Credits: 2 (0-0-4)
Description
Introduction to UNIX/LINUX, basic commands, file management; introduction to MATLAB, using Mathworks resources; MATLAB I/O with NetCDF, HDF and GRIB2; plotting 1, 2 and 3 dimensional weather/climate data and animations with MATLAB; Univariate & bivariate statistics, mean/median/mode, variance/standard deviation, correlation, errors, regression; probability and distributions, how to frame and test a hypothesis, principles of statistical significance, using MATLAB functions to test hypotheses and estimate statistical significance; working with spatial weather/climate data, regridding meteorological station data, interpolation, map overlays; working with time-series, interpolation, estimating trend in weather/climate variables.