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Contributors vii Oscillatory Spatiotemporal Signal Detection in Climate Studies: A Multiple-Taper Spectral Domain Approach Michael E. Mann Jeffrey Park Introduction 1(5) Motivation and Overview 1(2) Signal and Noise in Climate Data: Dynamical Mechanisms 3(3) Traditional Methods of Oscillatory Climate Signal Detection 6(24) Signal and Noise Assumptions: A Synthetic Data Set 7(10) Conventional Approaches to Signal Detection 17(13) MTM-SVD Multivariate Frequency-Domain Climate Signal Detection and Reconstruction 30(11) Signal Detection 31(3) Signal Reconstruction 34(2) Testing the Null Hypothesis: Significance Estimation 36(5) Application to Synthetic Data Set 41(80) Effects of Sampling Inhomogeneties 45(4) Applications of MTM-SVD Approach to Observational and Model Climate Data 49(2) Global Temperature Data 51(21) Northern Hemisphere Joint Surface Temperature and Sea-Level Pressure Data 72(29) Long-Term Multiproxy Temperature Data 101(10) Seasonal Cycle: Observations vs CO2-Forced Model Simulations 111(10) Conclusion 121(12) Acknowledgments 122(1) References 123(10) Numerical Models of Crustal Deformation in Seismic Zones Steven C. Cohen Introduction 133(6) Elastic Half-Space Model of the Earthquake Cycle for an Infinitely Long Strike-Slip Fault: An Illustrative Model 137(2) Coseismic Deformation 139(23) Elastic Dislocation Theory 139(6) Early Applications of Dislocation Theory 145(7) Extensions beyond the Uniform Elastic Half-Space Model 152(6) The Finite-Element Method 158(4) Time-Dependent Effects 162(42) Deep Fault Creep 162(1) Viscoelastic Flow 163(15) Kinematic Models of the Entire Earthquake Cycle 178(11) Other Issues 189(15) Crustal Deformation near Specific Faults 204(13) Nankai Subduction Zone, Japan 204(6) Eastern Aleutian Subduction Zone, Southcentral Alaska 210(4) San Andreas Transform Fault System, California 214(3) Epilogue 217(16) Acknowledgments 218(1) Appendix 218(4) References 222(11) Index 233
Renata Dmowska works in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, USA. Barry Saltzman, 1932-2001, was professor of geology and geophysics at Yale University and a pioneer in the theory of weather and climate, in which he made several profound and lasting contributions to knowledge of the atmosphere and climate. Saltzman developed a series of models and theories of how ice sheets, atmospheric winds, ocean currents, carbon dioxide concentration, and other factors work together, causing the climate to oscillate in a 100,000-year cycle. For this and other scientific contributions, he received the 1998 Carl Gustaf Rossby Research Medal, the highest award from the American Meteorological Society. Saltzman was a fellow of the American Meteorological Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an honorary member of the Academy of Science of Lisbon. His work in 1962 on thermal convection led to the discovery of chaos theory and the famous "Saltzman-Lorenz attractor."
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