A short course on analyzing global climate change with J-DSP/ESE tools will be conducted as a part of the Geological Society of America meeting to be held in Minnesota, Minneapolis from October 9-12, 2011.

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Description:

Analysis of Earth system signals important to the assessment of global climate change and sustainability will be conducted with the free online Java–Digital Signal Processing (J-DSP)/Earth Systems Edition (ESE) Laboratory. An introduction to basic signal processing will be followed by a tutorial on climate change assessment that examines modern records of global surface temperature, atmospheric carbon dioxide, and sea level. The objective is to understand the dynamics of these critical Earth surface components, the evidence for and nature of their interactions, and how to forecast their behavior in the near future.

1) Learn basic signal processing with the online J-DSP/ESE Laboratory    

       - Signal and noise
       - Trend estimation
       - Spectral analysis
       - Filtering; differencing
       - Correlation; coherency

2) Analyze instrumental time series data of critical climate components/drivers

       - Global temperature records (GISS, NCDC, HadCrut)
       - Atmospheric carbon dioxide/fossil fuel emissions records
       - Global sea level records (tidal gauge v. satellite)

3) Address fundamental questions such as

       - What are the variations (frequencies) in these records?
       - Do fossil fuel emissions explain the rise in pCO₂?
       - How is pCO₂ correlated with global temperature?
       - Does global temperature correlate with sea level?
       - Forecasting temperature and sea level change for the next 10, 50, 100 years?

More details on the short course  are available here.