American Meteorological Society

Committee on Probability and Statistics

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Statements


Terms of Reference: AMS Committee on Probability and Statistics (Aug. 1996)
AMS Statement: Enhancing Weather Information with Probability Forecasts (May 2008)


Past Conferences


AMS Conferences

List of all AMS conferences on probability and statistics (History)
15th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, 8-11 May 2000, Asheville, North Carolina (Program)
16th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, 13-17 January 2002, Orlando, Florida (Program)
17th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, 11-15 January 2004, Seattle, Washington (Program)
18th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, 29 January - 2 February 2006, Atlanta, Georgia (Program)
19th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, 21-24 January 2008, New Orleans, Louisiana (Program)

Other Conferences

9th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology (9IMSC), 25-28 May 2004, Cape Town, South Africa
The International Environmetrics Society (TIES 2005), 21 - 26 August 2005, Beijing, China
The International Environmetrics Society (TIES 2006), 18 - 22 June 2006, Kalmar, Sweden
The International Environmetrics Society (TIES 2007), 16 - 20 August 2007, Mikulov, Czech Republic
10th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology (10IMSC), 20-24 August 2007, Beijing, China


Future Conferences


AMS Conferences

20th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences (Location and date to be determined)

Other Conferences

The International Environmetrics Society (TIES 2008), 8 - 13 June 2008, Kelowna, British Columbia
11th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology, summer 2010, Edinburgh, Scotland (tentative)


Short Courses


Past Courses

Significance Testing, Model Evaluation, and Alternatives, AMS 17th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, 11 January 2004, Seattle, Washington
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Probabilistic Forecasting, AMS 85th Annual Meeting, 9 January 2005, San Diego, California
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Presentations
Methods and Problems of Downscaling Weather and Climate Variables, AMS 18th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, 29 January 2006, Atlanta, Georgia
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Ensemble Prediction: Conveying Forecast Uncertainty, AMS 87th Annual Meeting, 14 January 2007, San Antonio, Texas
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Statistical Methods and Software for Hurricane and Tropical Storm Prediction, AMS 88th Annual Meeting, 20 January 2008, New Orleans, Louisiana
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Presentations

Future Courses

Topic to be selected, AMS 89th Annual Meeting, 11 January 2009, Phoenix, Arizona (Tentative)


AMS P&S Committee Members


Richard W. Katz (Chair), NCAR, Boulder, CO
William (Matt) Briggs, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI
David R. Bright, NOAA/NWS/Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK
J. Paul Dallavalle, NOAA/NWS/Meteorological Development Laboratory, Silver Spring, MD
Elizabeth E. Ebert, Bureau of Meteorology Research Group, Melbourne, Australia
James B. Elsner, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Thomas M. Hamill, NOAA Earth System Research Lab, Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO
Elise V. Johnson (Student member), University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL
Cecile Penland, NOAA Earth System Research Lab, Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO
David B. Stephenson, University of Exeter, UK
Claudia Tebaldi, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Marina M. Timofeyeva, NOAA/NWS/Climate Services Division, Silver Spring, MD
Harry R. Glahn (ex-officio), NOAA/NWS/Meteorological Development Laboratory, Silver Spring, MD

Addresses of committee members


Links


Organizations

American Statistical Association (ASA) Section on Statistics and the Environment (ENVR)
Center for Integrating Statistical and Environmental Science (CISES)
International Meetings on Statistical Climatology (IMSC)
NCAR Geophysical Statistics Project (GSP)
Northwest Research Center for Statistics and the Environment (NRCSE)
The International Environmetrics Society (TIES)

Software

Penn State: Statistical software for astronomy/related fields
The R Project for Statistical Computing
Software: Bayesian Inference for the Physical Sciences


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