Geophysical Data Analysis (16:712:615 and 11:628:452)

Class meets 12:35 pm – 1:55 pm  Mondays and Thursdays  in Thompson-101

Instructors:      Bob Chant   chant@marine.rutgers.edu

                        John Wilkin   jwilkin@rutgers.edu

Schedule of lectures 2008

Date	Instructor	Topic
Jan 20	Chant	Introduction and Review of statistics  (RU Matlab license)
Jan 24	Chant	Least Squares. Linear regression and correlation
Jan 27	Chant	Multiple regression & Correlation Matrix
Jan 31	Chant	Harmonic Analysis
Feb 3	Chant	Convolution theorem
Feb 7	Chant	Filtering
Feb 10	Wilkin	Linear algebra review and Matlab linear algebra demonstration
Feb 14	Wilkin	Least squares and Singular Value Decomposition (jw_lecture_leastsquares.m and jw_lecture_svd.m)
Feb 17	Wilkin	Weighted least squares and Optimal interpolation
Feb 21	Wilkin	Optimal interpolation cov_mercator.m,  oi_mercator.m
Feb 24	Wilkin	Model Skill Assessment.
Feb 28	Student Proposal Presentation
March 3	Chant	Fourier Analysis
Mar 7	Chant	Fourier Analysis
Mar 10	Chant	Spectral analysis 1
SPRING BREAK	SPRING BREAK	SPRING BREAK
Mar 21	Chant	Spectral Analysis 2 (Noted continued from 3/13 lecture)
Mar 24	Chant	Spectral analysis with Matlab (Grab these files)
Mar 28	Chant	Wavelet Analysis (Wavelet m.files)
Mar 31	Wilkin
Apr 4	Wilkin	Empirical Orthogonal Functions (1)
Apr 7	Wilkin	Empirical Orthogonal Functions (2) (EOF matlab files cacsst.m)
Apr 11	Wilkin
Apr 14	Wilkin	Empirical Orthogonal Functions (3) (EOF matlab files cacsstsignificance.m)
Apr 18	Wilkin	EOFs again
Apr 21	Wilkin
Apr 25	Student Project Final Presentations
April 28	Student Project Final Presentations
May 2	Student Project Final Presentations