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= 63-953 Climate and Satellite Data Analysis = = 63-953 Climate and Satellite Data Analysis =
'''Lars
Kaleschke, Alexander Loew'''
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Place: Geom 1536c  Place: Geom 1536c
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The participants will learn to practically work with climate model, reanalysis, in-situ station and satellite data. Organized as a group project, the participants will further learn the principles of project management and shared software development. 
The participants will learn to practically work with climate model, reanalysis, in-situ station and satellite data. Organized as a group project, the participants will further learn the principles of project management and shared software development.
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 * [[/PM|Project management and documentation]]   * [[Climate_and_Satellite_Data_Analysis_2014/PM|Project management and documentation]]
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 * [[DataIO|Access to data sets]]
 * [[/Plotting|Plotting]] [[attachment:Seawater plot.ipynb]]
 * [[GenMaps|Data Visualization: Generating maps]]
 * [[http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/interactive/htmlnotebook.html|IPython Notebooks]] [[https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/A-gallery-of-interesting-IPython-Notebooks|Gallery of interesting IPython Notebooks]]
 * [[attachment:Stochastic analysis of time series.ipynb]] [[attachment:Monte carlo.ipynb]] [[attachment:GISSTEMP netcdf.ipynb]] [[attachment:datetimeobjects.ipynb]] [[attachment:Station data seasonal cycle.ipynb]]

[[/Projects2014 | Projects descriptions]]
 * [[DataIO|Access to data sets]]
 * [[GenMaps|Data Visualization: Generating maps]]
 
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Morning: Group presentations of methods and code implementations
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Project work Afternoon: Project work
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Morning: Group presentations of preliminary results
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Presentation of results and discussion Afternoon: Project work
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Morning: final presenation of results and discussion
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Further analysis and preparation of final report  Afternoon: evaluation and preparation of final report
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= Topics for group work =
== Coverage bias in the HadCRUT4 temperature series and its impact on recent temperature trends ==
{{attachment:media_summary.png}}
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Kevin Cowtan and Robert Way fill the gaps of the HadCRUT temperature data set by using satellite data. Compare their new reconstruction of surface temperature data to independent in-situ observations and reanalysis data.
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== Topics for group work ==
  
= Project groups =
Cowtan and Way (2013) methods and data are freely available:

 * http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/qj.2297/abstract
 * http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~kdc3/papers/coverage2013/methods.html

Surface temperatures are available from the International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP) website:

 * http://iabp.apl.washington.edu/data_satemp.html

=== Cowtan and Way (CW2013) reconstruction ===

 * Review methods of Cowtan and Way (2013)
 * Analyse their reconstructed dataset of surface air temperature (seasonal cycle, anomalies, trends etc.)
 * Look at correlations with climate indices, e.g. ENSO, NAO.
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=== Variations in Surface Air Temperature Observations in the Arctic ===

 * Review methods of Rigor et al. (2000)
 * Analyse the surface air temperature measured by the drift buoys (seasonal cycle, anomalies, trends etc.)
 * Are there significant trends over different period of times?

 * [[http://iabp.apl.washington.edu/AirT/RigorEtal-SAT.pdf|Rigor, I., R. Colony, and S. Martin, 2000, Variations in Surface Air Temperature Observations in the Arctic, 1979 - 1997, J. Climate, Vol. 13, no 5, 896-914.]]
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=== Data intercomparison ===

Use the buoy measurements of surface air temperature as ground truth

 * Write code to interpolate the different datasets in a common grid
 * Compare CW2013, buoy and reanalysis data
 * Was the data gap in the Arctic filled in reasonably?
 * Are there biases or jumps in the data?
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== HOAPS ocean flux sampling bias ==
 * [[http://www.hoaps.org|HOAPS climatology]] of ocean surface fluxes
 * HOAPS is sampled twice a day
 * What is the impact of undersampling the dirnal cycle on monthly means?
 * What is the impact of sea ice gaps on monthly means?
 * How do HOAPS surface flux estimates compare to literature values of global mean ocean surface fluxes?

[[/ProjectD]]
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 * prepare [[ftp://ftp.ifremer.fr/ifremer/cersat/products/gridded/psi-concentration/data/|sea ice data]] (Lars) :-) (CMIP5 data available)
 * prepare CMIP5 data (Alex) :-)
 * CW2013 :-)
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 * Stations :-)  * Bouy data :-)
 * HOAPS data :-)
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 * Methods and data   * Methods and data
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 * Zwiers, von Storch
 * Jenkins and Watts, Spectral Analysis and its Application, MAT STAT J3
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= Examples from the past =

== How significant are observations of Arctic temperature trends? ==

 * https://wiki.zmaw.de/lehre/Climate_and_Satellite_Data_Analysis_2013/ProjectA

63-953 Climate and Satellite Data Analysis

Lars Kaleschke, Alexander Loew

MS Integrated Climate System Sciences

Date: 3.2.2014-7.2.2014

Place: Geom 1536c

Course objectives

The participants will learn to practically work with climate model, reanalysis, in-situ station and satellite data. Organized as a group project, the participants will further learn the principles of project management and shared software development.

Schedule

Monday

General Introduction

Group work: develop a project plan and write a short technical proposal for your project.

Final report due by 15. March 2014

Obtain data and do preliminary analysis (e.g. data coverage).

Tuesday

Morning: Group presentations of project plan and preliminary analysis.

Afternoon: implementation and project work

Wednesday

Morning: Group presentations of methods and code implementations

Afternoon: Project work

Thursday

Morning: Group presentations of preliminary results

Afternoon: Project work

Friday

Morning: final presenation of results and discussion

Afternoon: evaluation and preparation of final report

Topics for group work

media_summary.png

Kevin Cowtan and Robert Way fill the gaps of the HadCRUT temperature data set by using satellite data. Compare their new reconstruction of surface temperature data to independent in-situ observations and reanalysis data.

Cowtan and Way (2013) methods and data are freely available:

Surface temperatures are available from the International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP) website:

Cowtan and Way (CW2013) reconstruction

  • Review methods of Cowtan and Way (2013)
  • Analyse their reconstructed dataset of surface air temperature (seasonal cycle, anomalies, trends etc.)
  • Look at correlations with climate indices, e.g. ENSO, NAO.

/ProjectA

Variations in Surface Air Temperature Observations in the Arctic

/ProjectB

Data intercomparison

Use the buoy measurements of surface air temperature as ground truth

  • Write code to interpolate the different datasets in a common grid
  • Compare CW2013, buoy and reanalysis data
  • Was the data gap in the Arctic filled in reasonably?
  • Are there biases or jumps in the data?

/ProjectC

HOAPS ocean flux sampling bias

  • HOAPS climatology of ocean surface fluxes

  • HOAPS is sampled twice a day
  • What is the impact of undersampling the dirnal cycle on monthly means?
  • What is the impact of sea ice gaps on monthly means?
  • How do HOAPS surface flux estimates compare to literature values of global mean ocean surface fluxes?

/ProjectD

TODOs

Data

  • CW2013 :-)

  • ERA-Interim :-)

  • NCEP :-)

  • Bouy data :-)

  • HOAPS data :-)

Final report

Template structure:

  • Abstract
  • Introduction: state of the art (literature), statement of the problem
  • Methods and data
  • Results
  • Discussion
  • Conlcusion

References

  • Python at KlimaCampus

  • Python Scripting for Computational Science, Hans Petter Langtangen, Springer (available in the ZMAW library)

Examples from the past

How significant are observations of Arctic temperature trends?

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