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Data Analysis Methods in Physical Oceanography
3rd Edition - July 14, 2014
Authors: Richard E. Thomson, William J. Emery
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:9780123877826
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eBook ISBN:9780123877833
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Data Analysis Methods in Physical Oceanography, Third Edition is a practical reference to established and modern data analysis techniques in earth and ocean sciences. Its five majo…Read more
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Data Analysis Methods in Physical Oceanography, Third Edition is a practical reference to established and modern data analysis techniques in earth and ocean sciences. Its five major sections address data acquisition and recording, data processing and presentation, statistical methods and error handling, analysis of spatial data fields, and time series analysis methods. The revised Third Edition updates the instrumentation used to collect and analyze physical oceanic data and adds new techniques including Kalman Filtering. Additionally, the sections covering spectral, wavelet, and harmonic analysis techniques are completely revised since these techniques have attracted significant attention over the past decade as more accurate and efficient data gathering and analysis methods.
Completely updated and revised to reflect new filtering techniques and major updating of the instrumentation used to collect and analyze data
Co-authored by scientists from academe and industry, both of whom have more than 30 years of experience in oceanographic research and field work
Significant revision of sections covering spectral, wavelet, and harmonic analysis techniques
Examples address typical data analysis problems yet provide the reader with formulaic “recipes” for working with their own data
Significant expansion to 350 figures, illustrations, diagrams and photos
Oceanographers, atmospheric scientists, meteorologists, climatologists, and upper-undergraduate and graduate students studying statistical methods in oceanography, meteorology, and climatology
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Data Acquisition and Recording
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Basic Sampling Requirements
1.3. Temperature
1.4. Salinity
1.5. Depth or Pressure
1.6. Sea-Level Measurement
1.7. Eulerian currents
1.8. Lagrangian Current Measurements
1.9. Wind
1.10. Precipitation
1.11. Chemical tracers
1.12. Transient chemical tracers
Chapter 2. Data Processing and Presentation
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Calibration
2.3. Interpolation
2.4. Data Presentation
Chapter 3. Statistical Methods and Error Handling
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Sample Distributions
3.3. Probability
3.4. Moments and Expected Values
3.5. Common PDFs
3.6. Central Limit Theorem
3.7. Estimation
3.8. Confidence Intervals
3.9. Selecting the Sample Size
3.10. Confidence Intervals for Altimeter-Bias Estimates
3.11. Estimation Methods
3.12. Linear Estimation (Regression)
3.13. Relationship between Regression and Correlation
3.14. Hypothesis Testing
3.15. Effective Degrees of Freedom
3.16. Editing and Despiking Techniques: The Nature of Errors
3.17. Interpolation: Filling the Data Gaps
3.18. Covariance and the Covariance Matrix
3.19. The Bootstrap and Jackknife Methods
Chapter 4. The Spatial Analyses of Data Fields
4.1. Traditional Block and Bulk Averaging
4.2. Objective Analysis
4.3. Kriging
4.4. Empirical Orthogonal Functions
4.5. Extended Empirical Orthogonal Functions
4.6. Cyclostationary EOFs
4.7. Factor Analysis
4.8. Normal Mode Analysis
4.9. Self Organizing Maps
4.10. Kalman Filters
4.11. Mixed Layer Depth Estimation
4.12. Inverse Methods
Chapter 5. Time Series Analysis Methods
5.1. Basic Concepts
5.2. Stochastic Processes and Stationarity
5.3. Correlation Functions
5.4. Spectral Analysis
5.5. Spectral Analysis (Parametric Methods)
5.6. Cross-Spectral Analysis
5.7. Wavelet Analysis
5.8. Fourier Analysis
5.9. Harmonic Analysis
5.10. Regime Shift Detection
5.11. Vector Regression
5.12. Fractals
Chapter 6. Digital Filters
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Basic Concepts
6.3. Ideal Filters
6.4. Design of Oceanographic Filters
6.5. Running-Mean Filters
6.6. Godin-Type Filters
6.7. Lanczos-window cosine filters
6.8. Butterworth Filters
6.9. Kaiser–Bessel Filters
6.10. Frequency-Domain (Transform) Filtering
References
Appendix A: Units in Physical Oceanography
Appendix B: Glossary of Statistical Terminology
Appendix C: Means, Variances and Moment-Generating Functions for Some Common Continuous Variables
Appendix D: Statistical Tables
Appendix E: Correlation Coefficients at the 5% and 1% Levels of Significance for Various Degrees of Freedom ν
Appendix F: Approximations and Nondimensional Numbers in Physical Oceanography
Appendix G: Convolution
Index
No. of pages: 728
Language: English
Edition: 3
Published: July 14, 2014
Imprint: Elsevier Science
Paperback ISBN: 9780123877826
eBook ISBN: 9780123877833
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Richard E. Thomson
Richard E. Thomson is a researcher in coastal and deep-sea physical oceanography within the Ocean Sciences Division. Coastal oceanographic processes on the continental shelf and slope including coastally trapped waves, upwelling and baroclinic instability; hydrothermal venting and the physics of buoyant plumes; linkage between circulation and zooplankton biomass aggregations at hydrothermal venting sites; analysis and modelling of landslide generated tsunamis; paleoclimate using tree ring records and sediment cores from coastal inlets and basins.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Research Scientist and Head of the Ocean Dynamics and Processes Section, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
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William J. Emery
William (Bill) Emery worked as a professor in Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado from 1987, prior to which he worked in the University of British Columbia where he created a Satellite Oceanography education/research program. He has authored over 220-refereed publications and 4 textbooks in addition to having given 200 conference papers. He is a fellow of: the IEEE (2002), the American Meteorological Society (2010), the American Astronautical Society (2011) and the American Geophysical Union (2012). He was recently elected to the IEEE TAB Hall of Honor (2020). In 2022 he received the GRSS Fawaz Ulaby Distinguised Achievement Award.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
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