Session 2 |
| Data Reliability and Usability |
| Organizer: Kelly Redmond, Western Regional Climate Center, Reno, NV
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| 10:30 AM | 2.1 | Quality assessment of monthly temperature data David A. Robinson, Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ; and J. Parlagreco |
| 10:45 AM | 2.2 | Quality Assurance of Monthly Temperature Observations at the National Climatic Data Center Matthew J. Menne, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and C. E. Duchon |
| 11:00 AM | 2.3 | Realtime Filtering Techniques of Air Temperature Data in Weather Stations Kenneth G. Hubbard, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and X. Lin |
| 11:15 AM | 2.4 | Identifying inhomogeneities in precipitation time series Edward I. Tollerud, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and B. G. Brown and T. L. Fowler |
| 11:30 AM | 2.5 | Oregon HCN Data—New or Old, Which One is Correct? George H. Taylor, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and A. Matzke and M. Mitchell |
| 11:45 AM | | Lunch Break
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| 1:15 PM | 2.6 | Data Mining: Gold or Pyrite Glen Conner, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY |
| 1:30 PM | 2.7 | Climate Data Continuity—What Have We Learned From The ASOS Automated Surface Observing System Nolan J. Doesken, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and T. B. McKee and C. Davey |
| 1:45 PM | 2.8 | Digitization of historical daily cooperative network data Nathaniel B. Guttman, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| 2:00 PM | 2.9 | Estimated Observation Times for Cooperative Stations Karen Andsager, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and K. E. Kunkel |
| 2:15 PM | 2.10 | Homogeneity Assessment of Canadian Precipitation Data for Joined Stations Éva Mekis, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and L. Vincent |
| 2:30 PM | 2.11 | A climatology of extreme hourly temperature variability across the United States: application to quality control. Daniel Y. Graybeal, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and K. L. Eggleston and A. T. DeGaetano |
| 2:45 PM | 2.12 | Inter-Comparison of Real-Time Rain Gage and Radar-Estimated Rainfall on a Monthly Basis for Midwestern United States Counties Nancy E. Westcott, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and K. E. Kunkel |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:30 PM | 2.13 | Comparison of Snowfall Measurements from Six Windshields Claude E. Duchon, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. G. Wade and J. A. Cole |
| 3:45 PM | 2.14 | Station density strategy for monitoring long-term climatic change in the contiguous United States Michael J. Janis, Southeast Regional Climate Center, Columbia, SC; and K. G. Hubbard and K. T. Redmond |
| 4:00 PM | 2.15 | Snow Cover Data for Applied Climate Studies David A. Robinson, Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ |
| 4:15 PM | 2.16 | The impact of unique meteorological phenomena detected by the Oklahoma Mesonet on automated quality control Chris A. Fiebrich, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK |