Anastasios A Tsonis's Books

This book concentrates on the meteorological aspects of Aristotle’s work published as Meteorologica books A-D, and on how they compare now with our understanding of meteorology and climate change.

This unique book explores the definition, sources and role of randomness. A joyful discussion with many non-mathematical and mathematical examples leads to the identification of three sources of randomness: randomness due to irreversibility which inhibits us from extracting whatever rules may underlie a process, randomness due to our inability to have infinite power (chaos), and randomness due to many interacting systems. Here, all sources are found to have something in common: infinity. The discussion then moves to the physical system (our universe). Through the quantum mechanical character of small scales, the second law of thermodynamics and chaos, randomness is shown to be an intrinsic property of nature - this is consistent with the three sources of randomness identified above. Finally, an explanation is given as to why rules and randomness cannot exist by themselves, but instead have to coexist. Many examples are presented, ranging from pure mathematical to natural and social processes, that clearly demonstrate how the combination of rules and randomness produces the world we live in.

This work comprises the proceedings of a conference held last year in Rhodes, Greece, to assess developments during the last 20 years in the field of nonlinear dynamics in geosciences. The volume has its own authority as part of the Aegean Conferences cycle, but it also brings together the most up-to-date research from the atmospheric sciences, hydrology, geology, and other areas of geosciences, and discusses the advances made and the future directions of nonlinear dynamics.

This book concentrates on the meteorological aspects of Aristotle’s work published as Meteorologica books A-D, and on how they compare now with our understanding of meteorology and climate change.

Approachable and concise undergraduate textbook introducing the concepts of atmospheric thermodynamics.

Book's by Anastasios A Tsonis

Aristotle’s Meteorologica: Meteorology Then and Now

Aristotle’s Meteorologica: Meteorology Then and Now

Randomnicity

Randomnicity

Nonlinear Dynamics in Geosciences

Nonlinear Dynamics in Geosciences

Aristotle’s Meteorologica: Meteorology Then and Now

Aristotle’s Meteorologica: Meteorology Then and Now

An Introduction to Atmospheric Thermodynamics

An Introduction to Atmospheric Thermodynamics

Nonlinear Dynamics in Geosciences

Nonlinear Dynamics in Geosciences

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