Katz teaches intensive course on climate extremes at University of Buenos Aires

Project investigator Rick Katz (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado) taught an intensive one-day course on statistical modeling of extremes in climate change at the Department of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. The course, which took place on October 2nd 2009, was attended by about 30 students and researchers from the University of Buenos Aires and other Argentine institutions, such as the National Met Service and the Navy Met Service.

The course covered the application of the statistical theory of extreme values to climate, in general, and to climate change, in particular. An innovative aspect was the incorporation of both trends and physically-based covariates into analysis of extremes.The course included two hands-on sessions using the library extRemes for extreme value analysis available within the open source statistical programming language R.

Rick Katz delivers one of the lectures	Dr. Celeste Saulo, Director of the Dept. of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences introduces the course
Course attendants listen to lectures	Hands-on exercises

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