Interested in doing a PhD in Atmospheric Science? Please see this webpage for a list of available projects.
| Course notes for Paul's part of the course | Click here to see a video of how to install GNU Octave (free version of MATLAB) | University Podcast service |
| Lecture 1: | Intro to Stats and Data |
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| Lecture 2: | Descriptive Stats and Outliers |
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| Lecture 3: | The Normal Distribution and Central Limit Theorem |
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| Not used: | Estimates and Sample sizes |
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| Reading week: | Mid-term in your own time |
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| Lecture 4: | Hypothesis Testing about a proportion or a mean |
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| Lecture 5: | Hypothesis Testing about two proportions / means |
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| Lecture 6: | Correlation, regression and error propagation |
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| Lecture 7: | Modelling and time-series analysis |
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Just for fun: notes on a shallow water model in MATLAB able to simulate various atmospheric phenomena.
Please note, I will update the slides as I go along with findings from my research.
| Manchester Ice Cloud Chamber | Our cloud chamber for conducting research into cloud processes |
| Wetter3 | site for GFS model and surface charts |
| ManUniCast | our own model |
| Whitworth Observatory | Our own observatory here in Manchester |
| EUMETRAIN | overlay met. fields on satellite images (via eport) |
| Satellite pictures | from SAT24.com |
Is climate engineering worth the effort? Perform a cost-benefit analysis of a climate engineering proposal to mitigate against climate change.
Ice nucleation study Investigate the effect of acidity on heteorogeneous ice nucleation to explain a problem we have found.
Automated classification of ice crystal images There is a wealth of ice crystal image data that we have taken on various field projects. Devise a method of automatically determining their shape in this project
A simulation of the solar system in MATLAB use accurate ODE solvers to simulate dynamics of planetary orbits
Saturn's hexagon write a shallow water model in polar coordinates to attempt to simulate Saturn's hexagon: a planetary-scale wave that has the appearance of a regular hexagon.
Gravitational field strengths Calculate the gravitational field strength of different shaped objects
Gaussian Plume Model in MATLAB Understand how vertical stability in the atmosphere affects the dispersion of pollution from a stack.