Nonlinear Climate Dynamics
Nonlinear Climate Dynamics
£57.99
GBPThis book introduces stochastic dynamical systems theory in order to synthesize our current knowledge of climate variability. Nonlinear processes, such as advection, radiation and turbulent mixing, play a central role in climate variability. These processes can give rise to transition phenomena, associated with tipping or bifurcation points, once external conditions are changed. The theory of dynamical systems provides a systematic way to study these transition phenomena. Its stochastic extension also forms the basis of modern (nonlinear) data analysis techniques, predictability studies and data assimilation methods. Early chapters apply the stochastic dynamical systems framework to a hierarchy of climate models to synthesize current knowledge of climate variability. Later chapters analyse phenomena such as the North Atlantic Oscillation, El Niño/Southern Oscillation, Atlantic Multidecadal Variability, Dansgaard–Oeschger events, Pleistocene ice ages and climate predictability. This book will prove invaluable for graduate students and researchers in climate dynamics, physical oceanography, meteorology and paleoclimatology.
- A dynamical systems approach to climate variability is presented
- Elementary presentation of the theory of stochastic dynamical systems
- Introduces a hierarchy of models of the climate system
Reviews & endorsements
'… [a] characteristic feature of this book that distinguish[es] it from the numerous other books on climate modelling [is] its focus on the stochastic dynamical system framework for representing the climate system … accessible and potentially interesting to a wide audience.' Lucy J. Campbell, Mathematical Reviews
'… the quality of the graphics, and the presentation is high and I suspect almost anyone who is willing to dedicate some time to these chapters will come away with new knowledge.' J. J. P. Smith, Bulletin of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
Product details
August 2013Hardback
9780521879170
367 pages
260 × 182 × 21 mm
0.96kg
289 b/w illus. 13 colour illus. 11 tables
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Table of Contents
- 1. Climate variability
- 2. Deterministic dynamical systems
- 3. Introduction to stochastic calculus
- 4. Stochastic dynamical systems
- 5. Analysing data from stochastic dynamical systems
- 6. The climate modeling hierarchy
- 7. The North Atlantic Oscillation
- 8. El Niño variability
- 9. Multidecadal variability
- 10. Dansgaard–Oeschger events
- 11. The Pleistocene ice ages
- 12. Predictability.
