Advances in Geophysics
Academic Press
Published on 1. January 1958
455 pages
978-0-08-056832-4 (ISBN)
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Advances in Geophysics
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Advances in Geophysics: v. 4
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03/1958
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- Front Cover
- Advances In Geophysics, Volume 4
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Chapter 1. Atmospheric Chemistry
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Aerosols
- 3. Trace Gases
- 4. Precipitation Chemistry
- 5. Air Pollution and Its Role in the Chemistry of Unpolluted Air
- List of Symbols
- References
- Chapter 2. Theories of the Aurora
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Motions of Charged Particles in Magnetic Fields
- 3. Stormer's Theory of Aurorae
- 4. Electric Currents between the Sun and Earth
- 5. The Chapman-Ferraro Stream and Ring Current
- 6. Other Electric-Field Theories of Aurorae
- 7. Additional Mechanisms for the Production of Aurorae
- 8. Theories of Auroral Excitation
- Acknowledgments
- List of Symbols
- References
- Chapter 3. The Effects of Meteorites upon the Earth (Including Its Inhabitants, Atmosphere. and Satellites)
- 1. The Effects of Typical Meteorite Falls
- 2. Number, Classification, and Weights of Recovered Meteorites
- 3. Meteoritic Abundances and Terrestrial Meteoritic Accretion
- 4. The Hyperbolic Meteorite Velocity Problem . I
- 5. The Hyperbolic Meteorite Velocity Problem . II
- 6.Crater-Producing Meteorite Falls
- Appendix I. Meteoritical Pictographs and the Veneration and Exploitation of Meteorites
- Appendix II. Basic Meteoritic Data and Classificational Criteria Employed in Section 5
- List of Symbols
- References
- Chapter 4. Smoothing and Filtering of Time Series and Space Fields
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Time Smoothing and Filtering
- 3. Equalization, Pre-emphasis, and Inverse Smoothing
- 4. Smoothing and Filtering Functions
- 5. Frequency Response of Smoothing Functions and Other Filters
- 6. Design of Smoothing Functions and Filters with Specified Frequency Response
- 7. High-Pass and Band-Pass Filtering Functions
- 8. Elementary Smoothing and Filtering Functions
- 9. Design of Inverse Smoothing Functions
- 10. Design of Pre-emphasis Filters
- 11. Filtering by Means of Derivatives of Time Series
- 12. Space Smoothing and Filtering
- Acknowledgments
- List of Symbols
- References
- Chapter 5. Earth Tides
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Static Theory of the Tides
- 3. Definition of Love's Numbers
- 4. Study of the Amplitude of Oceanic Tides
- 5. Periodical Deflections of the Vertical with Respect to the Crust
- 6. Measurement of Elastic Tensions and Cubic Dilatations Due to Deformations Produced by the Earth Tides
- 7. Deflections of the Vertical with Respect to the Axis of the Earth
- 8. Variations in the Intensity of Gravity
- 9. The Role of the Geologic Structure of the Crust in the Indirect Effects
- 10. Theory of Elastic Deformations of the Earth
- 11. Effect of Earth Tides on the Speed of Rotation of the Earth
- 12. Program of the International Geophysical Year
- List of Symbols
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
