Studies in the Atmospheric Sciences

The need to understand and predict the processes that influence the Ea rth's atmosphere is one of the grand scientific challenges for the nex t century. Due to the complexity of observational data and the variabi lity of geophysical phenomena at many spatial and temporal scales, sta tistical science has an important role to play in this effort. This vo lume is a series of case studies and review chapters that cover many o f the recent developments in statistical methodology that are useful f …