Data Analysis Methods in Physical Oceanography. Fourth and Revised Edition

Table of Contents

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
7. Machine Learning Methods
8. Neural networks, convolutional neural networks and deep learning

Authors

Richard E. Thomson Senior Research Scientist and Head of the Ocean Dynamics and Processes Section, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, British Columbia, Canada. Richard E. Thomson is a researcher in coastal and deep-sea physical oceanography within the Ocean Sciences Division. Coastal oceanographic processes on the continental shelf and slope including coastally trapped waves, upwelling and baroclinic instability; hydrothermal venting and the physics of buoyant plumes; linkage between circulation and zooplankton biomass aggregations at hydrothermal venting sites; analysis and modelling of landslide generated tsunamis; paleoclimate using tree ring records and sediment cores from coastal inlets and basins. William J. Emery Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. William (Bill) Emery worked as a professor in Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado from 1987, prior to which he worked in the University of British Columbia where he created a Satellite Oceanography education/research program. He has authored over 220-refereed publications and 4 textbooks in addition to having given 200 conference papers. He is a fellow of: the IEEE (2002), the American Meteorological Society (2010), the American Astronautical Society (2011) and the American Geophysical Union (2012). He was recently elected to the IEEE TAB Hall of Honor (2020). In 2022 he received the GRSS Fawaz Ulaby Distinguised Achievement Award.