In response to hazards posed by earthquake-induced tsunamis, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration developed a system for issuing timely warnings to coastal communities. This system, in part, involves matching data collected in real time from deep-ocean buoys to a database of...

type="main" xml:id="rssc12079-abs-0001" <title type="main">Summary</title> <p>Characteristic scale is a notion that pervades the geophysical sciences, but it has no widely accepted precise definition. Motivated by the facts that the wavelet transform decomposes a time series into coefficients that are associated with...</p>