Advances in Geophysics (eBook)

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1958 | 1. Auflage
455 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-056832-4 (ISBN)

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ADVANCES IN GEOPHYSICS VOLUME 4

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Advances In Geophysics, Volume 4 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 10
List of Contributors 6
Foreword 8
Chapter 1. Atmospheric Chemistry 12
1. Introduction 12
2. Aerosols 14
3. Trace Gases 55
4. Precipitation Chemistry 82
5. Air Pollution and Its Role in the Chemistry of Unpolluted Air 105
List of Symbols 112
References 112
Chapter 2. Theories of the Aurora 120
1. Introduction 121
2. The Motions of Charged Particles in Magnetic Fields 127
3. Stormer’s Theory of Aurorae 138
4. Electric Currents between the Sun and Earth 157
5. The Chapman-Ferraro Stream and Ring Current 169
6. Other Electric-Field Theories of Aurorae 184
7. Additional Mechanisms for the Production of Aurorae 194
8. Theories of Auroral Excitation 202
Acknowledgments 217
List of Symbols 218
References 221
Chapter 3. The Effects of Meteorites upon the Earth (Including Its Inhabitants, Atmosphere. and Satellites) 228
1. The Effects of Typical Meteorite Falls 229
2. Number, Classification, and Weights of Recovered Meteorites 246
3. Meteoritic Abundances and Terrestrial Meteoritic Accretion 251
4. The Hyperbolic Meteorite Velocity Problem . I 284
5. The Hyperbolic Meteorite Velocity Problem . II 303
6.Crater-Producing Meteorite Falls 318
Appendix I. Meteoritical Pictographs and the Veneration and Exploitation of Meteorites 340
Appendix II. Basic Meteoritic Data and Classificational Criteria Employed in Section 5 347
List of Symbols 350
References 352
Chapter 4. Smoothing and Filtering of Time Series and Space Fields 362
1. Introduction 362
2. Time Smoothing and Filtering 363
3. Equalization, Pre-emphasis, and Inverse Smoothing 364
4. Smoothing and Filtering Functions 365
5. Frequency Response of Smoothing Functions and Other Filters 366
6. Design of Smoothing Functions and Filters with Specified Frequency Response 374
7. High-Pass and Band-Pass Filtering Functions 376
8. Elementary Smoothing and Filtering Functions 380
9. Design of Inverse Smoothing Functions 383
10. Design of Pre-emphasis Filters 387
11. Filtering by Means of Derivatives of Time Series 389
12. Space Smoothing and Filtering 391
Acknowledgments 397
List of Symbols 398
References 399
Chapter 5. Earth Tides 402
1. Introduction 403
2. Static Theory of the Tides 405
3. Definition of Love’s Numbers 411
4. Study of the Amplitude of Oceanic Tides 412
5. Periodical Deflections of the Vertical with Respect to the Crust 414
6. Measurement of Elastic Tensions and Cubic Dilatations Due to Deformations Produced by the Earth Tides 429
7. Deflections of the Vertical with Respect to the Axis of the Earth 434
8. Variations in the Intensity of Gravity 437
9. The Role of the Geologic Structure of the Crust in the Indirect Effects 443
10. Theory of Elastic Deformations of the Earth 446
11. Effect of Earth Tides on the Speed of Rotation of the Earth 450
12. Program of the International Geophysical Year 451
List of Symbols 452
References 452
Author Index 456
Subject Index 463

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.1958
• Mitarbeit: Herausgeber (Serie): Helmut E. Landsberg, J. van Mieghem
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geophysik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• ISBN-10: 0-08-056832-7 / 0080568327
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-056832-4 / 9780080568324