Catalyst Share Space to exchange data and scripts

Lab Reports Guidelines

Other resources and miscellany

Week 1

Class Notes [1,2,3]

Powerpoint Slides [1]

Know when your numbers are significant [short article from Nature magazine, 17 Dec 2012]

Lord Kelvin quote on measurement
Puget sound map
Student, 1908: The probable error of a mean, Biometrika, 6, No 1, 1-25. PDF of full article.
Degrees of freedom explained - this is an interesting illustration of the DOF concept
Chirping crickets tell the temperature
Temperatures.com - the resource you’ve been waiting for all your life
Measuring temperature - an article by Sander Schimmelpenninck
International Temperature Scale - includes table of standards

Week 2

Temperature Measurement (Moore)

Class Notes [1]

Powerpoint Slides [1]

Week 3

Linear Regression Notes [1]

Week 6

Ocean surface winds from satellite "scatterometry" (Seawinds instrument on Quikscat)

Hurricane Katrina, August 28th 2005

Quikscat map plotter

Quikscat map plotter [zoom in on Katrina]

Powerpoint slides to accompany lectures. [Note that these and not complete and will be added to during the week]

TIROS - the first meteorological satellite (1960)
NOAA in Space - photo library
IKONOS - state of the art multichannel imager with 1 m resolution. Here you can find their top 10 zoomable images

Week 10: Radar

Powerpoint slides to accompany lectures

Concepts

Time Response
Accuracy and Precision
Sampling Error
Linear Regression