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Analysis of Climate and Weather Data
Lecturer:
Christoph Frei
christoph.frei[at]env.ethz.ch
Assisstant:
Omar Bellprat
IAC ETH Zurich
omar.bellprat[at]env.ethz.ch
Autumn Semester 2011
Time: Thursdays 15:15 - 17:00
Location: LFW C1
Course Objectives:
- Introduce advanced statistical techniques for the analysis of climate and weather data,
- Illustrate methods with examples from the scientific literature,
- Teach their application in hands-on exercises.
Credit Points & Examination:
The 3 credit points will be rewarded for successful passing of a 30 minute oral examination after the end of the semester.
Course Program and Notes:
8 two-hour lectures & 5 computer workshops.
Course notes (slides) are provided in electronic form on this site.
| Date | Theme |
| 22.09.11 | 1) Introduction, Basics & Exploratory Methods |
| 29.09.11 | 2) Hypothesis Testing |
| 06.10.11 | Workshop: Introduction to R |
| 13.10.11 | 3) Trend Analysis |
| 20.10.11 | Workshop: Exploratory Methods & Trend Analysis |
| 27.10.11 | 4) Extreme Value Analysis |
| 03.11.11 | Workshop: Extreme Value Analysis |
| 10.11.11 | No Lecture |
| 17.11.11 | 5) Forecast Evaluation and Skill Scores (Part 1) |
| 24.11.11 | 5) Forecast Evaluation and Skill Scores (Part 2) |
| 01.12.11 | Workshop: Forecast Evaluation and Skill Scores |
| 08.12.11 | 6) Principal Component Analysis |
| 15.12.11 | 6) Maximum Covariance Analysis |
| 22.12.11 | Workshop: PCA & CCA |
Workshop programme and files:
Computer workshops are based on a platform independent, free software package (the R environment for statistical computing and graphics). R is available from the R-project web-site. An introduction to R for beginners will be given in a specific Workshop (07.10.). A more detailed introduction is available from the R-project web-site.
A “fleet” of Macintosh Laptop Computers is available for the time of the workshops. Students can however also bring along their own computers, with R and the necessary add-on packages pre-installed.
The following table lists excercise sheets and specific R packages needed for each workshop. Students working with their own computers need to install the packages prior to the workshops. (Take care to prevent unzipping the files when downloading. Installation requires compressed packages.) Several additional packages are required and need to be downloaded/installed from the R webpage: For Workshop 1: fitdistrplus. For Workshop 4: maps, mapproj, mapdata.
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06.10.2011 Workshop 0: Introduction to R |
demoR.R / R-Intro |
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20.10.2011 Workshop 1: Exploratory Methods & Trend Analysis |
ex1.R |
ACWDex1_1.2.1.tar.gz trend_1.4.2.tar.gz |
ACWDex1_1.2.1.zip trend_1.4.2.zip |
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03.11.2011 Workshop 2 : Extreme Value Analysis |
ex2.R |
ACWDex2_1.2.1.tar.gz gevXgpd_1.3.5.tar.gz |
ACWDex2_1.2.1.zip gevXgpd_1.3.5.zip |
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01.12.2011 Workshop 3: Forecast Evaluation and Skill Scores |
ex3.R |
ACWDex3_1.1.3.tar.gz |
ACWDex3_1.1.3.zip |
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22.12.2011 Workshop 4 : PCA & CCA |
ex4.R |
ACWDex4_1.1.1.tar.gz geocors_1.1.2.tar.gz pcaXcca_1.2.5.tar.gz plotmap_2.1.4.tar.gz |
ACWDex4_1.1.1.zip geocors_1.1.2.zip pcaXcca_1.2.5.zip plotmap_2.1.4.zip |
Additional material
References to the literature cited in the lecture notes.
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