AT 655: Objective Analysis in the Atmospheric Sciences

Instructor: Prof. Elizabeth A. Barnes
Email: eabarnes .at. atmos.colostate.edu
Office Hours: 2:00-4:00 Wed, or by appointment

TA: Jingyuan Li
Email: jingyuan.li@colostate.edu
Office Hours: 12:00-2:00 Thurs., or by appointment

Department of
Atmospheric Science

Mon., May 2, 2016

• Writing-up your analysis slides (pdf)
• Colorbrewer (website)
• HCL Wizard (website)
• BAMS arctile on HCL colors (AMS journal site)

Wed./Fri., April 27/29, 2016

• Effective figures...please do no distribute! (.pdf)

Mon., April 25, 2016

• G. Herman's extreme value theory slides (pdf)

Wed., April 20, 2016

• KS-test slides (pdf)
• Cluster analysis slides (pdf)
• ks-test, 1 sample example (matlab code)
• ks-test, 2 samples example (matlab code)
• k-means clustering example (matlab code)

Mon., April 18, 2016

• Cross-spectrum example (matlab code)
• significance of Coh^2 (matlab code)

Fri./Mon., April 1/4, 2016

• Boxcar and Hanning response functions (matlab code)
• convolution in action (matlab code)
• Hartmann's example of testing spectral significance (matlab code)

Tues., March 29, 2016

• calculating harmonic coefficients (matlab code)
• nyquist frequency example (matlab code)

Mon., March 21, 2016

• Eigenstyle! (website; the code is also available)
• Slides on other EOF methods (pdf)
• eof_noise_reduction.m (matlab code)
• EOF_smoothing (matlab code)

Mon./Wed., March 7/9, 2016

• EOF recipe handout (.pdf)
• EOF_from_scratch.m (matlab code)
• state_data_raw.mat (mat file)

February 17/19/22, 2016 slides (.pdf)

• Testing the normality of correlations (matlab code)
• Least squares and orthogonal least squares (matlab code)

Compositing slides (.pdf)

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

• Jackknife example (matlab code)
• Monte Carlo example (matlab code)
• Subsampling example (matlab code)

Fri., Jan. 29, 2016

• central limit theorem example (matlab code)
• description of a pdf (matlab code)
• figure code often called in Matlab examples (matlab code)
• figure code often called in Matlab examples (matlab code)
• figure code often called in Matlab examples (matlab code)

Wed., January 20, 2015 slides (.pdf)