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Inference from Data and Models
Spring 2005
This course covers the fundamental methods used for exploring the information content of observations related to kinematical and dynamical models.
Readings
- An earlier edition of the book, with physical oceanographic applications, is: Wunsch, Carl. The Ocean Circulation Inverse Problem . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780521480901. But there is no need to have it.
- Menke, William. Geophysical Data Analysis: Discrete Inverse Theory . 2nd ed. New York, NY: Academic Press, 1989. ISBN: 9780124909212.
- Daley, Roger. Atmospheric Data Analysis . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780521382151.
- Priestley, M. B. Spectral Analysis and Time Series . Combined ed. London, UK: Academic Press, 1981. ISBN: 9780125649018.
- Bracewell, R. N. The Fourier Transform and its Applications . 3rd ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1999. ISBN: 9780073039381.
- Percival, D. B., and A. T. Walden. Spectral Analysis for Physical Applications: Multitaper and Conventional Univariate Techniques . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1993, pp. 83. ISBN: 9780521355322.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.