Martin H. Trauth, University of Potsdam, Germany
I received a negative review on Amazon. That’s always a bad thing, whether or not it is justified (see this older example). As Amazon no longer allows a reply, I’m posting it here, because other readers are probably also bothered by the way the first edition of the Python book dealt with missing subchapters and illustrations compared to the MATLAB book. And there is good news, in the second edition we have solved the problem!
We published a new paper on early warning signals of the termination of the African Humid Period(s) in the journal Nature Communications. A very close look at the sediments of the Chew Bahir Basin in South Ethiopia provides new insights into the structure of climate transitions in Africa. Wet climate did not simply become drier; it flickered rapidly between wet and dry, which posed major challenges for the humans in the region. Continue reading “New Paper on “Early warning signals of the termination of the African Humid Period(s)” Published in Nature Communications”
In Juli 2024, the 6th edition of “MATLAB Recipes for Earth Sciences” (Springer 2024) and the 2nd edition of “Python Recipes for Earth Sciences” (Springer 2024) will be released. Continue reading “New Editions (2024) of MATLAB and Python Recipes for Earth Sciences”
About four years ago, I published a post on reading meteorological data from a Netatmo weather station. Since then, Netatmo has changed the authentication process. Here is an update of my MATLAB scripts for the weather station. Continue reading “ThingSpeak IoT Weather Station Update”
The German version of the 1th edition of Python Recipes for Earth Sciences is out. Thanks to the subject of SpringerSpektrum for the professional support in the realization of the project.
Continue reading “German Translation of Python Recipes for Earth Sciences Published”
In my book Signal and Noise, I use LEGO MINDSTORMS components alongside smartphones and other technical devices to demonstrate methods of data acquisition in the geosciences. Here is an update. Continue reading “MATLAB/LEGO MINDSTORMS Practical Update”
The Community tab of the MathWorks website now offers the new AI Chat Playground. This allows you to transfer programming tasks to an AI – and try them out directly. Continue reading “The New MATLAB AI Chat Playground”
After 30 years of teaching statistical methods in the geosciences, I would like to give a few tips for our next generation. Back then, I was in awe of a term like chi-square test and kept my hands off it for a long time. However, I could not avoid complicated methods such as spectral analysis and filtering, because my doctoral project was about signal processing of paleoceanographic time series. Here we go. Continue reading “Statistics in Earth Sciences in 6 Steps”