Course Focus
The course provides an overview of the statistical methods used to interpret data sets in the atmospheric and oceanic sciences. This is a tools class: the objective is to provide a working knowledge of the statistical tools most commonly used in the literature. However, additional time will be spent on how to professionally and objectively present and review scientific results. (top) p-values and confidence intervals of normally distributed data (middle) North Atlantic Oscillation pattern and PC time series obtained from EOF anlaysis (bottom) frequency-wavenumber power spectra of brightness temperature (Fig. 1a of Kiladis et al. (2009); Rev. Geophys.)
Lectures
Tu Th 9:00-10:15 AM ATS West 121General Topics Covered
- Basic statistics
- Regression methods
- Monte Carlo techniques
- Singular Value Decomposition (SVD)
- EOF, MCA and CCA methods
- Power spectra of time series
- Filtering of time series