Session: Data Reliability, Quality Assessment and Usability (Room 619/620) (84th AMS Annual Meeting)

Thursday, 15 January 2004: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM

Room 619/620

Cochairs: Christopher Daly, Oregon State University and Kelly T. Redmond, DRI

Papers:

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

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (182.8 kB)

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

Poster PDF (92.1 kB)

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

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (129.0 kB)

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

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (265.1 kB)

2:30 PM

7.5

Data quality assessment: Why we need to share

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

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (15.6 kB)

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

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (151.0 kB)

3:00 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

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.3 MB)

3:15 PM

7.8

The quality control of the Integrated Surface Hourly database

J. Neal Lott, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (69.4 kB)

3:30 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

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (40.9 kB)

3:45 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

Recorded presentation

4:00 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

Recorded presentation

4:15 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

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (293.5 kB)

4:30 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

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (71.0 kB)

4:45 PM

7.14

Nineteenth Century Weather Observers: A Whodunit

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

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (115.6 kB)

5:00 PM

7.6a

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

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