Academic Catalog

MASC560 ADVANCED STATISTICS & DATA ANALYSIS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Course Code:	9500560
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week):	3(3-0)
ECTS Credit:	8.0
Department:	Graduate School Of Marine Sciences
Language of Instruction:	English
Level of Study:	Graduate
Course Coordinator:	Lecturer Dr. ÞADÝ SÝNAN ARKIN
Offered Semester:	Fall and Spring Semesters.

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.