Statistics and physical oceanography / Panel on Statistics and Oceanography, Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics, Board on Mathematical Sciences, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council.

Support provided by the Office of Naval Research.

Panel co-chairs : Dudley B. Chelton and William F. Eddy.

Includes bibliographical references.

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STATISTICS AND PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY -- Copyright -- PREFACE -- Contents -- 1 OVERVIEW -- INTRODUCTION -- Purpose and Scope of This Report -- Oceanography�A Brief Sketch -- OCEANOGRAPHIC MODELING, DATA, AND NOISE -- The Many Meanings of the Term “Model� -- Diverse Definitions of the Term “Data� -- Low Noise Is Good Noise -- 2 STATISTICAL ISSUES IN THE MULTIPLE-SCALE VARIABILITY OF OCEANOGRAPHIC FIELDS -- OCEANOGRAPHIC VARIABILITY -- SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS -- ISSUES FOR STATISTICAL RESEARCH -- 3 LAGRANGIAN AND EULERIAN DATA AND MODELS

PROSPECTIVE DIRECTIONS FOR RESEARCH4 FEATURE IDENTIFICATION -- TRACKING OF FRONTS AND RINGS -- SEA ICE TRACKING -- ESTIMATION OF HORIZONTAL VELOCITIES FROM IMAGE SEQUENCES -- PROSPECTIVE DIRECTIONS FOR RESEARCH -- 5 VISUALIZATION -- USES OF VISUALIZATION -- CHALLENGES FOR VISUALIZATION -- OUTSTANDING STATISTICAL ISSUES -- 6 INTERPOLATION, NONLINEAR SMOOTHING, FILTERING, AND PREDICTION -- INTERPOLATION OF SATELLITE DATA SETS -- Characteristics of Satellite Data -- Mapping Satellite Data: Motivation and Methods

Data assimilation: use of dynamical models for smoothing and filteringinverse methods -- prospective directions for research -- 7 model and data comparisons -- 8 non-gaussian random fields -- statistical research opportunities -- 9 encouraging collaboration between statisticians and oceanographers -- conclusions -- observations and suggestions -- bibliography

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