Front Cover; Advances In Geophysics, Volume 4; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Foreword; Chapter 1. Atmospheric Chemistry; 1. Introduction; 2. Aerosols; 3. Trace Gases; 4. Precipitation Chemistry; 5. Air Pollution and Its Role in the Chemistry of Unpolluted Air; List of Symbols; References; Chapter 2. Theories of the Aurora; 1. Introduction; 2. The Motions of Charged Particles in Magnetic Fields; 3. Stormer's Theory of Aurorae; 4. Electric Currents between the Sun and Earth; 5. The Chapman-Ferraro Stream and Ring Current; 6. Other Electric-Field Theories of Aurorae.
6. Measurement of Elastic Tensions and Cubic Dilatations Due to Deformations Produced by the Earth Tides7. Deflections of the Vertical with Respect to the Axis of the Earth; 8. Variations in the Intensity of Gravity; 9. The Role of the Geologic Structure of the Crust in the Indirect Effects; 10. Theory of Elastic Deformations of the Earth; 11. Effect of Earth Tides on the Speed of Rotation of the Earth; 12. Program of the International Geophysical Year; List of Symbols; References; Author Index; Subject Index.
7. Additional Mechanisms for the Production of Aurorae8. Theories of Auroral Excitation; Acknowledgments; List of Symbols; References; Chapter 3. The Effects of Meteorites upon the Earth (Including Its Inhabitants, Atmosphere. and Satellites); 1. The Effects of Typical Meteorite Falls; 2. Number, Classification, and Weights of Recovered Meteorites; 3. Meteoritic Abundances and Terrestrial Meteoritic Accretion; 4. The Hyperbolic Meteorite Velocity Problem . I; 5. The Hyperbolic Meteorite Velocity Problem . II; 6. Crater-Producing Meteorite Falls.
7. High-Pass and Band-Pass Filtering Functions8. Elementary Smoothing and Filtering Functions; 9. Design of Inverse Smoothing Functions; 10. Design of Pre-emphasis Filters; 11. Filtering by Means of Derivatives of Time Series; 12. Space Smoothing and Filtering; Acknowledgments; List of Symbols; References; Chapter 5. Earth Tides; 1. Introduction; 2. Static Theory of the Tides; 3. Definition of Love's Numbers; 4. Study of the Amplitude of Oceanic Tides; 5. Periodical Deflections of the Vertical with Respect to the Crust.
Appendix I. Meteoritical Pictographs and the Veneration and Exploitation of MeteoritesAppendix II. Basic Meteoritic Data and Classificational Criteria Employed in Section 5; List of Symbols; References; Chapter 4. Smoothing and Filtering of Time Series and Space Fields; 1. Introduction; 2. Time Smoothing and Filtering; 3. Equalization, Pre-emphasis, and Inverse Smoothing; 4. Smoothing and Filtering Functions; 5. Frequency Response of Smoothing Functions and Other Filters; 6. Design of Smoothing Functions and Filters with Specified Frequency Response.