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