Tsonis / Elsner Nonlinear Dynamics in Geosciences

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-387-34918-3
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 604 Seiten

This work comprises the proceedings of a conference held last year in Rhodes, Greece, to assess developments during the last 20 years in the field of nonlinear dynamics in geosciences. The volume has its own authority as part of the Aegean Conferences cycle, but it also brings together the most up-to-date research from the atmospheric sciences, hydrology, geology, and other areas of geosciences, and discusses the advances made and the future directions of nonlinear dynamics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tsonis, Anastasios A.

Elsner, James B.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;5
2;Contents;8
3;Contributors;12
4;1 Introducing Networks in Climate Studies;19
5;2 Two Paradigms in Landscape Dynamics: Self- Similar Processes and Emergence ;34
6;3 Effects of Systematic and Random Errors on the Spatial Scaling Properties in Radar- Estimated Rainfall ;53
7;4 Nonlinear Dynamics in the Earth’s Magnetosphere;68
8;5 Microseism Activity and Equilibrium Fluctuations;83
9;6 An Exponential Langevin- type Model for Rainfall Exhibiting Spatial and Temporal Scaling ;100
10;7 Storm Tracking and Ensemble Prediction ;114
11;8 Towards a Nonlinear Geophysical Theory of Floods in River Networks: An Overview of 20 Years of Progress ;133
12;9 Investigations of Wave- induced Nonlinear Response of Minor Species with the KBM Averaging Method ;164
13;10 ENSO Signal Propagation Detected by Wavelet Coherence and Mean Phase Coherence Methods ;178
14;11 25 Years of Nonlinearity in Oceanography from the Lagrangian Perspective ;187
15;12 Self- Scaling of the Statistical Properties of a Minimal Model of the Atmospheric Circulation;207
16;13 Hindcast AGCM Experiments on the Predictability of Stratospheric Sudden Warming ;230
17;14 Self Organized Criticality and/or Low Dimensional Chaos in Earthquake Processes: Theory and Practice in Hellenic Region ;243
18;15 Analysis of Nonlinear Biophysical Time Series in Aquatic Environments: Scaling Properties and Empirical Mode Decomposition ;268
19;16 The Arctic Ocean as a Coupled Oscillating System to the Forced 18.6 Year Lunar Gravity Cycle ;288
20;17 Dynamical synchronization of truth and model as an approach to data assimilation, parameter estimation, and model learning;298
21;18 Scale, Scaling and Multifractals in Geophysics: Twenty Years on ;318
22;19 Statistics of Return Intervals and Extreme Events in Long- term Correlated Time Series ;345
23;20 Statistical Properties of Mid-latitude Atmospheric Variability;374
24;21 On the Spatiotemporal Variability of the Temperature Anomaly Field;397
25;22 Time Evolution of the Fractal Dimension of Electric Self- Potential Time Series;411
26;23 Diffusion Entropy Analysis in Seismicity ;423
27;24 Snow Avalanches as a Non-critical, Punctuated Equilibrium System ;432
28;25 Evidence from Wavelet Lag Coherence for Negligible Solar Forcing of Climate at Multi- year and Decadal Periods;460
29;26 From Diversity to Volatility: Probability of Daily Precipitation Extremes;468
30;27 Stochastic Linear Models of Nonlinear Geosystems;488
31;28 Reducing Forecast Uncertainty to Understand Atmospheric Flow Transitions;519
32;29 The Role of El Niño—Southern Oscillation in Regulating its Background State;538
33;30 Nonlinear Dynamics of Natural Hazards;557
34;31 Predicting the Multifractal Geomagnetic Field ;581
35;Index;600