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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2013
      17 June 2013
      ISBN:
      9781139034135
      9780521879170
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139034135
      Dimensions:
      (253 x 177 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.96kg, 367 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Mathematics, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics, Climatology and Climate Change
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    This 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.

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    '… [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 Source: 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 Source: Bulletin of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society

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