Spatiotemporal Data Analysis Workshop

Proposal presentation titles, Class of Fall 2006
[updated 12/6/06]

15 minute talks to begin at 1:00pm, Tree-Ring Lab West (Mathematics East) Seminar Rm. 20, Wednesday, Nov 29th, 2006.  For access to the powerpoint presentations please email the instructor for the userid and password.  See here for a list of presentations from Fall 2004.

Name
Dataset
Science Topic
Title
Abhishek Bhattacharya
Moberg and Jones (2003) global merged surface air temperature
Is there really a bidecadal oscillation in surface temperature (Elsner and Tsonis, 1991; Ghil and Vautard, 1991)?
Oscillation and warming trend in global temperature time series
Michael Cline
Palmer drought severity index (PDSI) reconstructions, northern Arizona
Connection between precipitation variability and cinder cone erosion in northern Arizona
TBA
Don Falk
PDSI, 500mb geopotential height fields
Great Basin climate and its influence on fire history
TBA
Gaiai Guo (visitor Chinese Academy of Sciences)
tree-ring chronologies from China/Tibet
patterns of variation in proxy records of the Asian monsoon
Tibetan Plateau tree rings and the Asian Monsoon
Steph McAfee
NCEP surface pressure (Kistler et al., 2001), Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) station precipitation (dataset?)
The Northern Annular mode and precipitation over western North America
The Northern Annular mode and precipitation over western North America
Carlos Minjarez
Viasala lightning data (unpublished?; ref?), North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR; Mesinger et al.,  2006)
patterns of lightning strikes and precipitation predictability
Lightning analysis over southern Arizona
Koichi Sakaguchi
downward longwave radiation flux (NCEP reanalysis; Kistler et al., 2001)
patterns of variation in DLRF due to global warming and water vapor redistribution
The dominant modes of downward longwave radiation
Patrick Shaw
Sea level height anomaly (TOPEX/POSEIDON)
origin of trends and variation in SLH anomaly
Global sea level rise
James Tamerius
850mb vector winds (NARR)
links between southwest US regional wintertime precipitation and wind anomalies
Extended EOF analysis of North American winter 500mb geopotential heights and 850mb winds in the southwest US


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