Advances in geophysics
Series: Advances in Geophysics -- v.2; Advances in geophysics
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 1955
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780080568294
Subjects: Weather; Geophysics; Geology -- Periodicals; Geology; Physics -- Periodicals; Weather -- Periodicals; Physics
Description: ADVANCES IN GEOPHYSICS VOLUME 2.
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: Front Cover; Advances in Geophysics, Volume 2; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Foreword; Chapter 1. Advances in Radar Weather; 1. Introduction; 2. Precipitation Patterns; 3. Theory and Quantitative Observations; Acknowledgments; List of Symbols; References; Chapter 2. Methods of Objective Weather Forecasting; 1. Introduction; 2. Classification of Objective Studies; 3. The Success and Future of Objective Forecasting; 4. Concluding Remarks; Acknowledgments; List of Symbols; References; Chapter 3. Wind Generated Gravity Waves; 1. Introduction; 2. Outline of Theory; title: 3. The Simple Harmonic Progressive Wave4. A Finite Wave Train in Deep Water; 5. A Stationary Gaussian Process in One Dimension; 6. A Stationary Gaussian Process in Three Dimensions; 7. The Ergodic Theorem; 8. A Definition of a Wind Generated Wave and of a Wind Generated Gravity Wave System; 9. Practical Wave Statistics; 10. Wave Generation and Theoretical Energy Spectra; 11. The Angular Variation of the Spectrum; 12. Sea Surface Glitter and Wave Slopes; 13. Wave Record Analysis; 14. Ship Motions; 15. Wave Refraction; 16. The Propagation of Wind Generated Gravity Waves; title: 17. Practical Methods for Observing and Forecasting Ocean Waves18. Unsolved Problems; Acknowledgments; List of Symbols; References; Chapter 4. Geological Chronometry by Radioactive Methods; 1. Introduction; 2. The Lead Methods; 3. The Carbon-14 Method; 4. The Strontium Method; 5. The Potassium Methods; 6. The Helium Method; 7. The Ionium Method; 8. Other Potential Methods; References; Chapter 5. Earthquake Seismographs and Associated Instruments; 1. Torsion Seismographs; 2. Pendulum Seismographs with Viscous-Coupled Optical Recording Elements; title: 3. Moving-Conductor Electromagnetic Pendulum Seismographs4. Variable Reluctance Electromagnetic Pendulum Seismograph; 5. Electrostatic Transducer Pendulum Seismographs; 6. Carrier-Current Transducer Seismographs; 7. Linear Strain Seismograph; 8. Remote Recording Seismographs; 9. Components; 10. Seismograph Response Characteristics; List of Symbols; References; Author Index; Subject Index