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11 IMSC Session Program
15:45 – 16:00 Aloke Phatak, Harri Kiiveri, Carmen Chan and Bryson Bates -
Statistical downscaling and modelling using sparse variable
selection methods
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break - Pentland
Chair: Bruce Hewitson
16:30 – 16:45 Edmondo Di Giuseppe, Giovanna Jona Lasinio, Stanislao
Esposito and Massimiliano Pasqui - A functional data
approach for climate zones identification
16:45 – 17:00 Arthur M. Greene - Downscaling climate change projections of
Indian summer monsoon rainfall using a nonhomogeneous
hidden Markov model
17:00 – 17:15 Chiara Ambrosino, Richard E. Chandler and Martin C. Todd -
Controls on rainfall variability on Southern Africa: An analysis
based on generalized linear model
17:15 – 17:30 Guilong Li, Xuebin Zhang and Francis Zwiers - Construction
of high resolution monthly temperature scenarios for North
America
17:45 – 18:00 Xiaogu Zheng, James Renwick and Anthony Clark - Simulation
of multisite precipitation using an extended chain-dependent
process
14:30 – 17:45 Part 3 - Session 8 - St Trinneann
Climate Data Homogenization and Climate trend/Variability Assessment (Xiaolan
Wang)
Chair: Xiaolan Wang
14:30 – 14:50 Olivier Mestre, Victor Venema and COST-ES0601 “HOME”
Task Force - Intercomparison of homogenization procedures:
Results of COST ES0601 HOME experiment (invited, 20
minutes)
14:50 – 15:10 Richard Cornes - The London and Paris daily pressure series,
1692-2007: The development and analysis of long pressure
series (invited, 20 minutes)
15:10 – 15:30 Manola Brunet - Detecting and minimising the screen bias
from long temperature series recorded over Western
Mediterranean climates (invited, 20 minutes)
15:30 – 15:45 Paula Brown and Art DeGaetano - The influence of weather
conditions on daily/hourly inhomogeneity adjustments
15:45 – 16:00 Xiaolan L. Wang, Hanfeng Chen, Yuehua Wu, Yang Feng and
Qiang Pu - New techniques and software package for detection
and adjustment of shifts in daily precipitation data series
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break - Pentland
Chair: Xiaolan Wang
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