Statistical methods in the atmospheric sciences Praise for the First Edition: I recommend this book without hesitation as either a reference or course text ... Wilks excellent book provides a thorough base in applied statistical methods for atmospheric sciences. BAMS (Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society) Fundamentally statistics is concerned with managing data and making inferences and forecasts in the face of uncertainty. It should not be surprising therefore that statistical methods have a key role to play in the atmospheric sciences. It is the uncertainty in atmospheric behavior that continues to move research forward and drive innovations in atmospheric modeling and prediction. This revised and expanded text explains the latest statistical methods that are being used to describe analyze test and forecast atmospheric data. It features numerous worked examples illustrations equations and exercises with separate solutions. Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences Second Edition will help advanced students and professionals understand and communicate what their data sets have to say and make sense of the scientific literature in meteorology climatology and related disciplines. Accessible presentation and explanation of techniques for atmospheric data summarization analysis testing and forecasting Many worked examples End of chapter exercises with answers provided I Preliminaries Ch. 1 Introduction Ch. 2 Review of Probability II Univariate Statistics Ch. 3 Empirical Distributions and Exploratory Data Analysis Ch. 4 Parametric Probability Distributions Ch. 5 Frequentist Statistical Inference Ch. 6 Bayesian Inference Ch. 7 Statistical Forecasting Ch. 8 Forecast Verification Ch. 9 Time Series III Multivariate Statistics Ch. 10 Matrix Algebra and Random Matrices Ch. 11 The Multivariate Normal (MVN) Distribution Ch. 12 Principal Component (EOF) Analysis Ch. 13 Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) Ch. 14 Discrimination and Classification Ch. 15 Cluster Analysis Appendix A Example Data Sets Appendix B Probability Tables Appendix C Answers to Exercises References Index