Session 4a |
| Detection and Adjustment of Non-climatic Biases in Observed Data (Parallel with Session 4B) |
| Organizer: David R. Easterling, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC
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| 3:30 PM | 4a.1 | Errors in daily minimum and maximum air temperature induced by observation time Michael J. Janis, Southeast Regional Climate Center, Columbia, SC |
| 3:50 PM | 4a.2 | Time of observation and estimation of daily solar radiation for the Northern Great Plains Rezaul Mahmood, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska; and K. G. Hubbard |
| 4:10 PM | 4a.3 | A method to estimate missing daily extreme temperatures Robert J. Allen, Northeast Regional Climate Center, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY; and A. T. DeGaetano |
| 4:30 PM | 4a.4 | Homogenized daily temperatures for trend analyses in extremes over Canada Lucie A. Vincent, MSC, Downsview, ON, Canada; and X. Zhang, B. R. Bonsal, and W. D. Hogg |
| 4:50 PM | 4a.5 | Latitudinal and Seasonal Dependent Zenith Angle Corrections for Geostationary Satellite IR Brightness Temperatures Robert J. Joyce, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Washington, DC; and J. Janowiak and G. Huffman |