Advances in Nonlinear Geosciences (eBook)

Dr. Anastasios Tsonis is Distinguished Professor Emeritus with the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, USA. He is also Adjunct Research Scientist at the Hydrologic Research Center in San Diego, CA, USA.

1.Pullback attractor crisis in a delay differential ENSO model.- 2.Shear-wave splitting indicates non-linear dynamic deformation in the crust and upper mantle.- 3.Stochastic parameterization of subgrid-scale processes: A review of recent physically-based approaches.- 4.Large-scale atmospheric phenomena under the lens of ordinal time-series analysis and information theory measures.- 5.Supermodeling: Synchronization of alternate dynamical models of a single.- 6.Are We Measuring the Right Things for Climate?.- 7.What have complex network approaches learned us about El Niño?.- 8.Late Quaternary climate response at 100 kyr: A noise-induced cycle suppression mechanism.- 9.Role of nonlinear eddy forcing in the dynamics of multiple zonal jets.- 10.Data-adaptive Harmonic Decomposition and Stochastic Modeling of Arctic Sea Ice.- 11.Cautionary remarks on the auto-correlation analysis of self-similar time series.- 12.Emergence of Coherent Clusters in the Ocean.- 13.The Rise and Fall of Thermodynamic Complexity and the Arrow of Time.- 14.From fractals to stochastics­: Seeking theoretical consistency in analysis of geophysical data.- 15.Role of nonlinear dynamics in accelerated warming of Great Lakes.- 16.The Prediction of Nonlinear Polar Motion based on Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) .- 17.Harnessing butterflies: theory and practice of the Stochastic Seasonal to Interannual Prediction System (StocSIPS).- 18.Regime change detection in irregularly sampled time series.- 19.Topological Data Analysis: Developments and Applications.- 20.Nonlinear dynamical approach to atmospheric predictability.- 21.Linked by dynamics: wavelet–based mutual information rate as a connectivity measure and scale-specific networks.- 22.Non-Extensive Statistical Mechanics: Overview of Theory and Applications in Seismogenesis, Climate, and Space Plasma.- 23.Spatial Patterns of Peak Flow Quantiles Based on Power-Law Scaling in the Mississippi River Basin.- 24.Studying the Complexity of Rainfall within California via a Fractal Geometric Method.- 25.Pandora box of multifractals: barely open?.- 26.Complex networks and hydrologic applications.- 27.Convergent Cross Mapping: Theory and an Example.- 28.Randomnicity: randomness as a property of the universe.- 29.Insights in climate dynamics from climate networks.- 30.On the range of frequencies of intrinsic climate oscillations.- 31.The prediction of non-stationary climate series by incorporating external forces.- 32.The impact of nonlinearity on the targeted observations for tropical cyclone prediction