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REDFIT -- Free Software
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REDFIT software estimates red-noise spectra directly from unevenly spaced time series,
without requiring interpolation.
Spectra of paleoclimatic time series commonly show a continuous decrease of spectral amplitude with increasing frequency ("red-noise"). A first-order autoregressive process is often used as null hypothesis to assess whether or not the variability recorded in a time series is consistent with a stochastic origin of this type. Since most paleoclimatic time series are unevenly spaced, and the straightforward estimation of such red-noise background requires evenly spaced time series, some sort of interpolation is necessary. Unfortunately, interpolation results in a significant bias because it alters the estimated spectrum by enhancing the low-frequency components at the expense of high-frequency components. Hence, the estimated spectrum of an interpolated time series becomes too "red" compared to the true spectrum. To overcome this problem a Fortran 90 program for estimating red-noise spectra directly from unevenly spaced data has been developed. The program is in the public domain and an accompanying paper with a program description appears in Computers & Geosciences, v.28, No. 3, April 2002, (an official journal of the International Association for Mathematical Geology). A preprint of the Computers & Geosciences paper can be downloaded from WDC Paleo. Authors Michael Schulz of the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and Manfred Mudelsee of Climate Risk Analysis would appreciate any comments from REDFIT users. Click here to download REDFIT now. The zip-archive includes Fortran 90 source code, binaries for Windows 95 (or above), and program documentation and example files. Please make sure to maintain the directory structure of the zip archive when unpacking this file. Please read the REDFIT Manual before you begin. |
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http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/softlib/redfit/redfit.html Downloaded Thursday, 01-Aug-2013 15:01:54 EDT Last Updated Tuesday, 02-Dec-2008 15:07:03 EST by paleo@noaa.gov Please see the Paleoclimatology Contact Page or the NCDC Contact Page if you have questions or comments. |