One of the most familiar phenomena on the planet, water waves remain an elusive question for science. The way in which wind blows over water and causes waves is a very active area of research for applied mathematicians, as well as for oceanographers and engineers. The basic mechanisms are still a matter of controversy, although the use of modern techniques of asymptotic and non-linear analysis and large-scale computation, as well as experimental structures, are beginning to reveal the underlying mechanics. These studies are resulting in increasingly powerful methods of forecasting waves and...

This is a collection of papers from the IMA conference on Mathematics in Signal Processing. Signal processing is an important industrial area for the application of mathematical concepts - and has been fuelled by developments in mobile communications, multimedia systems and digital TV. This collection of papers presents coverage of activity on this subject worldwide and should be of interest to those in industry carrying out research into signal processing for communications, sonar, radar, navigation and biomedical applications, and to academic mathematicians identifying mathematical...