Credits: 3 (1-0-4)
Description
Weather Forecast Evaluation: Jet stream analysis, standard diagnostics and skill scores, Extreme events analysis. Using correlation to explore the relationships between large-scale atmospheric conditions, and local weather. Analyzing trends in climate data, and determining if they are statistically significant (regression, Mann-Kendall test etc). Regression based approaches, simple linear & multiple. Using indexes, Compositing patterns, Isolating patterns using EOF/PC analysis; Analysis of Time Series, Autocorrelation and Spectra.