It is the students' responsibility to ensure that groups have 3 members. Marks will be deducted if you do not attempt to get 3 members in each group.



Two Projects:

  1. project link; Project 2 (value 5%) due Wed. March 30 (before start of class).

    • Same procedure as for Project 1.
    • Students are required to work on projects in groups of three;

      Marks distribution for a typical project are as follows

      Introduction and Background : 10
      Modeling : 25
      Data : 10
      Computation : 15
      Analysis (including sensitivity analysis!) : 15
      Final report write-up : 25

  2. Project 1; marks file
    This project used ideas from Local Warming, by Robert J. Vanderbei, April, 2011 (in particular, see the new pages at the end)

    • current list of chosen stations (please do not choose a station already on this list)

    • project link (value 5%); Project 1 is due Mar 2.

    • Miscellaneous Info/Links:
      • Data/download insructions/graphing;
          agree to terms; see e.g. Data Files (All Years) and checkout the Anonymous FTP Instructions.
          You can checkout the readme.txt file
      • Use e.g. get the files at the ftp website ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/gsod using the unix commands for the year 1970:
        wget ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/gsod/1970/724096-14706-1970.op.gz
        and
        gunzip 724096-14706-1970.op.gz
      • See the file: country-list.txt, and ISH-HISTORY.TXT (Canadian sites start with the line: 710010 99999 CALLAGHAN VALLEY SK CN CA BC CVOW +50133 -123100 +09360 20070424 20100413)
        • You can get/install wget yourself, e.g. see the link GNU Wget. You can then use this in e.g. a loop in windows such as: FOR %variable IN (set) DO command [command-parameters]
        • A corresponding loop in unix would be e.g. 
          for year in 2010 2009 1954 1955 1933 1932
do
  echo $f
  wget ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/gsod/$year/710010-12345-$year.op.gz
  wget ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/gsod/$year/710010-99999-$year.op.gz
done

  • Students are required to work on projects in groups of three; please form your groups ASAP and send the list to the instructor. Please come see the instructor if you do not have a group of exactly three.

    Marks distribution for a typical project are as follows

    Introduction and Background : 10
    Modeling : 25
    Data : 10
    Computation : 15
    Analysis (including sensitivity analysis!) : 15
    Final report write-up : 25

    Sample projects from the past are available for browsing from H.Wolkowicz (instructor); you may come by during office hours and browse project reports (this has to be done in the office). The office hours are posted under the "syllabus" tab.