Nonlinear Dynamics in Geosciences (eBook)

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