subject	Analysis of Climate Data 1
lecturers	Dr. Barcza Zoltán, associate professor
credits	0+2=2
period	1
curriculum	Preparation and application of computer programs in FORTRAN 77 or FORTRAN 90.. Importance of verification of the algorithm. Mathematical calculations with real meteorological data. Organizing code using subroutines and functions, usefulness of Makefile. Handling of missing data using MS Excel and FORTRAN. Calculation of simple statistical parameters, postprocessing of the results in MS Excel.
literature	Hans von Storch, Francis W. Zwiers , 1999: Statistical Analysis in Climate Research, Cambridge University Press.
form of tuition	practical exercises
mode of assessment	reporting

subject	Analysis of Climate Data 2
lecturers	Dr. Barcza Zoltán, associate professor
credits	1+3=4
period	2
curriculum	Possible sources of climate related data on the Internet. The IPCC reports in a nutshell, the Met Office Hadley Centre/CRU estimations. The NetCDF data format, advantages of using NetCDF. The COARDS and the CF convention. The CRU TS 1.2 and 2.1 datasets, practical examples using CRU data. Introduction to GrADS scripts. Creating flat binary files with GrADS for FORTRAN. Calculation and visualization of climate diagrams. Exporting 2D meteorological fields from GrADS, reading the data with FORTRAN, data manipulation with 2D fields. Creating binary output with FORTRAN and reading the result with GrADS.
literature	Woods, A. (2006). Medium-Range Weather Prediction - the European Approach. Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-26928-3. GrADS tutorial: http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/tutorial.html ECMWF newsletters online: http://www.ecmwf.int/publications/newsletters/ NetCDF documantation: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/ COARDS convention: http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/noaa_coop/coop_cdf_profile.html Climate and Forecast (CF) Metadata convention: http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/ wgrib documentation: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/wesley/wgrib.html
form of tuition	practical exercises
mode of assessment	reporting