Data Analysis Methods in Physical Oceanography

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 dataCo-authored by scientists from academe and industry, both of whom have more than 30 years of experience in oceanographic research and field workSignificant revision of sections covering spectral, wavelet, and harmonic analysis techniquesExamples address typical data analysis problems yet provide the reader with formulaic “recipes” for working with their own dataSignificant expansion to 350 figures, illustrations, diagrams and photos

1. Data Acquisition and Recording 2. Data Processing and Presentation 3. Statistical Methods and Error Handling 4. The Spatial Analyses of Data Fields 5. Time-series Analysis Methods 6. Digital Filters

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 v Appendix F: Approximations and nondimensional numbers in physical oceanography Appendix G: Convolution