Session 12 |
| | Observed Climate Change: 2 (parallel with Session 13) |
| | Chair: Christopher W. Landsea, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL
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| 8:30 AM | 12.1 | The climate of 2004 in historical perspective  
David H. Levinson, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. R. Heim, S. Stephens, A. M. Waple, and C. Tankersley |
| 8:45 AM | 12.2 | Northern Hemisphere spring warming during the past five decades: links to snow cover losses.
Dan Cayan, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego /U.S. Geological Survey, La Jolla, CA; and M. Dettinger |
| 9:00 AM | 12.3 | Issues with identification of trends in 20th Century U.S. snowfall
Kenneth E. Kunkel, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and D. R. Easterling, K. T. Redmond, and K. G. Hubbard |
| 9:15 AM | 12.4 | Quantifying the uncertainties in the long-term trend of global land precipitation as observed in gauge-based analyses
Mingyue Chen, RS Information Systems, Inc., Camp Springs, MD; and P. Xie, J. E. Janowiak, and P. A. Arkin |
| 9:30 AM | 12.5 | Changes in precipitation distribution spectra and contemporary warming of the extratropics: implications for intense rainfall, droughts, and potential forest fire danger
Pavel Ya. Groisman, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. W. Knight, D. R. Easterling, D. Levinson, R. R. Heim, T. R. Karl, P. H. Whitfield, G. C. Hegerl, V. N. Razuvaev, B. G. Sherstyukov, J. G. Enloe, and N. S. Stroumentova |
| 9:45 AM | | Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
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| 11:00 AM | 12.6 | Rainfall changes in Hawaii during the last century
Henry F. Diaz, NOAA/OAR/CDC, Boulder, CO; and P. S. Chu and J. K. Eischeid |
| 11:15 AM | 12.7 | The Atlantic basin hurricane database re-analysis for the decades of the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s
Christopher W. Landsea, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL |
| 11:30 AM | 12.8 | Increasing Midwestern dew points: Is this a result of changing agricultural practices?
David Changnon, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL; and M. Sandstrom, R. Lauritsen, and M. Bentley |
| 11:45 AM | 12.9 | Changes in hourly surface relative humidity measurements and instruments in Canada during 1953–2003
Lucie A. Vincent, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and W. A. Van Wijngaarden |