Data analysis methods in physical oceanography

✍ Scribed by Richard E Thomson; William J Emery

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 716
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Dedication, Page v
Preface, Pages ix-x
Acknowledgments, Page xi
Chapter 1 - Data Acquisition and Recording, Pages 1-186
Chapter 2 - Data Processing and Presentation, Pages 187-218
Chapter 3 - Statistical Methods and Error Handling, Pages 219-311
Chapter 4 - The Spatial Analyses of Data Fields, Pages 313-424
Chapter 5 - Time Series Analysis Methods, Pages 425-591
Chapter 6 - Digital Filters, Pages 593-637
References, Pages 639-664
Appendix A - Units in Physical Oceanography, Pages 665-667
Appendix B - Glossary of Statistical Terminology, Pages 669-672
Appendix C - Means, Variances and Moment-Generating Functions for Some Common Continuous Variables, Page 673
Appendix D - Statistical Tables, Pages 675-686
Appendix E - Correlation Coefficients at the 5% and 1% Levels of Significance for Various Degrees of Freedom ν, Pages 687-688
Appendix F - Approximations and Nondimensional Numbers in Physical Oceanography, Pages 689-695
Appendix G - Convolution, Pages 697-700
Index, Pages 701-716