Random Matrices - Climate and Weather Working Group

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Announcements

NOTE: The room has been changed to SAMSI Room 203 (upstairs from where we met before).

Meeting Time: Wednesday 11am - 12:30
Location: NISS building, SAMSI Room 203

Instructions for remote participation:

WebEx:
Go to https://samsi.webex.com
Click on the meeting you want to join
Enter Your Name, Your Email Address and the meeting password from the email
The first time meeting manager will run and it will take about a minute to setup
Now you are in the meeting and can use all the features of WebEx
Make sure you are seeing the screen of the presenters, if not send a message or tell via phone
You can learn more about WebEx and take tutorials at university.webex.com and login a guest - WebEx URL is samsi.webex.com
Note: WebEx can run slowly on Unix machines

Teleconference Line:
919-685-9338
Please dial no earlier than 5 minutes prior to working group meeting.

If you are having trouble with WebEx or the Teleconference line please call (919)685-9350

Meeting Activities

Date	Topics & Readings	Notes
10/4	EOFs: Ch 13 of von Storch & Zwiers	Meeting notes Smartboard file Comments from Jonty Rougier
10/11	Fingerprinting: Levine and Berliner (1999) Statistical principles for climate change studies. Journal of Climate, 12, 564-574. Allen and Tett (1999) Checking for model consistency in optimal fingerprinting. Climate Dynamics, 15: 419-434.	Meeting notes Comments from Jim Gattiker
10/18	More fingerprinting: Berliner, Levine, and Shea (2000). Bayesian Climate Change Assessment. Journal of Climate, 3805-3820.	Smartboard file Meeting notes
10/25	Which space-time covariance functions are appropriate for climate data? Chunsheng Ma (2005) Linear combinations of space-time covariance functions and variograms. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 53, 857-864. Michael Stein (2005) Space-time covariance functions. JASA, 100, 310-321.	Smartboard file
11/1	No meeting - Bayes Focus Week workshop
11/7 (Note this is Tuesday, not Wednesday)	Remote tutorial on climate models by Andrew Gettelman, 11:30-1 in NISS Room 104. Readings: Sections 7.3 and 7.4 of Wallace & Hobbs, climateprediction.net introduction to climate models	Presentation Slides

Group Members

Name	Affiliation	Email Address
Montse Fuentes	N.C. State	fuentes (at) stat.ncsu.edu
Eitan Greenshtein	SAMSI	greenshtein (at) samsi.info
Serge Guillas	Georgia Tech	guillas (at) math.gatech.edu
Gaby Hegerl	Duke	hegerl (at) duke.edu
Iain Johnstone	Stanford	imj (at) stanford.edu
Cari Kaufman	SAMSI	cgk (at) samsi.info
Chungsheng Ma	N.C. State	ma (at) stat.ncsu.edu
Doug Nychka	NCAR	nychka (at) ucar.edu
Jayanta Pal	SAMSI	jpal (at) samsi.info
Debashis Paul	UC-Davis	debashis (at) wald.ucdavis.edu
Greg Rempala	SAMSI	rempala (at) samsi.info
Elaine Spiller	Duke	spiller (at) math.duke.edu