Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences
Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences, Third Edition, explains the latest statistical methods used to describe, analyze, test, and forecast atmospheric data. This revised and expanded text is intended to help students understand and communicate what their data sets have to say, or to make sense of the scientific literature in meteorology, climatology, and related disciplines.

In this new edition, what was a single chapter on multivariate statistics has been expanded to a full six chapters on this important topic. Other chapters have also been revised and cover exploratory data analysis, probability distributions, hypothesis testing, statistical weather forecasting, forecast verification, and time series analysis. There is now an expanded treatment of resampling tests and key analysis techniques, an updated discussion on ensemble forecasting, and a detailed chapter on forecast verification. In addition, the book includes new sections on maximum likelihood and on statistical simulation and contains current references to original research. Students will benefit from pedagogical features including worked examples, end-of-chapter exercises with separate solutions, and numerous illustrations and equations.

This book will be of interest to researchers and students in the atmospheric sciences, including meteorology, climatology, and other geophysical disciplines.

- Accessible presentation and explanation of techniques for atmospheric data summarization, analysis, testing and forecasting

- Many worked examples

- End-of-chapter exercises, with answers provided

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Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences
Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences, Third Edition, explains the latest statistical methods used to describe, analyze, test, and forecast atmospheric data. This revised and expanded text is intended to help students understand and communicate what their data sets have to say, or to make sense of the scientific literature in meteorology, climatology, and related disciplines.

In this new edition, what was a single chapter on multivariate statistics has been expanded to a full six chapters on this important topic. Other chapters have also been revised and cover exploratory data analysis, probability distributions, hypothesis testing, statistical weather forecasting, forecast verification, and time series analysis. There is now an expanded treatment of resampling tests and key analysis techniques, an updated discussion on ensemble forecasting, and a detailed chapter on forecast verification. In addition, the book includes new sections on maximum likelihood and on statistical simulation and contains current references to original research. Students will benefit from pedagogical features including worked examples, end-of-chapter exercises with separate solutions, and numerous illustrations and equations.

This book will be of interest to researchers and students in the atmospheric sciences, including meteorology, climatology, and other geophysical disciplines.

- Accessible presentation and explanation of techniques for atmospheric data summarization, analysis, testing and forecasting

- Many worked examples

- End-of-chapter exercises, with answers provided

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Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences

Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences

by Daniel S. Wilks
Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences

Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences

by Daniel S. Wilks

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Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences, Third Edition, explains the latest statistical methods used to describe, analyze, test, and forecast atmospheric data. This revised and expanded text is intended to help students understand and communicate what their data sets have to say, or to make sense of the scientific literature in meteorology, climatology, and related disciplines.

In this new edition, what was a single chapter on multivariate statistics has been expanded to a full six chapters on this important topic. Other chapters have also been revised and cover exploratory data analysis, probability distributions, hypothesis testing, statistical weather forecasting, forecast verification, and time series analysis. There is now an expanded treatment of resampling tests and key analysis techniques, an updated discussion on ensemble forecasting, and a detailed chapter on forecast verification. In addition, the book includes new sections on maximum likelihood and on statistical simulation and contains current references to original research. Students will benefit from pedagogical features including worked examples, end-of-chapter exercises with separate solutions, and numerous illustrations and equations.

This book will be of interest to researchers and students in the atmospheric sciences, including meteorology, climatology, and other geophysical disciplines.

- Accessible presentation and explanation of techniques for atmospheric data summarization, analysis, testing and forecasting

- Many worked examples

- End-of-chapter exercises, with answers provided


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780123850232
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Publication date: 07/04/2011
Series: International Geophysics , #100
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 704
File size: 15 MB
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About the Author

Daniel S. Wilks has been a member of the Atmospheric Sciences faculty at Cornell University since 1987. His research focuses on the application of statistical methods for quantification and analysis of uncertainty in meteorological and climatological data and forecasts. Dr. Wilks has taught courses on statistics in the atmospheric sciences and has been author or coauthor of more than 100 peer-reviewed research articles.

Table of Contents

I Preliminaries1. Introduction2. Review of Probability

II Univariate Statistics3. Empirical Distributions and Exploratory Data Analysis4. Parametric Probability Distributions5. Frequentist Statistical Inference6. Bayesian Inference7. Statistical Forecasting8. Forecast Verification9. Time Series

III Multivariate Statistic10. Matrix Algebra and Random Matrices11. The Multivariate Normal (MVN) Distribution12. Principal Component (EOF) Analysis13. Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA)14. Discrimination and Classification15. Cluster Analysis

AppendixA. Example Data SetsB. Probability TablesC. Answers to Exercises

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