future (280442)
Howard J Diamond, NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, Silver Spring, United States and Bruce Baker, NOAA/ARL/ATDD, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Observationally-based Metrics of Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemical Variables are Essential for Evaluating Earth System Model Projections (291896)
Joellen L Russell, University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, Jorge L Sarmiento, Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton, NJ, United States and Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling Team
Long Term Monitoring of Atmospheric Composition at NOAA – Driving Science with 60 Year-old Records (228885)
James H Butler, NOAA/ESRL Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO, United States and Scientists and Technicians of NOAA's Global Monitoring Division

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