MATLAB® Recipes for Earth Sciences

Martin Trauth, born in Landau/Pfalz in 1963, studied geophysics and geology at the University of Karlsruhe. He obtained a doctoral degree at Kiel University in 1995 and then became a permanent staff scientist and lecturer at the University of Potsdam. After his habilitation in 2003, he received the venia legendi for geosciences and the status of privatdozent at this university. Since 1990, he has worked on various aspects of past climate changes in East Africa and South America. His projects aim to understand the role of the tropics in terminating ice ages, the relationship between climate changes and human evolution, and the influence of climate anomalies on mass movements in the Central Andes. All these projects include the application of numerical and statistical methods using MATLAB®, such as time-series analysis and signal processing on paleoclimate time series, lake-balance modeling, stochastic modeling of bioturbation and image processing on laminated sediments. For more than ten years, Martin Trauth has taught various courses on data analysis in earth sciences at the University of Potsdam and other European universities.

1 Data Analysis in Earth Sciences.- 2 Introduction to MATLAB.- 3 Univariate Statistics.- 4 Bivariate Statistics.- 5 Time-Series Analysis.- 6 Signal Processing.- 7 Spatial Data.- 8 Image Processing.- 9 Multivariate Statistics.- 10 Statistics on Directional Data.- General Index.