Time series methods are essential tools in the analysis of many geophysical systems. This volume, which consists of papers presented by a select, international group of statistical and geophysical experts at a Workshop on Time Series Analysis and Applications to Geophysical Systems at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) at the University of Minnesota from November 12-15, 2001 as part of the IMA's Thematic Year on Mathematics in the Geosciences, explores the application of recent advances in time series methodology to a host of important problems ranging from climate change to seismology.

Interpretation of Seismic Signals.- Nonparametric deconvolution of seismic depth phases.- State space approach to signal extraction problems in seismology.- Improved signal transmission through randomization.- Online analysis of seismic signals.- Temperature Data.- Nonstationary time series analysis of monthly global temperature anomalies.- A test for detecting changes in mean.- Spatio-temporal modelling of temperature time series: a comparative study.- Modeling North Pacific climate time series.- Assortment of Important Time Series Problems and Applications.- Skew-elliptical time series with application to flooding risk.- Hidden periodicities analysis and its application in geophysics.- The innovation approach to the identification of nonlinear causal models in time series analysis.- Non-Gaussian time series models.- Modeling continuous time series driven by fractional Gaussian noise.- List of workshop participants.