Data Analysis Methods in Physical Oceanography.
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- computer
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- 9780123877833
- 551.460285
- GC57 .T384 2014
Front Cover -- DATA ANALYSIS METHODS IN PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- 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 -- References -- Appendix G - Convolution -- Appendix G CONVOLUTION AND FOURIER TRANSFORMS -- Appendix G CONVOLUTION OF DISCRETE DATA -- Appendix G CONVOLUTION AS TRUNCATION OF AN INFINITE TIME SERIES -- Appendix G DECONVOLUTION -- Index.
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