Session 4 |
| | Observed Climate Change in the Atmosphere and Oceans: Part 2 |
| | Chairs: Dian J. Seidel, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; Christopher W. Landsea, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL
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| 1:45 PM | 4.1 | Maximum and minimum temperature trends for the globe: an update through 2004 
Russell S. Vose, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and D. R. Easterling and B. Gleason |
| 2:00 PM | 4.2 | At what horizontal scale can significant surface warming be detected?
David J. Karoly, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and Q. Wu |
| 2:15 PM | 4.3 | Abrupt global temperature change and the instrumental record 
Matthew J. Menne, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| 2:30 PM | 4.4 | Rehabilitating the Canadian Climate Reference Network
Yves Durocher, EC, Downsview, ON, Canada |
| 2:45 PM | 4.5 | A comparison of the original United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) and USHCN v2
Claude N. Williams Jr., NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and M. J. Menne |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
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| 3:30 PM | 4.6 | Atlantic hurricanes and global warming: Observational evidence
Christopher W. Landsea, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL |
| 3:45 PM | 4.7 | Frequency, duration and intensity of tropical cyclonic storms in a warming environment
Peter J. Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and G. J. Holland, J. A. Curry, and H. R. Chang |
| 4:00 PM | 4.8 | How unnatural are the observed Tropical SST trends over the last 50 years ?
Cecile Penland, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO; and P. Sardeshmukh |
| 4:15 PM | 4.9 | Characterization of Changing Precipitation Regimes
John Hallett, DRI, Reno, NV; and R. Rasmussen |
| 4:30 PM | 4.10 | Global “warming holes” and regional land surface-atmosphere interactions
Zaitao Pan, St. Louis Univ., St. Louis, MO; and M. Segal, W. Gutowski, E. S. Takle, and C. J. Anderson |
| 4:45 PM | 4.11 | Recent rainfall trends across tropical West Africa: Observations and potential causes
Andreas H. Fink, Univ. of Cologne, Cologne, Germany; and P. Susan and K. Simone |
| 5:00 PM | 4.12 | Continued research on observed changes in cloudiness and air pollution over China and their relationships with other meteorological variables
Dale Kaiser, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN; and Y. Qian, R. S. Vose, and B. Sun |
| 5:15 PM | 4.13 | An algorithm to derive snowfall from snow depth observations
Alexandre Fischer, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and Y. Durocher |
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