Germany

25th Training Course for Beginners in Climate Time Series Analysis

Organizer(s) Climate Risk Analysis
Venue
Climate Risk Analysis, Course/Office Building, Kreuzstrasse 27, Heckenbeck, 37581 Bad Gandersheim
Date
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This training course for beginners in Climate Time Series Analysis is specifically tailored to the needs of MSc students, PhD students and postdocs, who wish to learn about an important subject (time series analysis), but have had so far not much exposure to in-depth mathematical or statistical teaching. It will also be attractive for professional researchers, who wish to update their knowledge. We assume that participants are from somewhere in the range of climatology, ecology, environmental sciences, geosciences, meteorology or hydrology.

A significant part of the course is devoted to training in "Open Sessions", where concepts are recapitulated, basic and advanced questions are answered, applications are discussed and time is devoted to in-depth analyses of your own data.

You will learn all the basics, and the advanced mathematical methods. You get the required statistical tools and extensive hands-on training to become able to optimally analyse your data and answer the associated questions about the climate. You will acquire the theoretical basis for understanding the tools and interpreting the results. You will learn to quantify the various sources of uncertainty in data, climate models and statistical estimation.

Climate case studies serve to illustrate the usefulness of the tools: how to make the most of your data by means of statistics—and how to publish it in a thesis or a research paper.

Examples include:

  • Dynamics of the Pliocene Northern Hemisphere Glaciation (Mudelsee and Raymo 2005 Paleoceanography 20:PA4022) and the Cenozoic climate evolution (Mudelsee et al. 2014 Reviews of Geophysics 52:333)
  • Paleohurricane risk during the past millennium from proxy series (Besonen et al. 2008 Geophysical Research Letters 35:L14705)
  • Modelled river runoff and river floods during the past decades and centuries (Mudelsee et al. 2003 Nature 425:166, St. George and Mudelsee 2018 Journal of Flood Risk Management)

The course instructor, Dr. Manfred Mudelsee, trained in physics, geology and statistics, has a long-standing expertise in teaching statistical methods to non-specialists.

What you get: 

The course consists of lectures and extensive hands-on training in computer tutorials. Data, software, the lecture as PDF, the statistical tools and a printed copy of the textbook (Mudelsee, 2014, Climate Time Series Analysis, 2nd edition, Springer, 454 pp) are included in the fee. You get the link to the course PDF already one week before the start to optimally prepare yourself. After the course, you are offered a one-month period where you may receive support on the software and general statistical advice.

Participants are strongly encouraged to bring their own data for discussion and analysis during the course. The number of participants is limited to eight to allow in-depth individual consultation with the course holder and textbook author, Manfred Mudelsee.

An ice-breaker meal and daily organic lunch (vegetarian or vegan if requested), snacks, coffee and tea are included. A shuttle service to/from the railway station and your accomodation in Bad Gandersheim are also covered by the registration fee.

How to register:

Deadline Fri 15th Feb 2019, email to bcourse@climate-risk-analysis.com

Regular registration:1280 EUR

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