Analysis of Internal Boundaries and Transition Regions in Geophysical Systems with Advanced Processing Techniques

• Main Author: Krützmann, Nikolai Christian
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: University of Canterbury. Physics & Astronomy 2013
• Subjects: Atmosphere; cryosphere; Antarctica; snow; compaction; ice; glacier; McMurdo Ice Shelf; GPR; Ground Penetrating Radar; deconvolution; fourier deconvolution; domain filling; tropical pipe; tropical leak; RE; Renyi entropy; chaos theory; complexity; complexity measure; stratosphere; mixing; Austral; Scott Base; Antarc*; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8534; https://doi.org/10.26021/7595

This thesis examines the utility of the Rényi entropy (RE), a measure of the complexity of probability density functions, as a tool for finding physically meaningful patterns in geophysical data. Initially, the RE is applied to observational data of long-lived atmospheric tracers in order to analyse...