Advances in geophysics
Contributors: Mieghem, Jacques van
Series: Advances in Geophysics -- v.4; Advances in geophysics
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 1958
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 467
ISBN-13: 9780080568324
Subjects: Weather; Geophysics; Geology -- Periodicals; Geology; Physics -- Periodicals; Weather -- Periodicals; Physics
Description: ADVANCES IN GEOPHYSICS VOLUME 4.
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 7. Additional Mechanisms for the Production of Aurorae8. 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; title: Appendix I. Meteoritical Pictographs and the Veneration and Exploitation of MeteoritesAppendix 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; title: 7. High-Pass and Band-Pass Filtering Functions8. 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; title: 6. Measurement of Elastic Tensions and Cubic Dilatations Due to Deformations Produced by the Earth Tides7. 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