TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dijkstra,Henk A.
TI  - Nonlinear climate dynamics
SN  - 9781139034135 (ebook)
AV  - QC874.5 .D55 2013
U1  - 551.601/175 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Climatology
KW  - Statistical methods
KW  - Dynamic climatology
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139034135
ER  -