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11 IMSC Session Program
Monday, July 12, 2010
Plenary Session
08:50 – 09:00 Welcome by program chair, Gabi Hegerl
09:00 – 10:40 Session 4 - South Hall (20 min talk + 5 min discussion)
Historical reconstructions of climate fields based on instrumental observations
(Alexey Kaplan and members of GCOS SST/SI Working Group)
Chair: Alexey Kaplan
09:00 – 09:25 N. A. Rayner - Practical implementation of statistical
reconstruction methods in a non-ideal world
09:25 – 09:50 Michael N. Evans - Are there lessons for historical climate field
reconstruction from paleoclimatology?
09:50 – 10:15 Mark A Bourassa - Issues regarding the construction of satellite
and in situ gridded data sets for ocean surface winds and fluxes
10:15 – 10:40 Ricardo T. Lemos and Bruno Sansó - HOMER: A hierarchical
ocean model for extended reconstructions
10:40 – 11:00 Coffee Break - Pentland
11:00 – 12:30 Session 9 - South Hall
Bayesian statistics for climate research (Seung-Ki Min, Jonathan Rougier)
Chair: Seung-Ki Min
11:00 – 11:30 Pao-Shin Chu - Bayesian analysis for extreme events
11:30 – 12:00 Armin Haas - Softcore and hardcore Bayesianism in climate
research
12:00 – 12:30 Jonathan Rougier - A new statistical framework for analysing
multi-model ensembles
12:30 – 13:45 Lunch
Poster Session
13:45 – 14:45 - Poster Session (15)
Poster Session 4 - Pentland
Historical reconstructions of climate fields based on instrumental observations
(Alexey Kaplan and members of GCOS SST/SI Working Group)
1. John Kennedy and Nick Rayner - Towards the new version of the Hadley
Centre SST and sea ice data set - HadISST2
2. David I. Berry and Elizabeth C. Kent - New approaches to the construction of
gridded datasets for air-sea interaction
3. B. Meyssignac, A. Cazenave, R. Morrow, F. M. Calafat, M. Marcosa and W.
Llovel presented by M. Becker- Past sea level reconstruction and variability of
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