SIO 221C Data Analysis Laboratory

Fall 2009

Professor: Sarah Gille

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

Meetings: Tuesday and Thursday: 2:00-3:20, Spiess Hall 440 Conference Room

Course Requirements: Complete 3 projects from list below (or new ones to be added; one 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 23-Dec 6): https://sio.ucsd.edu/secure/student/course_eval/
Syllabus

Resources:

Reference books
Selected papers
Software possibilities

Schedule:

Organization: September 24

Project 1 (spectral methods): September 29, October 1, October 6, October 13, October 15, October 20; written reports due October 20) No class October 8

Project 2 (EOFs or objective mapping): October 22, October 27, October 29, November 3, November 5, November 10, (written reports due November 10)

Project 3 (open choice): November 12, November 19, November 24, December 1, December 3, December 8 (written reports due December 8) No class November 26: 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 24)
Comments on spectra and spectral error bars (September 29, October 1)
Comments on spectral aliasing and computing alias frequencies (October 5)
Coherence (and some examples that I didn't discuss) (October 13)
Suggestions for clear writing (October 15)
Interpreting chi-squared distributions (October 22)
Choosing color maps (October 22)
Idealized examples for empirical orthogonal functions (October 27)
Convergence of a chi-squared distribution to a Gaussian (October 29)
Clarifying definitions for EOFs with missing data (November 3)

Sarah Gille's Home Page

Daniel L. Rudnick's Home Page