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
M W F 9:00-9:50 AM ATS 101General Topics Covered
- Basic statistics
- Monte Carlo techniques
- Regression methods
- Cluster Analysis
- Matrix methods: EOF, SVD, MCA and CCA
- Power spectra of time series
- Filtering of time series