HR: 16:30h
AN: A54A-05    [Abstracts]
TI: The SSU Data Set and its Utilization with Other Long Term Data Sets to Reveal Climatic Trends over the past 25 Years
AU: * Long, C S
EM: craig.long@noaa.gov
AF: NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Climate Prediction Center , 5200 Auth Road, Camp Springs, MD 20746 United States
AU: Miller, A J
EM: alvin.miller@noaa.gov
AF: NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Climate Prediction Center , 5200 Auth Road, Camp Springs, MD 20746 United States
AU: Lin, R J
EM: roger.lin@noaa.gov
AF: NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Climate Prediction Center , 5200 Auth Road, Camp Springs, MD 20746 United States
AU: Gelman, M E
EM: melvyn.gelman@noaa.gov
AF: NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Climate Prediction Center , 5200 Auth Road, Camp Springs, MD 20746 United States
AU: Wild, J A
EM: jeannette.wild@noaa.gov
AF: NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Climate Prediction Center , 5200 Auth Road, Camp Springs, MD 20746 United States
AU: Flynn, L E
EM: Lawrence.E.Flynn@noaa.gov
AF: NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Research and Applications, 5200 Auth Road, Camp Springs, MD 20746 United States
AB: The Stratospheric Sounding Unit (SSU) has been operationally sounding the upper stratospheric temperatures for the past 25 years on various NOAA Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites. The long term temperature data record is presented and examined. Challenges arising from changes of satellites and the precession of these satellites are examined. The extension of the SSU temperature data record utilizing the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A (AMSU-A) will be presented. Trends of temperatures at various levels in the stratosphere will be examined in conjunction with that of the long term SBUV(/2) total ozone and profile ozone data sets.
UR: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/
DE: 0300 ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE
DE: 0340 Middle atmosphere--composition and chemistry
DE: 0350 Pressure, density, and temperature
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly