did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

We're the #1 textbook rental company. Let us show you why.

9780120188413

Advances in Geophysics

by ;
  • ISBN13:

    9780120188413

  • ISBN10:

    0120188414

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 7/2/1999
  • Publisher: Elsevier Science
  • Purchase Benefits
  • Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping On Orders Over $35!
    Your order must be $35 or more to qualify for free economy shipping. Bulk sales, PO's, Marketplace items, eBooks and apparel do not qualify for this offer.
  • eCampus.com Logo Get Rewarded for Ordering Your Textbooks! Enroll Now
List Price: $235.00

Summary

This series provides a venue for longer reviews of current advances in geophysics. Written at a level accessible to graduate students, the articles serve to broaden knowledge of various fields and may be useful in courses and seminars.

Table of Contents

Contributors vii
Oscillatory Spatiotemporal Signal Detection in Climate Studies: A Multiple-Taper Spectral Domain Approach
Michael E. Mann
Jeffrey Park
Introduction
1(5)
Motivation and Overview
1(2)
Signal and Noise in Climate Data: Dynamical Mechanisms
3(3)
Traditional Methods of Oscillatory Climate Signal Detection
6(24)
Signal and Noise Assumptions: A Synthetic Data Set
7(10)
Conventional Approaches to Signal Detection
17(13)
MTM-SVD Multivariate Frequency-Domain Climate Signal Detection and Reconstruction
30(11)
Signal Detection
31(3)
Signal Reconstruction
34(2)
Testing the Null Hypothesis: Significance Estimation
36(5)
Application to Synthetic Data Set
41(80)
Effects of Sampling Inhomogeneties
45(4)
Applications of MTM-SVD Approach to Observational and Model Climate Data
49(2)
Global Temperature Data
51(21)
Northern Hemisphere Joint Surface Temperature and Sea-Level Pressure Data
72(29)
Long-Term Multiproxy Temperature Data
101(10)
Seasonal Cycle: Observations vs CO2-Forced Model Simulations
111(10)
Conclusion
121(12)
Acknowledgments
122(1)
References
123(10)
Numerical Models of Crustal Deformation in Seismic Zones
Steven C. Cohen
Introduction
133(6)
Elastic Half-Space Model of the Earthquake Cycle for an Infinitely Long Strike-Slip Fault: An Illustrative Model
137(2)
Coseismic Deformation
139(23)
Elastic Dislocation Theory
139(6)
Early Applications of Dislocation Theory
145(7)
Extensions beyond the Uniform Elastic Half-Space Model
152(6)
The Finite-Element Method
158(4)
Time-Dependent Effects
162(42)
Deep Fault Creep
162(1)
Viscoelastic Flow
163(15)
Kinematic Models of the Entire Earthquake Cycle
178(11)
Other Issues
189(15)
Crustal Deformation near Specific Faults
204(13)
Nankai Subduction Zone, Japan
204(6)
Eastern Aleutian Subduction Zone, Southcentral Alaska
210(4)
San Andreas Transform Fault System, California
214(3)
Epilogue
217(16)
Acknowledgments
218(1)
Appendix
218(4)
References
222(11)
Index 233

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

Rewards Program