Session: Data Quality Control and Metadata (Joint with Applied Climatology, SMOI, and AASC) (15th Conference on Applied Climatology/13th Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation)

Thursday, 23 June 2005: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

South Ballroom (Hilton DeSoto)

Hosts: (Joint between the 15th Conference on Applied Climatology; and the 13th Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation )

Organizers:

Christopher Daly, Oregon State Univ., PRISM Group, Corvallis, OR and Glen Conner, Western Kentucky Univ., Kentucky State Climatologist Emeritus, Bowling Green, KY

Papers:

8:00 AM

J3.1

The Value of Weather Station Metadata

Janet E. Martinez, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and C. A. Fiebrich and R. A. McPherson

Presentation PDF (199.6 kB)

8:15 AM

J3.2

The Evolution of Station Histories

Glen Conner, Western Kentucky Univ., Bowling Green, KY

Presentation PDF (128.8 kB)

8:30 AM

J3.3

An End-to-End Quality Assurance System for the Modernized Coop Network

Christopher A. Fiebrich, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and R. A. McPherson, C. C. Fain, J. R. Henslee, and P. D. Hurlbut

Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (835.3 kB)

8:45 AM

J3.4

Surface Temperature Analysis from Historical Data Sets for the ASOS and COOP Networks

X. Lin, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and K. G. Hubbard

9:00 AM

J3.5

Standardizing the quality assessment of data: partnership activities between NCDC and RCCs

Nathaniel Guttman, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC

Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (20.1 kB)

9:15 AM

J3.6

Simulating Change—Testing COOP Network Precip Homogeneity Methods

Tressa L. Fowler, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. G. Brown and E. I. Tollerud

9:30 AM

J3.7

Adjustments for trace measurements in Canada

Éva Mekis, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada

Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (240.4 kB)

9:45 AM

J3.8

The effect of modernization of climate reference networks on continuity of daily maximum and minimum temperature observations

Ewa J. Milewska, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and L. A. Vincent

Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (46.6 kB)

10:00 AM

J3.9

Opportunities for improvements in the quality control of climate observations

Christopher Daly, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR; and K. T. Redmond, W. Gibson, M. Doggett, J. Smith, G. H. Taylor, P. A. Pasteris, and G. Johnson

Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (290.4 kB)