Irreversible Phenomena and Dynamical Systems Analysis in Geosciences

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Bifurcation and Stochastic Analysis of Nonlinear Systems: An Introduction....Pages 3-29
Catastrophe Theory in Geophysics....Pages 31-40
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
Patterns of Heat Transfer by Thermal Convection in a Rotating Fluid Subject to a Horizontal Temperature Gradient: A Summary....Pages 43-51
Convection in Spherical Systems....Pages 53-71
Dynamo Theory....Pages 73-133
Nonpropagating Solitons and Edge Waves....Pages 135-138
Universal Power Spectra for Wave Turbulence; Applications to Wind Waves and 1/f Noise....Pages 139-144
Fluctuations and Dissipation in Problems of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics....Pages 145-156
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Deterministic and Stochastic Aspects of Atmospheric Dynamics....Pages 159-179
The Blocking Transition....Pages 181-197
Dynamics and Statistics of Atmospheric Low Frequency Variability....Pages 199-239
Dynamics, Statistics and Predictability of Planetary Flow Regimes....Pages 241-283
An Analytic Approach to Atmospheric Waves in Three Dimensions....Pages 285-309
Front Matter....Pages 311-311
Nonlinear Phenomena in Climate Dynamics....Pages 313-320
Climatic Predictability and Dynamical Systems....Pages 321-354
Modeling the δ 18 0-Derived Record of Quaternary Climatic Change with Low Order Dynamical Systems....Pages 355-380
Ice Sheet Dynamics and the Pleistocene Ice Ages....Pages 381-398
A Relaxation Oscillator Model of the Ice Age Cycle....Pages 399-416
Cloud-Ice-Vapor Feedbacks in a Global Climate Model....Pages 417-437
Sea Ice-Ocean Interaction....Pages 439-451
Front Matter....Pages 311-311
Some Aspects of Ocean Circulation Models....Pages 453-466
Climate Variability: Some Results from a Simple Low-Order GCM....Pages 467-473
Nuclear Winter: Recent Climate Model Results, Uncertainties, and Research Needs....Pages 475-489
Front Matter....Pages 491-491
Modeling Geochemical Self Organization....Pages 493-510
Nonlinear Convection Problems in Geology....Pages 511-521
Reaction-Percolation Instability....Pages 523-532
On Geomorphic Patterns with a Focus on Stone Circles Viewed as a Free-Convection Phenomenon....Pages 533-553
Front Matter....Pages 555-555
Low-Order Models and Their Uses....Pages 557-567
Back Matter....Pages 569-578