Course Schedule

Schedule is subject to change. All changes will be posted here. If there is a conflict between the due dates for an assignment between this page and Canvas, consider this page to be the correct version.

Date Lesson Assignments
Mon., Aug. 25 Course Introduction PS0 (ungraded) Assigned, Final Project Introduced
Wed., Aug. 27 Module 1 Introduction PS1 Assigned
Fri., Aug. 29 Lab 1: Julia Setup & Hello World
Mon., Sep. 1 NO CLASS - Labor Day
Wed., Sep. 3 EVT Fundamentals
Fri., Sep. 5 Lab 2: Julia Data Handling
Mon., Sep. 8 Likelihood & MLE
Wed., Sep. 10 Tutorial: MLE with Turing.jl Probability examples EVT examples
Fri., Sep. 12 Lab 3: GEV Inference
Mon., Sep. 15 Bayesian Statistics
Wed., Sep. 17 MCMC Methods
Fri., Sep. 19 Lab 4: Bayesian Rainfall Analysis
Mon., Sep. 22 Nonstationarity & Covariates
Wed., Sep. 24 Sampling Variability & Regionalization
Fri., Sep. 26 Lab 5: Regional vs Local Parameter Estimation
Mon., Sep. 29 Advanced Model Selection
Wed., Oct. 1 Guest Lecture: IDF Curves and Duration
Fri., Oct. 3 PS1 Due & Module 1 Exam Review PS1 Due
Mon., Oct. 6 Module 1 Test
Wed., Oct. 8 Final Project Workshop
Fri., Oct. 10 Module 1 Exam Review
Mon., Oct. 13 No Class: Fall Break
Wed., Oct. 15 Climate Models Overview PS2 Assigned
Fri., Oct. 17 Lab 6: Julia Climate Data Tools Final Project Proposal Due
Mon., Oct. 20 Bias Correction and Downscaling
Wed., Oct. 22 Bias Correction Applications Read Ines and Hansen (2006)
Fri., Oct. 24 Lab 7: Bias Correction Implementation
Mon., Oct. 27 Weather Typing and Synoptic Climatology
Wed., Oct. 29 Weather Typing for Climate Extremes Read Doss-Gollin et al. (2018)
Fri., Oct. 31 Lab 8: Weather Typing Implementation
Mon., Nov. 3 Homogeneous and Non-Homogeneous Hidden Markov Models
Wed., Nov. 5 HMMs for Precipitation Downscaling Read Paper TBD
Fri., Nov. 7 Lab 9: HMM and NHMM Implementation
Mon., Nov. 10 Stochastic Weather Generators
Wed., Nov. 12 Weather Generators for Climate Impacts Read Paper TBD
Fri., Nov. 14 Lab 10: Weather Generator Implementation Final Project Draft Lecture Notes Due
Mon., Nov. 17 Global Sensitivity Analysis in Climate Studies Read Paper TBD
Wed., Nov. 19 PS2 Due & Module 2 Review PS2 Due
Fri., Nov. 21 Module 2 Test
Mon., Nov. 24 Workshop: Final Project Support
Wed., Nov. 26 No Class: Thanksgiving Week
Fri., Nov. 28 No Class: Thanksgiving Break
Mon., Dec. 1 Student Teaching Sessions
Wed., Dec. 3 Student Teaching Sessions
Fri., Dec. 5 Student Teaching Sessions & Course Wrap-up Final Project Teaching Presentation & Lecture Notes Due

References

Doss-Gollin, James, Ángel G Muñoz, Simon J Mason, and Max Pastén. 2018. “Heavy Rainfall in Paraguay During the 2015-2016 Austral Summer: Causes and Sub-Seasonal-to-Seasonal Predictive Skill.” Journal of Climate 31 (17): 6669–85. https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-17-0805.1.
Ines, Amor V. M., and James W. Hansen. 2006. “Bias Correction of Daily GCM Rainfall for Crop Simulation Studies.” Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 138 (1): 44–53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2006.03.009.