SIO 221C Data Analysis Laboratory

Fall 2010

Professor: Sarah Gille

SIO Office: Nierenberg Hall 348
Telephone: 822-4425
e-mail: sgille at ucsd.edu

Meetings: Tuesday and Thursday: 12:30-1:50, OAR Conference Room

Course Requirements: Complete 3 projects from list below (or new ones to be added; the final project may be arranged with instructor to be tailored to research). Each project is scheduled to take 3 weeks. Students report on their progress at each class meeting and discuss problems and possible solutions with the group. Written reports are submitted at the end of each project. The course is taken S/U.

Course evaluations (Nov 22-Dec 5): https://sio.ucsd.edu/secure/student/course_eval/
Syllabus

Resources:

Reference books
Selected papers
Software possibilities

Schedule:

Organization: September 23

Project 1 (spectral methods): September 28, September 30, October 5, October 7, October 12, October 14; written reports due October 14)

Project 2 (EOFs or objective mapping): October 19, October 21, October 26 (guest lecture by Bruce Cornuelle), November 2, November 4, November 12 (at 1:30 pm in OAR Conference Room; written reports due November 12)

Project 3 (open choice): November 16, November 18, November 23, November 30, December 2, December 6 (11-12:30, OAR Conference Room; written reports due December 6)

No class October 28 (travel), November 9 (travel), November 11 (Veterans' Day), November 25 (Thanksgiving)

Submit papers to turnitin.com using these instructions.

Projects

Time series and spectra
- Salinity Spiking (Rudnick)
- Filtering and Assessing Resolution (Gille)
- Wind-Driven Currents (Rudnick)
- Complex Demodulation (Rudnick)
- Wind-Driven Geostrophic Currents (Gille)
- Wavelets (Rudnick)
Empirical Orthogonal Functions
- Empirical Orthogonal Functions (Rudnick)
- EOFs with Missing Data (Rudnick)
Objective Mapping
- Objective Mapping (Rudnick)
- Objective Mapping (with Anisotropic Decorrelation Functions) (Gille)
- Geostrophic Velocity (Rudnick)
Other
- Box Inverse (Rudnick)
- Probability Density Functions (Gille)

Data

Tools

NetCDF for Matlab. (And some tips for using netcdf.)
grabcdf.m
CSIRO Seawater Toolkit
stick.m
arrow.m
m_map mapping package for use in Matlab, developed by Rich Pawlowicz (UBC).
Mathworks file exchange for user contributed Matlab scripts (suggested by Gabriela Chavez)
NetCDF Operators (NCO)
Comments on using LaTeX to write manuscripts (plus a short guide on equations from the American Mathematical Society web site).
A short guide to LaTeX
angsep.m computes distance between two geographic points in degrees

Lecture Notes

Error propagation (September 23)
Comments on spectra and spectral error bars (September 28, October 5)
Suggestions for clear writing (October 7)
Choosing color maps (October 19)
Clarifying definitions for EOFs with missing data (October 19 [no in-class discussion])
Idealized examples for empirical orthogonal functions (October 26)
Details for EOFs: Uncertainties, alternative methods, propagating modes (October 26)
Using probability density functions (November 18)
Estimating degrees of freedom from autocorrelations (November 23; not fully discussed)
Strategies for coping with large covariance matrices in objective mapping problems. (November 30)

Sarah Gille's Home Page

Daniel L. Rudnick's Home Page