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 24	Chant	Introduction and Review of statistics  (RU Matlab license)
Jan 28	Chant	Least Square Fitting and Harmonic Analysis
Jan 31	Chant	Harmonic Analysis and Principle Component Analysis
Feb 4	Chant	Fourier transform
Feb 7	Chant	Convolution theorem and Filtering
Feb 11	Student project topic synopses
Feb 14	Wilkin	Linear algebra review and Matlab linear algebra demonstration
Feb 18	Wilkin	Least squares and Singular Value Decomposition (jw_lecture_leastsquares.m and jw_lecture_svd.m)
Feb 21	Wilkin	Weighted least squares and Optimal interpolation
Feb 25	Wilkin	Optimal interpolation cov_mercator.m,  oi_mercator.m
Feb 28	Project working group sessions in COOL Classroom Room 105 IMCS Building
Mar 3	No class - AGU Ocean Sciences
Mar 6	No class - AGU Ocean Sciences
Mar 10	Chant	Covariance matrix (Code and data used in Class)
Mar 13	Chant	Spectral analysis 1
SPRING BREAK	SPRING BREAK	SPRING BREAK
Mar 24	Chant	Spectral Analysis 2 (Noted continued from 3/13 lecture)
Mar 27	Chant	Spectral analysis with Matlab (Grab these files)
Mar 31	Chant	Wavelet Analysis
Apr 3	Chant	Wavelet Analysis (Wavelet m.files)
Apr 7	Wilkin	Empirical Orthogonal Functions (1)
Apr 10	Wilkin	Empirical Orthogonal Functions (2) (EOF matlab files cacsst.m)
Apr 14	no class
Apr 17	Wilkin	Empirical Orthogonal Functions (3) (EOF matlab files cacsstsignificance.m)
Apr 21	Wilkin	EOFs again
Apr 24	Wilkin
Apr 28	Student Project Final Presentations	Schedule is here
May 1	Student Project Final Presentations
May 5	Student Project Final Presentations