Session 4a Detection and Adjustment of Non-climatic Biases in Observed Data (Parallel with Session 4B)

Tuesday, 9 May 2000: 3:30 PM-5:10 PM
Host: 12th Conference on Applied Climatology
Organizer:
David R. Easterling, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC

Papers:
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

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