Nonlinear Dynamics in Geosciences

Nonlinear Dynamics in Geosciences is comprised of the proceedings of "20 Years of Nonlinear Dynamics in Geosciences", held June 11-16, 2006 in Rhodes, Greece as part of the Aegean Conferences. The volume brings together the most up-to-date research from the atmospheric sciences, hydrology,...

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Other Authors: Tsonis, Anastasios A. (Editor), Elsner, James B. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 2007, 2007
Edition:1st ed. 2007
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introducing Networks in Climate Studies
  • Two Paradigms in Landscape Dynamics: Self-Similar Processes and Emergence
  • Effects of Systematic and Random Errors on the Spatial Scaling Properties in Radar-Estimated Rainfall
  • Nonlinear Dynamics in the Earth’s Magnetosphere
  • Microseism Activity and Equilibrium Fluctuations
  • An Exponential Langevin-type Model for Rainfall Exhibiting Spatial and Temporal Scaling
  • Storm Tracking and Ensemble Prediction
  • Towards a Nonlinear Geophysical Theory of Floods in River Networks: An Overview of 20 Years of Progress
  • Investigations of Wave-induced Nonlinear Response of Minor Species with the KBM Averaging Method
  • ENSO Signal Propagation Detected by Wavelet Coherence and Mean Phase Coherence Methods
  • 25 Years of Nonlinearity in Oceanography from the Lagrangian Perspective
  • Self-Scaling of the Statistical Properties of a Minimal Model of the Atmospheric Circulation
  • Snow Avalanches as a Non-critical, Punctuated Equilibrium System
  • Evidence from Wavelet Lag Coherence for Negligible Solar Forcing of Climate at Multi-year and Decadal Periods
  • From Diversity to Volatility: Probability of Daily Precipitation Extremes
  • Stochastic Linear Models of Nonlinear Geosystems
  • Reducing Forecast Uncertainty to Understand Atmospheric Flow Transitions
  • The Role of El Niño—Southern Oscillation in Regulating its Background State
  • Nonlinear Dynamics of Natural Hazards
  • Predicting the Multifractal Geomagnetic Field
  • Hindcast AGCM Experiments on the Predictability of Stratospheric Sudden Warming
  • Self Organized Criticality and/or Low Dimensional Chaos in Earthquake Processes: Theory and Practice in Hellenic Region
  • Analysis of Nonlinear Biophysical Time Series in Aquatic Environments: Scaling Properties and Empirical Mode Decomposition
  • The Arctic Ocean as a Coupled Oscillating System to the Forced 18.6 Year Lunar Gravity Cycle
  • Dynamical synchronization of truth and model as an approach to data assimilation, parameter estimation, and model learning
  • Scale, Scaling and Multifractals in Geophysics: Twenty Years on
  • Statistics of Return Intervals and Extreme Events in Long-term Correlated Time Series
  • Statistical Properties of Mid-latitude Atmospheric Variability
  • On the Spatiotemporal Variability of the Temperature Anomaly Field
  • Time Evolution of the Fractal Dimension ofElectric Self-Potential Time Series
  • Diffusion Entropy Analysis in Seismicity