Statistical Analysis in Climate Research
- Hans von Storch &
- Francis W. Zwiers
Cambridge University Press: 1999. 494 pp. £65, $110
An article published last year called “Statistics education in the atmospheric sciences” by Timothy Brown and four other leading meteorological and climatological statisticians lists 16 statistical books that emphasize applications to atmospheric science. Of these, only four have the breadth and internal cohesion to qualify as textbooks for classroom use. Three of these have appeared since 1994, more than 35 years after the publication of the first, the venerable Some Applications of Statistics to Meteorology by Hans A. Panofsky and Glenn W. Brier. The most recent on the list, Statistical Analysis in Climate Research by Hans von Storch and Francis W. Zwiers, is easily the most ambitious and, from the standpoint of a practising dynamic climatologist (from graduate student to senior level), the most valuable. The book is substantial in scope, rigour and its oversized format, and extraordinarily thorough in content. Very little of importance to the subject area is left untreated, which is hardly surprising considering the stature of the authors, two of the leading academicians in the science of climate variability.
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