Live at the conference, Day2 – Success

You know your presentation was successful when: 1) Nobody threw rotten fruit 2) People came up to me afterwards and said “I have photos I can get to you” 3)…

Live from the conference, Day 2 – Down to the wire

Ok the next session is starting in a few minutes, less than 2 hours from now I’m going to know if the work I and all of the volunteers at…

Live at the confrence, day 2 – coming up today

This afternoon there will be several presentations that embrace the measurement systems used for the near surface temperature and precipitation records. Of great interest to me is a presentation outlining…

Live from the Conference, day 2 – land cover and GCM's

I just watched a presentation Elsi Sertel from a university in Turkey showing how easy it is to introduce true land cover data into a climate model. Her study area…

Live from the conference, Day2

I’m sitting in a presentation by William R. Cotton, of Colorado State University where he’s talking about the effect of Urban Heat Islands (UHI) on precipitation. He’s making a convincing…

How not to measure temperature – part 30

Russ Steele is out on vacation and doing several surveys while traveling. This one below is from St. George, UT. Here we see an MMTS measuring the temperature near the…