Аннотация:This paper reviews the methods of treating the results of geophysical observations
typically met in various geophysical studies. The main emphasize is given to the sets
of data on the phenomena undergone the actions of random factors. These data are
normally described by the distributions depending on the nature of the processes.
Among them the magnitude of earthquakes, the diameters of moon craters, the
intensity of solar flares, population of cities, size of aerosol and hydrosol particles,
eddies in turbulent water, the strengths of tornadoes and hurricanes and many
other things. Irrespective of the causes for their randomness these manifestations
of planetary activity are characterized by few distribution functions like Gauss
distribution, lognormal distribution, gamma distribution, and algebraic distributions.
Each of these distributions contains empirical parameters the values of which depend
on the concrete nature of the process. Especially interesting are so called “thick”
distributions with the algebraic tails. Possible parametrizations of these distributions
are discussed.