Noel LaSeur: June 25, 1922 - January 8, 2009

I was one of the fortunate few who had Noel as a mentor. Here are a few of his research papers. He will be missed.

• Improving Seasonal Hurricane Predictions for the Atlantic Basin (1995)
  
• A Measurement of the Velocity Field of a Cumulus Cloud (1973)
  
• A Low-Level Jet in the Tropics (1971)
  
• A Study of the Rainfall Patterns and Some Related Features in a Dissipating Hurricane (1957)
  
• A Study of High-Tropospheric Lapse Rates with Application to the Construction of 300-Millibar Charts (1949)
  

AMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ

The 2009 addition of the American Meteorological Society's annual meeting is being held here in Phoenix, Arizona. I am one of the instructors for a short course on the topic of statistics and extreme events. The Use R for Climate Research tutorial that I use for the course is available here.

Download R here and work through the tutorial by copying and pasting the code into an R session. Feel free to email me or Thomas Jagger questions.