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Seasonal components in GPS displacement time series

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We present a simple method for identification of seasonal components in GPS displacement time series. The method considers two options for the treatment of long series, considering possible variability in the seasonal phases. The method also proposes a bootstrap scheme to deal approximately with series shorter than one period of the seasonal signal. Tests with synthetic data show that the method gives quite acceptable results, so that results from application to real data, although approximate, should be useful considering the inherent uncertainties in the data.

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The MATLAB programs, diseas.m and syntseas.m, can be downloaded from http://cicese.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/handle/1007/3925. No special hardware or software (besides Matlab) are required. Instructions for the use of these programs are included in the corresponding headers.

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Acknowledgements

L. A-B. was supported by CONAHCYT Investigadoras e Investigadores por México Program, project 2602. We are deeply grateful to the Servicio de Geodesia Satelital, from Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), especially to Enrique Cabral-Cano and Luis Salazar-Tlaczani. We are grateful to two anonymous reviewers and to the editor Ramón Zúñiga.

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  1. Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Baja California. División de Ciencias de la Tierra, Departamento de Sismología, Carretera Ensenada – Tijuana No. 3918, Zona Playitas, 22860, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico

    F. Alejandro Nava & Lenin Ávila-Barrientos

  2. Dirección Adjunta de Desarrollo Científico, CONAHCYT, Av. Insurgentes Sur 1582, Col. Crédito Constructor, Alcaldía Benito Juárez, 03940, Mexico City, Mexico

    Lenin Ávila-Barrientos

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FAN contributed to conceptualization, program code, writing—first draft, and review of subsequent drafts. LÁ-B performed data curation and analysis, writing—contributions to and review of all drafts, and editing. Both authors approved the final manuscript.

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Nava, F.A., Ávila-Barrientos, L. Seasonal components in GPS displacement time series. Acta Geophys. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11600-023-01245-8

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