ATM693 Calendar

Analysis Methods in Meteorology and Climate

Dates	Monday	Wednesday	Friday
Week 1			21-Jan2011 Class #0 Uma out of town today for a meeting.
Week 2	24-Jan2011 Class #1 10-11:20 - Syllabus Review & Expectation, Data formats lecture pdf	26-Jan2011 Class #2 9:45-11:05 -Unix, Vi and GrADS lecture pdf Example data from class Homework 1 handed out Files for homework 1	28-Jan2011 Class #3 9:45-11:05 - NCL part 1 Reading in NetCDF data, RunningNCL, Language basics, defining data structures, printing lecture pdf
Week 3	31-Jan2011 Class #4 9:45-10:45 (this week) - NCL part 2 I/O, Data Processing lecture pdf Homework 1 due	2-Feb2011 Class #5 - NCL part 3 Finish Data Processing, Wrappers with FORTRAN and C lecture pdf	4-Feb2011 Class #6 - NCL part 4, NCO Graphics & NCO lecture pdf full Excellent NCO handout
Week 4	7-Feb2011 Class #7 9:30-11:00 (from now on) Basic Concepts of Statistics, Robust and Resistant measures Chap. 1-2 Wilkes no pdfs today Mini-project 1 discussed, data	9-Feb2011 Class #8 Transforming data, EDA for paired data, EDA for higher dimensional data Chap. 2 Wilkes lecture pdf with all plots separately
Week 5	14-Feb2011 Class #9 One point correlation maps, teleconnection map, Parametric distributions, Discrete distributions lecture pdf	16-Feb2011 Class #10 Statistical Expectation, Continuous distributions: Gaussian Distribution (Central Limit Theorem, Condtional distribution), Gamma Distribution lecture pdf
Week 6	21-Feb2011 Class #11 Continuous distributions: Beta Distribution, Extreme Value Distributions (Extreme Types Theorem): Gumbel, Weibull and Freshet, Mixed Distribution, Measures of Fit (Superposition, Quantile-Quantile plots), Parmeter fit (Maximum Likelihood) lecture pdf	23-Feb2011 Class #12 Parameter Fitting, Randome number generation, Hypothesis Testing (Null Hypothesis, Test statistic,), Student's t-test lecture pdf
Week 7	28-Feb2011 Class #13 Effective degrees of freedom, Parametric tests: Chi squared and Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Nonparametric tests: Wilcoxen-Mann-Whitney, Wilcoxen signed rank test, Field significance lecture pdf	2-Mar2011 Class #14 Nonparametric Hypothesis testing: Resampling (Permutation test and Bootstrap test), Statistical Forecasting: Linear regression, goodness of fit lecture pdf
Week 8	7-Mar2011 Class #15 Multiple linear regression, Transforming predictors, Nonlinear Regression: Logistic and Poissons, Predictor selection lecture pdf	9-Mar2011 Class #16 lecture pdf Multiple Linear regression predictor selection, Forecast variables discussion Take Home Quiz 1 Due
Spring Break
Week 9	21-Mar2011 Class #17 Work on forecast, 'R' MLR tutorial	23-Mar2011 Class #18 Work on Forecast
Week 10	28-Mar2011 & March 30 No class LCLUC meeting no class (make up this week and next)	Friday Make up Class on 1-Apr2011 Class #19 Finalize forecast work
Week 11	4-Apr2011 Class #20 Time series analysis, finalize forecast & submit Nenana Forecast Take Home Quiz 2 Due	6-Apr2011 Class #21 Time series analysis	8-Apr2011 Friday Make up Class #22 E-P Fluxes/storm tracks
Week 12	11-Apr2011 Class #23 Time series analysis	13-Apr2011 Class #24 EOF analysis and variants	15-Apr2011 Friday Make up Class #25 EOF analysis and variants
Week 13	18-Apr2011 Class #26 EOF analysis and variants	20-Apr2011 Class #27 EOF analysis and variants	22-Apr2011 Friday Make up Class #28 E-P Fluxes/storm tracks
Week 14	25-Apr2011 Class #29 EOF analysis and variants	27-Apr2011 Class #30 EOF analysis and variants
Week 15	2-May2011 AMS meeting no class (already made up)	4-May2011 AMS meeting no class (already made up)
Finals Week	Final Presentations Thursday May 12th 1-4PM

Homework ATM 693

Homework 1: Grads: Handed out 26Jan 2011, get files here. Due 31Jan 2011.

Homework 2: NCL: Handed out 9Feb 2011,

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