The Fascination of Sand

Ole Barndorff-Nielsen, Preben Blæsild, Jens Ledet Jensen and Michael Sørensen

Chapter Chapter 4 in A Celebration of Statistics, 1985, pp 57-87 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The physics of wind-blown sand poses a variety of intriguing problems whose proper solution seems to require statistical ideas and methods, partly new. The main traits of the processes of transport and sorting of sand particles by wind or by water are described, and a review is given of results obtained and of subjects for further study. Various aspects of general statistical interest are also discussed; in particular, properties and applications of hyperbolic and certain related distributions are outlined. Other, nontechnical ramifications are considered, and this part of the discussion includes a brief biography of R. A. Bagnold, the founder of the physics of blown sands as a scientific field.

Keywords: earth magnetization; effective sample size; hyperbolic distributions; Long Range Deset Group; modified profile likelihood; particle sizes; physics of blown sand; sand sorting; shape triangle; stochastic models for sand transport (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1985
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-8560-8_4

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