Gidon Eshel
Dept. of the Geophysical Sciences
The Univ. of Chicago
401 Hinds
5734 S. Ellis Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637
Office Tel: (773) 702-0440
Home Tel: (773) 955-4058
geshel@uchicago.edu

Class Notes for GeoSci 236

Data Analysis in the Earth Sciences (II):
Applications to Spatio-Temporal Data



  • Organizational Stuff
  • MATLAB Mini-Intro
  • somebody else's MATLAB Intro
  • Linear Algebra I
  • Gram-Schmidt Orthonormalization
  • Linear Algebra II
  • The Algebra of SVD
  • Basics
  • Regression and Least Squares
  • The Fundamental Theorem of Linear Algebra
  • Reshaping for Eigenanalysis of a 3D Dataset into a Matrix
  • Harmonic Fit
  • EOFs
  • Two-Field Analysis Using SVD
  • Demonstration of Some Eigen-Techniques
  • Real Data Demonstration of EOF and SVD Analyses
  • Real Mediterranean Data SVD Analysis
  • Cross-Validation
  • ANOVA, Goodness of fit
  • Some Solved Example Problems
  • Some More Solved Example Problems
  • Final 2004
  • Data Sources and Utilities
  • Homework Assignments
  • miscellaneous but somewhat related things