Ive been trying to write my intro chapter for my thesis all week, and each time it just sort of morphs into the abstract. Anyway here is the first pass at my abstract for anyone who cares to comment (especially those who have written masters thesis before). Any and all advice on writing a master thesis would be appreciated (note im not done with research hence I dont have the findings yet): Abstract: When the first magnetometer was created by Frederick Gauss in 1833, scientists gained one of the most powerful and useful tools for studying the structure, dynamism, and strength of the Earths magnetic field, the magnetosphere. Since Gauss time, the worlds scientific community has established ground-based magnetometer stations around the globe in an effort to study localized and global measurements and patterns of Earths changing magnetic field. The main focus of this network has been monitoring the magnetic flux and impact from Suns constant outflow of radiation and particles, the solar wind and its more violent eruptive events. There has been little work, however, in the connections between the stations and how their signals correlate with latitude. Since the Earth’s field can roughly be mapped to a dipole, one can surmise there should be some correlation between stations on the same magnetic latitude. However, since the field is not a perfect dipole and is constantly changing what that correlation may be is not clear. To determine the nature of correlation, or if one exists at all, a nonlinear approach is utilized in this paper. Due to extreme periodic signals present in the data, much effort went into the data preparation prior to analysis. The analysis methods for this research include the Hurst R/S, Probability Density Function, and Cross-Correlation. Together, these examine the time and latitudinal correlations, focusing on defining complex or complicated structures within the network. (A sentence about findings would go here).
Posted on: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 01:31:52 +0000
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