Suchergebnis: Katalogdaten im Herbstsemester 2020

Erd- und Klimawissenschaften Bachelor Information
Vertiefungen
Vertiefung Klima und Wasser
Für Beratungen in der Vertiefung Klima und Wasser steht Dr. Hanna Joos, Institut für Klima und Atmosphäre, zur Verfügung
Wahlfächer
Die aufgeführten Wahlfächer werden empfohlen.
Den Studierenden steht zusätzlich das gesamte Lehrangebot der ETH Zürich und der Universität Zürich zur Auswahl offen.
NummerTitelTypECTSUmfangDozierende
401-0649-00LApplied Statistical RegressionW5 KP2V + 1UM. Dettling
KurzbeschreibungThis course offers a practically oriented introduction into regression modeling methods. The basic concepts and some mathematical background are included, with the emphasis lying in learning "good practice" that can be applied in every student's own projects and daily work life. A special focus will be laid in the use of the statistical software package R for regression analysis.
LernzielThe students acquire advanced practical skills in linear regression analysis and are also familiar with its extensions to generalized linear modeling.
InhaltThe course starts with the basics of linear modeling, and then proceeds to parameter estimation, tests, confidence intervals, residual analysis, model choice, and prediction. More rarely touched but practically relevant topics that will be covered include variable transformations, multicollinearity problems and model interpretation, as well as general modeling strategies.

The last third of the course is dedicated to an introduction to generalized linear models: this includes the generalized additive model, logistic regression for binary response variables, binomial regression for grouped data and poisson regression for count data.
SkriptA script will be available.
LiteraturFaraway (2005): Linear Models with R
Faraway (2006): Extending the Linear Model with R
Draper & Smith (1998): Applied Regression Analysis
Fox (2008): Applied Regression Analysis and GLMs
Montgomery et al. (2006): Introduction to Linear Regression Analysis
Voraussetzungen / BesonderesThe exercises, but also the classes will be based on procedures from the freely available, open-source statistical software package R, for which an introduction will be held.

In the Mathematics Bachelor and Master programmes, the two course units 401-0649-00L "Applied Statistical Regression" and 401-3622-00L "Statistical Modelling" are mutually exclusive. Registration for the examination of one of these two course units is only allowed if you have not registered for the examination of the other course unit.
701-0535-00LEnvironmental Soil Physics/Vadose Zone HydrologyW3 KP2G + 2UP. U. Lehmann Grunder
KurzbeschreibungThe course provides theoretical and practical foundations for understanding and characterizing physical and transport properties of soils/ near-surface earth materials, and quantifying hydrological processes and fluxes of mass and energy at multiple scales.
LernzielStudents are able to
- characterize porous media at different scales
- parameterize structural, flow and transport properties of partially-saturated porous media
- quantify driving forces and resulting fluxes of water, solute, and heat in soils
- explain links between physical processes in the vadose-zone and major societal and environmental challenges
InhaltWeeks 1 to 3: Physical Properties of Soils and Other Porous Media – Units and dimensions, definitions and basic mass-volume relationships between the solid, liquid and gaseous phases; soil texture; particle size distributions; surface area; soil structure. Soil colloids and clay behavior

Soil Water Content and its Measurement - Definitions; measurement methods - gravimetric, neutron scattering, gamma attenuation; and time domain reflectometry; soil water storage and water balance.

Weeks 4 to 5: Soil Water Retention and Potential (Hydrostatics) - The energy state of soil water; total water potential and its components; properties of water (molecular, surface tension, and capillary rise); modern aspects of capillarity in porous media; units and calculations and measurement of equilibrium soil water potential components; soil water characteristic curves definitions and measurements; parametric models; hysteresis. Modern aspects of capillarity

Weeks 6 to 9: Water Flow in Soil - Hydrodynamics:
Part 1 - Laminar flow in tubes (Poiseuille's Law); Darcy's Law, conditions and states of flow; saturated flow; hydraulic conductivity and its measurement.

Part 2 - Unsaturated steady state flow; unsaturated hydraulic conductivity models and applications; non-steady flow and Richards equation; approximate solutions to infiltration (Green-Ampt, Philip); field methods for estimating soil hydraulic properties.

Part 3 - Use of Hydrus model for simulation of unsaturated flow

Week 10: Solute Transport in Soils; Transport mechanisms of solutes in porous media; breakthrough curves; convection-dispersion equation; solutions for pulse and step solute application; parameter estimation; salt balance.

Week 11: Gas transport in soil and biological processes; gas diffusion as function of water content, Fickian law, biological activity and respiration; root water uptake; soil structure

Week 12 to 13: Energy Balance and Land Atmosphere Interactions - Radiation and energy balance; evapotranspiration definitions and estimation; transpiration, plant development and transpirtation coefficients; small and large scale influences on hydrological cycle; surface evaporation.

Week 14: Temperature and Heat Flow in Porous Media - Soil thermal properties; steady state heat flow; nonsteady heat flow; estimation of thermal properties; engineering applications.
SkriptClassnotes: Vadose Zone Hydrology, by Or D., J.M. Wraith, and M. Tuller
(available at the beginning of the semester)
LiteraturSupplemental textbook (not mandatory) -Environmental Soil Physics, by: D. Hillel
401-0624-00LMathematik IV: Statistik Belegung eingeschränkt - Details anzeigen W4 KP2V + 1UJ. Ernest
KurzbeschreibungEinführung in einfache Methoden und grundlegende Begriffe von Statistik und Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung für Naturwissenschaftler. Die Konzepte werden anhand einiger Daten-Beispiele eingeführt.
LernzielFähigkeit, aus Daten zu lernen; kritischer Umgang mit Daten und mit Missbräuchen der Statistik; Grundverständnis für die Gesetze des Zufalls und stochastisches Denken (Denken in Wahrscheinlichkeiten); Fähigkeit, einfache und grundlegende Methoden der Analytischen (Schlussfolgernden) Statistik (z. B. diverse Tests) anzuwenden.
InhaltBeschreibende Statistik (einschliesslich graphischer Methoden).
Einführung in die Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung (Grundregeln, Zufallsvariable, diskrete und stetige Verteilungen, Ausblick auf Grenzwertsätze). Methoden der Analytischen Statistik: Schätzungen, Tests (einschliesslich Binomialtest, t-Test, Vorzeichentest, F-Test, Wilcoxon-Test), Vertrauensintervalle, Prognoseintervalle, Korrelation, einfache und multiple lineare Regression.
SkriptSkript zur Vorlesung ist erhältlich.
LiteraturStahel, W.: Statistische Datenanalyse. Vieweg 1995, 3. Auflage 2000 (als ergänzende Lektüre)
Voraussetzungen / BesonderesDie Übungen (ca. die Hälfte der Kontaktstunden; einschliesslich Computerübungen) sind ein wichtiger Bestandteil der Lehrveranstaltung.

Voraussetzungen: Mathematik I, II
» Auswahl aus dem gesamten Angebot der ETH.
701-0479-00LUmwelt-Fluiddynamik Information W3 KP2GH. Wernli, M. Röthlisberger
KurzbeschreibungDie physikalischen Grundbegriffe und mathematischen Grundgleichungen zur Beschreibung von Umweltfluidsystemen auf der rotierenden Erde werden vermittelt. Grundlegende Konzepte (z.B. Vorticity-Dynamik und Wellen) werden formal eingeführt, quantitativ angewendet und mit Beispielen illustriert. Übungen helfen, den Stoff zu vertiefen.
LernzielDie Studierenden können
- Grundlagen, Konzepte und Methoden der Umweltfluiddynamik nennen.
- die Komponenten der Grundgleichungen verstehen und diskutieren.
- physikalische Grundgleichungen zur Berechnung einfacher Problemstellungen der Umweltfluiddynamik anwenden.
InhaltPhysikalische Grundbegriffe und mathematische Grundgleichungen:
Kontinuumshypothese, Kräfte, Konstitutivgesetze, Zustandsgleichungen und Grundlagen der Thermodynamik, Kinematik, Sätze für Masse, Impuls auf der rotierenden Erde.
Konzepte und erläuternde Strömungssysteme: Vorticity-Dynamik, Grenzschichten, Instabilität, Turbulenz - in Bezug auf Umweltfluidsysteme.
Skalen-Analyse: Dimensionslose Variable und dynamische Ähnlichkeit, Vereinfachungen der Strömungssysteme, z.B. Flachwasserannahme, geostrophische Strömung.
Wellen in Umweltströmungssystemen.
SkriptWird abgegeben, in englischer Sprache.
LiteraturBesprechung im Kurs.
Siehe auch: web-Seite.
401-6215-00LUsing R for Data Analysis and Graphics (Part I) Belegung eingeschränkt - Details anzeigen W1.5 KP1GM. Mächler
KurzbeschreibungThe course provides the first part an introduction to the statistical software R (https://www.r-project.org/) for scientists. Topics covered are data generation and selection, graphical and basic statistical functions, creating simple functions, basic types of objects.
LernzielThe students will be able to use the software R for simple data analysis and graphics.
InhaltThe course provides the first part of an introduction to the statistical software R for scientists. R is free software that contains a huge collection of functions with focus on statistics and graphics. If one wants to use R one has to learn the programming language R - on very rudimentary level. The course aims to facilitate this by providing a basic introduction to R.

Part I of the course covers the following topics:
- What is R?
- R Basics: reading and writing data from/to files, creating vectors & matrices, selecting elements of dataframes, vectors and matrices, arithmetics;
- Types of data: numeric, character, logical and categorical data, missing values;
- Simple (statistical) functions: summary, mean, var, etc., simple statistical tests;
- Writing simple functions;
- Introduction to graphics: scatter-, boxplots and other high-level plotting functions, embellishing plots by title, axis labels, etc., adding elements (lines, points) to existing plots.

The course focuses on practical work at the computer. We will make use of the graphical user interface RStudio: www.rstudio.org

Note: Part I of UsingR is complemented and extended by Part II, which is offered during the second part of the semester and which can be taken independently from Part I.
SkriptAn Introduction to R. http://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/doc/contrib/Lam-IntroductionToR_LHL.pdf
Voraussetzungen / BesonderesThe course resources will be provided via the Moodle web learning platform.
Subscribing via Mystudies should *automatically* make you
a student participant of the Moodle course of this lecture, which is at

https://moodle-app2.let.ethz.ch/course/view.php?id=13499

ALL material is available on this moodle page.
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