Session 7 |
| | Data Reliability, Quality Assessment and Usability (Room 619/620) |
| | Cochairs: Christopher Daly, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; Kelly T. Redmond, DRI, Reno, NV
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| 1:30 PM | 7.1 | Toward an automated tool for detecting relationship changes within series of observations  
Derek S. Arndt, Oklahoma Climatological Survey and Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. T. Redmond |
| 1:45 PM | 7.2 | New techniques in quality assurance of hourly meteorological data: Resolving multiple flags through a decision tree
Daniel Y. Graybeal, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and A. T. DeGaetano and K. L. Eggleston |
| 2:00 PM | 7.3 | A Probabilistic-Spatial Approach to the Quality Control of Climate Observations
Christopher Daly, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and W. Gibson, M. Doggett, J. Smith, and G. Taylor |
| 2:15 PM | 7.4 | The Value of a Quality Assurance Meteorologist
Janet E. Martinez, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and C. A. Fiebrich and M. A. Shafer |
| 2:30 PM | 7.5 | Data quality assessment: Why we need to share
Nathaniel B. Guttman, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| 2:45 PM | 7.6 | Quality control of pre-1948 cooperative observer network data
Kenneth E. Kunkel, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and D. R. Easterling, K. Hubbard, K. Redmond, K. Andsager, M. Kruk, and M. Spinar |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
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| 3:30 PM | 7.7 | Climate Database Modernization Program: Pre-20th Century task—key climate observations recorded since the founding of America, 1700's–1800's
Karen Andsager, Midwestern Regional Climate Center, Champaign, IL; and T. Ross, M. C. Kruk, and M. L. Spinar |
| 3:45 PM | 7.8 | The quality control of the Integrated Surface Hourly database
J. Neal Lott, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| 4:00 PM | 7.9 | A comparison of methods for the identification of steps in temperature series: an overview
Lucie A. Vincent, MSC, Downsview, ON, Canada; and J. F. Ducré-Robitaille and G. Boulet |
| 4:15 PM | 7.10 | Using Collocated Observations to Assess Secular Trends in the Quality of Observations and Re-analysis Data
Edmund K. M. Chang, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY |
| 4:30 PM | 7.11 | The impact of precipitaton frequency on gaugesite monitoring algorithms
Barbara G. Brown, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and E. I. Tollerud and T. L. Fowler |
| 4:45 PM | 7.12 | Derivation of an improved snow water equivalent adjustment factor map for application on snowfall ruler measurements in Canada
Éva Mekis, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and R. Hopkinson |
| 5:00 PM | 7.13 | Ensuring Quality Snow Observations at LCD Stations
Andy Horvitz, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Lawrimore, R. Leffler, R. Stone, T. Townsend, A. Dunham, N. Doesken, and K. T. Redmond |
| 5:15 PM | 7.14 | Nineteenth Century Weather Observers: A Whodunit
Glen Conner, Western Kentucky Univ., Bowling Green, KY |