Irreversible Phenomena and Dynamical Systems Analysis in Geosciences

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 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.