Data analysis methods in physical oceanography /
Data acquisition and recording -- Introduction -- Basic sampling requirements -- Temperature -- Salinity -- Depth or pressure -- Sea-level measurement -- Eulerian currents -- Lagrangian current measurements -- Wind -- Precipitation -- Chemical tracers -- Transient chemical tracers -- Data processing...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Elsevier,
©2004
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| Edición: | 2nd and revised edition |
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| Sumario: | Data acquisition and recording -- Introduction -- Basic sampling requirements -- Temperature -- Salinity -- Depth or pressure -- Sea-level measurement -- Eulerian currents -- Lagrangian current measurements -- Wind -- Precipitation -- Chemical tracers -- Transient chemical tracers -- Data processing and presentation -- Introduction -- Calibration -- Interpolation -- Data presentation -- Statistical methods and error handling -- Sample distributions -- Probability -- Moments and expected values -- Common probability density functions -- Central limit theorem. Estimation -- Confidence intervals -- Slecting the sample size -- Confidence intervals for altimeter bias estimates -- Stimation methods -- Linear estimation (regression) -- Relationship between regression and correlation -- Hypothesis testing -- Effective degrees of freedom -- Editing and despiking techniques: the nature of errors -- Interpolation: filling the data gaps -- Covariance and the covariance matrix -- Bootstrap and jackknife methods -- The spatial analyses of data fields -- Traditional block and bulk averaging -- Objective analysis -- Empirical orthogonal functions -- Normal mode analysis -- Inverse methods -- Time-series analysis methods -- Basic concepts -- Stochastic processes and stationarity -- Correlation functions -- Fourier analysis -- Harmonic analysis -- Spectral analysis -- Spectral analysis (parametric methods) -- Cross-spectral analysis -- Wavelet analysis -- Digital filters -- Fractals. |
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| Descripción Física: | xvi, 638 páginas : ilustrado ; 25 cm |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 597-619) and index |
| ISBN: | 0444507566 (hardbound) 0444507574 (paperback) |