Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences (Volume 100) (International Geophysics, Volume 100) - Hardcover

Wilks, Daniel S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0127519661 ISBN 13: 9780127519661

Publisher: Academic Press, 2005

Synopsis

Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences, Second 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.

* Presents and explains techniques used in atmospheric data summarization, analysis, testing, and forecasting
* Features numerous worked examples and exercises
* Covers Model Output Statistic (MOS) with an introduction to the Kalman filter, an approach that tolerates frequent model changes
* Includes a detailed section on forecast verification
New in this Edition:
* Expanded treatment of resampling tests and coverage of key analysis techniques
* Updated treatment of ensemble forecasting
* Edits and revisions throughout the text plus updated references

About this title

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0127519661
• ISBN 13: 9780127519661
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 648