MASC560 ADVANCED STATISTICS & DATA ANALYSIS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Course Code:9500560
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week):3 (3.00 - 0.00)
ECTS Credit:8.0
Department:Graduate School of Marine Sciences
Language of Instruction:English
Level of Study:Graduate
Course Coordinator:Lecturer Dr. ŞADİ SİNAN ARKIN
Offered Semester:Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Objectives


Course Content

This course is intended to introduce contemporary techniques used for the analyzing spatio-temporal data sets in oceanography. The topics of interest include data acquisition and processing, interpolation, empirical orthogonal functions, spectral analysis, wavelet analysis, digital filters and data assimilation. A high-level computational environment will be used to analyze oceanographic data sets through the practical implementation of the methods learned in the lectures.


Course Learning Outcomes