عنوان

Irreversible Phenomena and Dynamical Systems Analysis in Geosciences

(Number (ISBN

940094778X

(Number (ISBN

9789400947788

Number

b593402

Title Proper

Irreversible Phenomena and Dynamical Systems Analysis in Geosciences

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by C. Nicolis, G. Nicolis.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Dordrecht

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Springer Netherlands

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1986

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(604 pages)

Series Title

NATO ASI series., Series C,, Mathematical and physical sciences ;, 192.

Text of Note

I - Dynamical Systems, Stability and Bifurcation.- Bifurcation and Stochastic Analysis of Nonlinear Systems: An Introduction.- Catastrophe Theory in Geophysics.- II - Geophysical Fluid Dynamics.- Patterns of Heat Transfer by Thermal Convection in a Rotating Fluid Subject to a Horizontal Temperature Gradient: A Summary.- Convection in Spherical Systems.- Dynamo Theory.- Nonpropagating Solitons and Edge Waves.- Universal Power Spectra for Wave Turbulence; Applications to Wind Waves and 1/f Noise.- Fluctuations and Dissipation in Problems of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics.- III - Atmospheric Dynamics.- Deterministic and Stochastic Aspects of Atmospheric Dynamics.- The Blocking Transition.- Dynamics and Statistics of Atmospheric Low Frequency Variability.- Dynamics, Statistics and Predictability of Planetary Flow Regimes.- An Analytic Approach to Atmospheric Waves in Three Dimensions.- IV - Climate Dynamics.- Nonlinear Phenomena in Climate Dynamics.- Climatic Predictability and Dynamical Systems.- Modeling the ?18 O-derived Record of Quaternary Climatic Change with Low Order Dynamical Systems.- Ice Sheet Dynamics and the Pleistocene Ice Ages.- A Relaxation Oscillator Model of the Ice Age Cycle.- Cloud-Ice-Vapor Feedbacks in a Global Climate Model.- Sea Ice-Ocean Interaction.- Some Aspects of Ocean Circulation Models.- Climate Variability: Some Results from a Simple Low-Order GCM.- Nuclear Winter: Recent Climate Model Results, Uncertainties, and Research Needs.- V - Geology.- Modeling Geochemical Self-Organization.- Nonlinear Convection Problems in Geology.- Reaction-Percolation Instability.- On Geomorphic Patterns with a Focus on Stone Circles Viewed as a Free-Convection Phenomenon.- VI - Concluding Remarks.- Low-Order Models and their Uses.

Parallel Title

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Crete, Greece, July 14-24, 1985

Geography.

Meteorology.

edited by C. Nicolis, G. Nicolis.

C Nicolis

G Nicolis

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[Book]

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