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Appendix A: Biographical Information on Panel Members
Pages 81-84

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... Data from the Spencer-Christy research project is used in both national and international policy analyses relating to global climate change and for validating climate models.
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... He has contributed to the development of global historical data bases for sea surface temperature and sea ice, as well as marine air temperature, mean sea level pressure, and radiosonde-based air temperatures with a view to the detection and attribution of climate changes and the forcing and verification of climate model simulations. He is a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society; a contributor to the 1990, 1992, 1995, and current IPCC Assessments; and a recipient of the Fitzroy Prize of the Royal Meteorological Society.
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... Santer is a physicist/atmospheric scientist at the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His research interests include identifying human effects on climate and evaluating the performance of global climate models.
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... His research focuses on radiative transfer models that relate satellite observations to geophysical parameters, with the objective of providing reliable geophysical data sets to the earth science community. He is currently working on satellite-derived decadal time series of atmospheric moisture and temperature, the measurement of sea-surface temperature through clouds, and advanced microwave sensor designs for climatological studies.
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  • american meteorological
  • geophysical union
  • climate models
  • climate variability
  • satellite microwave

  • global temperature
  • microwave remote
  • radiative transfer
  • special award
  • planetary atmospheres

  • royal meteorological
  • temperature monitoring
  • sea surface
  • microwave data
  • ecmwf reanalysis

  • temperature characteristics
  • longterm monitoring
  • atmospheric moisture
  • policy analyses
  • honorary fellow

  • providing reliable
  • surface temperature
  • fitzroy prize
  • various temperature
  • surface data

  • commerce bronze
  • including analyses
  • marine air
  • air temperatures
  • sensor designs


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