Session 6 |
| | Observed Climate Change II: Data and Extremes |
| | Organizer: Jay Lawrimore, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
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| 8:30 AM | 6.1 | Estimating urbanization and land use effects on surface temperatures
Ming Cai, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. Kalnay |
| 8:45 AM | 6.2 | The FCC Integrated Surface Hourly Database, a New Resource of Global Climate Data 
J. Neal Lott, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. Baldwin |
| 9:00 AM | 6.3 | Evidence for a recent advance in the timing of a surface-air warming
Daria Scott, St. Cloud State University, Saint Cloud, MN; and T. J. Blasing and D. P. Kaiser |
| 9:15 AM | 6.4 | Complete Global Radiosonde Instrument Metadata Inferred by Examining Multiple Temperature and Humidity Time Series
Steven R. Schroeder, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX |
| 9:30 AM | 6.5 | Comparison of methods for adjusting inhomogeneous radiosonde temperature data
Melissa Free, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD |
| 9:45 AM | 6.6 | Comparison of Lower-Tropospheric Temperatures at Low and High Elevation Radiosonde Sites
Dian J. Seidel, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Free |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break in Poster Session Room
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| 10:30 AM | 6.7 | Recent climate change in the Caribbean
Thomas C. Peterson, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and M. Tayloe |
| 10:45 AM | 6.8 | Observed coherent changes in climatic extremes during 2nd half of the 20th century
Lisa Alexander, Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom; and P. Frich, P. Della-Marta, B. Gleason, M. Haylock, A. Klein Tank, and T. Peterson |
| 11:00 AM | 6.9 | Variability and trends in short-duration extreme events in the U.S.
Kenneth E. Kunkel, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and K. Andsager and D. R. Easterling |
| 11:15 AM | 6.10 | Trends and variability in winter cold and warm spells over Canada
Amir Shabbar, MSC, Environment Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada; and B. Bonsal |
| 11:30 AM | 6.11 | Very Heavy Precipitation over Land: Estimates Based on a New Global Daily Precipitation Data Set
Pavel Ya. Groisman, UCAR and NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. W. Knight and T. R. Karl |
| 11:45 AM | 6.12 | Hydro-climatic factors and socioeconomic impacts of the recent record drop in Laurentian Great Lakes water levels
Frank H. Quinn, NOAA/GLERL, Ann Arbor, MI; and R. A. Assel and C. E. Sellinger |