Congratulations to Ana Zaknic-Catovic whose DPES Departmental Defence was successfully approved by the PhD departmental defence committee on July 6, 2020. Here is the information for her dissertation:
Her PhD thesis title: Theoretical Considerations of High-Frequency Air Temperature Variations and its Application to the Identification of Physical Heterogeneities in Canadian Temperature Time Series.
Theoretical considerations of high-frequency air temperature variations primarily address the representativeness of diurnal temperature extrema in climatological analysis and application and ask questions related to extrema characterization, causes of systematic temperature biases, and presence of physically caused heterogeneities in Canadian temperature time series.
The main objective of the thesis is to lay a theoretical foundation for the study of physical heterogeneities in air temperature samples and to offer a practical algorithmic solution for the separation of temperature time series into the radiative and advective temperature components.
The separation of twenty-five Canadian high-frequency air temperature samples into physically distinct, homogeneous air temperature components is attained based on knowledge of the Diurnal Temperature Pattern, which is controlled by the spatial configuration of the Diurnal Temperature Sample within the daily temperature-time space.
Once again, congratulations Ana!
