Summer School Resource page

NCAR Mesa Lab, Boulder CO,August 9-13, 2008
Sponsored in part by Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) and the University of Washington.

Agenda

Presentations and Lectures

• Welcome and Introduction J. Zidek
  Outline of course requirements and future events
  Travel reimbursement forms (PDF), EXCEL spreadsheet (xls)

• Lecture 1, D. Nychka
  Ridge Regression, Cubic smoothing splines

• Lecture 2, D. Nychka
  Kriging and spatial process estimates
  FitO3cov.R
  R code to fit a correlation model to the Midwest daily ozone data set (ozone2).

• Lecture 3, S. Sain
  Multivariate spatial models.

• Lecture 4, R. Furrer
  Sparse matrix methods for large datasets.
  Part 1 (4.8Mb)
  Complete Part 2 (7.9Mb)
  About Spam (228Kb) | About tapering (1.9Mb)

  FurrerClimate.RData (1.4Mb)
  Binary R Data set from these lectures.

• The Climate System and Climate Models (6Mb), G. Meehl
  Past and Future Mysteries of Climate Science (15.5Mb), G. Meehl
  An introduction to Climate models and the central issues in understanding the Earth's climate system.

• Statistics for Climate Model Experiments (7Mb), C. Tebaldi
  Models for Models (820Kb), C. Tebaldi
  

• Statistics for regional climate model experiments S. Sain
  Part 1 (7Mb)
  Case Study 1 (940Kb)
  Case Study 2 (9.3Mb)
  Case Study 3 (1.8Mb)
  

• Regional Climate Models (web), R. Arritt
  

• Reconstructions of Past Climate (3.2Mb), D. Nychka ( B. Li)
  

• Micro Talks

  • L. Bornn
  • J. Hobbs
  • F. Johnson
  • M. Tingley
  • R. Hosseini
  • C. Miller
    Colubrina Asiatica
  • L-L. Wang

Data sets and more ...

• Field trip to Niwot Ridge and CMS.
  Includes supporting data sets.

• Links to IMAGe Data sets
  Includes almost all the US monthly weather data for the past 100 years and also the DEM for the Mary Jane ski area.

• NCAR paleoclimate model output
  NCAR Community Climate System model output to simulate climate for the last 1000 years. Surface temperature for the globe in netcdf format and an R binary data set for the North American domain.

• NARCCAP companion data sets
  Some useful R-based data sets connected with this large regional climate experiment program including a high resolution DEM for North America in R binary format.