Chapter 2
Observations: Atmosphere and Surface
Coordinating Lead Authors
Dennis L. Hartmann
University of Washington
USA
Albert M.G. Klein Tank
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
Netherlands
Matilde Rusticucci
University of Buenos Aires
Argentina
Lead Authors
Lisa V. Alexander
University of New South Wales
Australia
Stefan Brönnimann
University of Bern
Switzerland
Yassine Abdul-Rahman Charabi
Sultan Qaboos University
Oman
Frank J. Dentener
European Commission, Joint Research Center
EU
Edward J. Dlugokencky
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
USA
David R. Easterling
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
USA
Alexey Kaplan
Columbia University
USA
Brian J. Soden
University of Miami
USA
Peter W. Thorne
NOAA and Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center
USA/Norway
Martin Wild
ETH Zurich
Switzerland
Panmao Zhai
China Meteorological Administration
China
Review Editors
Jim Hurrell
National Center for Atmospheric Research
USA
José Marengo
National Institute for Space Research
Brazil
Fredolin Tangang
National University of Malaysia
Malaysia
Pedro Viterbo
Instituto de Meteorologia
Portugal
Contributing Authors
- Robert Adler – USA
- Richard Allan – UK
- Robert Allan – UK
- Donald Blake – USA
- Owen Cooper – USA
- Aiguo Dai – USA
- Robert Davis – USA
- Sean Davis – USA
- Markus Donat – Australia
- Vitali Fioletov – Canada
- Erich Fischer – Switzerland
- Leopold Haimberger – Austria
- Ben Ho – USA
- John Kennedy – UK
- Elizabeth Kent – UK
- Stefan Kinne – Germany
- James Kossin – USA
- Norman Loeb – USA
- Carl Mears – USA
- Christopher Merchant – UK
- Steve Montzka – USA
- Colin Morice – UK
- Cathrine Lund Myhre – Norway
- Joel Norris – USA
- David Parker – UK
- Bill Randel – USA
- Andreas Richter – Germany
- Matthew Rigby – UK
- Ben Santer – USA
- Dian Seidel – USA
- Tom Smith – USA
- David B. Stephenson – UK
- Ryan Teuling – Netherlands
- Junhong Wang – USA
- Xiaolan Wang – Canada
- Ray Weiss – USA
- Kate Willett – UK
- Simon Wood – UK