Wow! eBook
Long-Range Persistence in Geophysical Time Series: 40 (Advances in Geophysics): Volume 40
Author(s): Renata Dmowska (Editor), Barry Saltzman
- Publisher: Academic Press
- Publication Date: 1 Jun. 1999
- Language: English
- Print length: 175 pages
- ISBN-10: 0120188406
- ISBN-13: 9780120188406
Book Description
This volume explores in detail one of the main components of noise, that of long-range persistence or memory. The first chapter is a broad summary of theory and techniques of long-range persistence in time series; the second chapter is the application of long-range persistence to a variety of geophysical time series.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“This series has provided workers in many fields with invaluable reference material and criticism.” –SCIENCE PROGRESS
“Should be on the bookshelf of every geophysicist.”
–PHYSICS TODAY“The entire series should be in the library of every group working in geophysics.”
–AMERICAN SCIENTISTAbout the Author
Barry Saltzman, 1932-2001, was professor of geology and geophysics at Yale University and a pioneer in the theory of weather and climate, in which he made several profound and lasting contributions to knowledge of the atmosphere and climate. Saltzman developed a series of models and theories of how ice sheets, atmospheric winds, ocean currents, carbon dioxide concentration, and other factors work together, causing the climate to oscillate in a 100,000-year cycle. For this and other scientific contributions, he received the 1998 Carl Gustaf Rossby Research Medal, the highest award from the American Meteorological Society. Saltzman was a fellow of the American Meteorological Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an honorary member of the Academy of Science of Lisbon. His work in 1962 on thermal convection led to the discovery of chaos theory and the famous “Saltzman-Lorenz attractor.”
