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Appendix C: Biosketches of the Committee's Members
Pages 121-124

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... He is currently Associated Editor of the Journal of Climate, has served as a member of the NOAA Council on Long-Term Climate Monitoring, and has been a contributing author for IPCC Scientific Assessment, 1995 and 1999. He served as a member of the NRC's Panel to Review NASA's Distributed Active Archive Centers (NRC, 1998)
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From page 122...
... and surface properties of the large ice sheets; the use of passive microwave data to produce a picture of the last 20 years of ice sheet surface conditions; and field measurements to control ice motion studies and measure surface conditions. The goals of this work are to understand the current contributions of the ice sheets to the climate system (such as sea level rise)
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... Rossow is with NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and has extensive experience in satellite remote sensing research, primarily as head of the Global Processing Center for the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project for the World Climate Research Program. His work focuses on the study of the properties and behavior of clouds, how changes in clouds alter the planetary and surface radiation budgets, and studies of the dynamics of cloud processes that produce feedbacks on Earth's climate.
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... A major and recent group effort has centered on the development of GIS and scientific visualization tools that help to link complex data sets and models of land surface and riverine processes. He received his Ph.D.
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Key Terms

  • sea ice
  • world climate
  • climate research
  • arctic ocean
  • surface conditions

  • ice motion
  • exchanges using
  • microwave data
  • snow cover
  • landscape ecology

  • david mcguire
  • research diagnosing
  • marine chemistry
  • michael steele
  • national snow

  • riverine processes
  • integrated indicators
  • cloud climatology
  • cooperative fish
  • datasets obtained

  • polar science
  • boreal regions
  • northern hemisphere
  • global climatology
  • unit leader

  • space studies
  • decadal data
  • senior oceanographer
  • interannual variability
  • active archive


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