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6th GKSS School of Environmental Research

School on Statistical Analysis in Climate Research


To be held in Lecce, Italy,

from 6-16 October 2009.

Confirmed contributors:

  • Antonio Navarra, CMCC, Bologna, Italy:
    • Statistical thinking in climate science
    • Climate modelling
  • Hans von Storch, GKSS, Geesthacht, Germany:
    • Pattern analysis - EOFs, SVD, POPs, MCA, CCA
    • Storm proxies
  • Jin-Song von Storch, Max Planck Institute, Hamburg, Germany
    • Time series analysis - autocorrelation functions and spectra
    • Fluctuation/dissipation theory
  • Francis Zwiers, Environment Canada, Toronto, Canada:
    • Detection and attribution
    • Climate Extremes
  • Armin Bunde, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Giessen, Germany:
    • Long term memory
    • Networks
  • Søren Johanssen, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark:
    • Cointegration in non-stationary time series
  • Phil Jones, Director of Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom:
    • Homogeneity and homogeneization of climate data
    • "Analysis" data sets - CRU, ERA
  • Eduardo Zorita, GKSS, Geesthacht, Germany:
    • Testing advanced statistical models in the context of extended climate simulations
  • Jürg Luterbacher, University of Bern, Switzerland, and Department of Geography, University of Giessen, Germany:
    • Proxy climate data
    • Constructing comprehensive historical climate variations
  • Robert Livezey, NOAA, Silver Springs, USA:
    • Basic Considerations and Best Practices for Correlations
    • PCA and significance / confidence in climate analysis
  • Richard Tol, Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland:
    • Conditional Heteroskedasticity in Meteorological Data
  • Dennis Lettenmaier, Surface Water Hydrology Research Group, University of Washington, Seattle, USA:
    • Trend detection in the presence of temporal persistence
    • Statistics of hydrologic extremes

Contributors yet to be confirmed:
  • Simona Masima, CMCC, Lecce, Italy
  • Keith Briffa, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom