Guest 5

Lecture 19 - February 24th, 2017

Guest Lecture

By David E. Atkinson (Department of Geography - Uvic)

Computer Applications in Geography Conducted by the Atkiinson Research Lab

Alaska in Nome --> High Country and Northern Weather Impacts Laboratory

  • RAM Random Access Memory
  • Punch Cards Old Coding Method
  • 9 Track Serial Access Memory
  • Virtual Machine
  • GEMPAK
  • Modeling Prometheus
  • R

Research Main Focus Area

  • Atmospheric Activity
  • Impacts of Atmospheric Activity
    • Physical Marine State
    • End User Consideration
  • Focus Geographical Region
    • Western AK
    • Western Cdn Artic, North Pac.
    • ...
    • ...

Data Handling Challanges

  • Too much data
  • Reading the Data
  • Parsing the Data
    • wget -> Fetch the http address
    • select -> The data you want
    • Clean up script -> Remove Empty Events
  • CSV Data -> Exel Format (Standard Format)
  • Txt File
  • Packed grided Format
    • Binary Level Extractor

Aandera RDCP 600:

Wave / SST buoy: (AOOS Partnership)

  • Websites: Low Bandwidth, Low Tech

Met towers on icefields:

Computational and Analytic

  • Analysis of severe Bering sea storm
  • Extremes analysis
  • Wave state analysis
  • costal wave energy through marginal ice
  • track climatologies
  • assessing lagrangian
  • novel storminess metrics