Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 259 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511535482
Content:
Increasingly environmental scientists, palaeoceanographers and geologists are collecting quantitative records of environmental changes (time-series) from sediments, ice cores, cave calcite, corals and trees. This book explains how to analyse these records, using straightforward explanations and diagrams rather than formal mathematical derivations. All the main cyclostratigraphic methods are covered including spectral analysis, cross-spectral analysis, filtering, complex demodulation, wavelet and singular spectrum analysis. Practical problems of time-series analysis, including those of distortions of environmental signals during stratigraphic encoding, are considered in detail. Recent research into various types of tidal and climatic cycles is summarised. The book ends with an extensive reference section, and an appendix listing sources of computer algorithms. This book provides the ideal reference for all those using time-series analysis to study the nature and history of climatic and tidal cycles. It is suitable for senior undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental science, palaeoceanography and geology
Content:
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Constructing time series in cyclostratigraphy -- Spectral estimation -- Additional methods of time-series analysis -- Practical considerations -- Environmental cycles recorded stratigraphically -- Appendix. Published algorithms for time-series analysis -- References -- Index
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521620017
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521019835
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521620017
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511535482
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