In this report we introduce the development of the WDC for Geophysics, Beijing included our activities in the electronic Geophysical Year (eGY) and in the transition period from WDC to WDS. We also present our future plans. We have engaged in the development of geophysical informatics and related data science. We began the data visualization of geomagnetic fields in the GIS system. Our database...

Geophysical Prospection has yielded remarkable results to the research in Archaeology. Besides the recognition of places, also the earlier uses of a site can be reconstructed. Therefore, the geophysical techniques help to understand the layout of a site and raise new research questions. In this paper, we summarize the main geophysical prospection methods for archaeology: magnetic, radar and res...

When conducting an investigation of the subsurface a geoscientist will often locate specific borehole geophysical data for the area of study. This process of locating spatially where the geophysical logs have been conducted and what specific parameters have been run in each logging suite can often be difficult and take the investigator several hours or even days depending upon the size of the s...

Lunar Science: The Moon provides a unique opportunity to study fundamental questions about the origin and evolution of the inner solar system. While it is widely believed that the Moon was created by the collision of a large object with the Earth during early planetary formation, this has not been conclusively proven. Furthermore, the mechanisms and processes by which this may have occurred are...

Geophysical phenomena of interest to geoscientists include both atmospheric and terrestrial related processes, which can be either static or dynamic. Characterization of such phenomena requires advanced models which often include scale invariance concepts of fractal or multi-fractal type. Recently, there has been much interdisciplinary interest in the application of geophysical processes. The a...

The SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) imagery are widely used in order to monitor displacements impacting the Earth surface and infrastructures. The main remote sensing technique to extract sub-centimeter information from SAR imagery is the Differential SAR Interferometry (DInSAR), based on the phase information only. However, it is well known that DInSAR technique may suffer for lack of coherence...

This paper documents an approach to sea ice classification through a combination of methods, both algorithmic and heuristic. The resulting system is a comprehensive technique, which uses dynamic local thresholding as a classification basis and then supplements that initial classification using heuristic geophysical knowledge organized in expert systems. The dynamic local thresholding method all...

The World Data Center for Geophysics in Boulder, Colorado is hosted by the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC). NGDC’s vision is to be the world's leading provider of geophysical and environmental data, information, and products. NGDC's mission is to provide long-term scientific data stewardship for geophysical data, ensuring quality, integrity, and accessibility. Faced with ever expanding ...

Over the last two decades, several advances have been made in the development and application of slim-hole geophysical sondes for use in groundwater, engineering, and environmental applications. This equipment is commonly used to provide qualitative (but detailed) estimates of grain size, sediment type, porosity, density, pore-water salinity, as well as bulk and shear moduli, to supplement geol...

My research efforts to date have combined both theoretical and observational aspects of geophysical fluid dynamics. Specific topics that I have investigated include: large-scale ocean dynamics and thermodynamics; geophysical waves and flow stability (spectral, formal, and nonlinear); Hamiltonian geophysical fluid dynamics; nonintegrable Hamiltonian dynamics; passive tracer transport and mixing ...