Time Series Analysis in Meteorology and Climatology: An Introduction

TimeSeriesAnalysisinMeteorologyandClimatologyprovidesanaccessibleoverviewofthisnotoriouslydifficultsubject.Clearlystructuredthroughout,theauthorsdevelopsufficienttheoreticalfoundationtounderstandthebasisforapplyingvariousanalyticalmethodstoatimeseriesandshowclearlyhowtointerprettheresults.Takingauniqueapproachtothesubject,theauthorsuseacombinationoftheoryandapplicationtorealdatasetstoenhancestudentunderstandingthroughoutthebook.Thisbookiswrittenforthosestudentsthathaveadatasetintheformofatimeseriesandareconfrontedwiththeproblemofhowtoanalysethisdata.Eachchaptercoversthevariousmethodsthatcanbeusedtocarryoutthisanalysiswithcoverageofthenecessarytheoryanditsapplication.Inthetheoreticalsectiontopicscoveredinclude;themathematicaloriginofspectrumwindows,leakageofvarianceandunderstandingspectrumwindows.Theapplicationssectionincludesrealdatasetsforstudentstoanalyse.Scalarvariablesareusedforeaseofunderstandingforexampleairtemperatures,windspeedandprecipitation.Studentsareencouragedtowritetheirowncomputerprogrammesanddatasetsareprovidedtoenablethemtorecognizequicklywhethertheirprogrammeisworkingcorrectly-onedatasetisprovidedwithartificialdataandtheotherwithrealdatawherethestudentsarerequiredtophysicallyinterprettheresultsoftheirperiodgramanalysis.BasedontheacclaimedandlongstandingcourseattheUniversityofOklahomaandpartoftheRMetSAdvancingWeatherandClimate?ScienceSeries,thisbookisdistinctinitsapproachtothesubjectmatterinthatitiswrittenspecificallyforreadersinmeteorologyandclimatologyandusesamixoftheoryandapplicationtorealdatasets.