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Networks in Climate

By: Henk A. Dijkstra,Emilio Hernández-García,Cristina Masoller,Marcelo Barreiro

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Networks in Climate

By: Henk A. Dijkstra,Emilio Hernández-García,Cristina Masoller,Marcelo Barreiro

Overview of applications of network theory to climate science, for researchers and students, and anyone interested in network science.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107111234

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9781107111233

Nonlinear Physical Oceanography

A Dynamical Systems Approach to the Large Scale Ocean Circulation and El Niño,

By: Henk A. Dijkstra

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Nonlinear Physical Oceanography

A Dynamical Systems Approach to the Large Scale Ocean Circulation and El Niño,

By: Henk A. Dijkstra

Taken from a review of the first edition in SIAM: "This text is different from most others in that it combines several different disciplines and draws on many scientific studies in order to deduce mechanisms of ocean circulation. (...) Therefore (it) cannot be substituted, and (...) it meets its unique goals with clarity and thoroughness".

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1402022638

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9781402022630

Nonlinear Climate Dynamics

By: Henk A. Dijkstra

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Nonlinear Climate Dynamics

By: Henk A. Dijkstra

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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1107244374

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9781107244375

Dynamical Oceanography

By: Henk A. Dijkstra

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Dynamical Oceanography

By: Henk A. Dijkstra

This textbook provides a mathematical introduction to the theory of large-scale ocean circulation. It is accessible for readers with an elementary knowledge of mathematics and physics, including continuum mechanics and solution methods for ordinary differential equations. At the end of each chapter several exercises are formulated. Many of these are aimed to further develop methodological skills and to get familiar with the physical concepts. New material is introduced in only a few of these exercises. Fully worked out answers to all exercises can be downloaded from the book’s web site.

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3540763759

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9783540763758

Bifurcation Analysis of Fluid Flows

By: Henk A. Dijkstra,Fred W. Wubs

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Bifurcation Analysis of Fluid Flows

By: Henk A. Dijkstra,Fred W. Wubs

A better understanding of the mechanisms leading a fluid system to exhibit turbulent behavior is one of the grand challenges of the physical and mathematical sciences. Over the last few decades, numerical bifurcation methods have been extended and applied to a number of flow problems to identify critical conditions for fluid instabilities to occur. This book provides a state-of-the-art account of these numerical methods, with much attention to modern linear systems solvers and generalized eigenvalue solvers. These methods also have a broad applicability in industrial, environmental and astrophysical flows. The book is a must-have reference for anyone working in scientific fields where fluid flow instabilities play a role. Exercises at the end of each chapter and Python code for the bifurcation analysis of canonical fluid flow problems provide practice material to get to grips with the methods and concepts presented in the book.

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343

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1108852521

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9781108852524

Nonlinear Climate Dynamics

By: Henk A. Dijkstra

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Nonlinear Climate Dynamics

By: Henk A. Dijkstra

This book presents stochastic dynamical systems theory in order to synthesize our current knowledge of climate variability, for graduate students and researchers.

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0521879175

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Ocean Circulation and Climate

Chapter 11. Conceptual Models of the Wind-Driven and Thermohaline Circulation

By: Sybren S. Drijfhout,David P. Marshall,Henk A. Dijkstra

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Ocean Circulation and Climate

Chapter 11. Conceptual Models of the Wind-Driven and Thermohaline Circulation

By: Sybren S. Drijfhout,David P. Marshall,Henk A. Dijkstra

Conceptual models are a vital tool for understanding the processes that maintain the global ocean circulation, both in nature and in complex numerical ocean models. In this chapter we provide a broad overview of our conceptual understanding of the wind-driven circulation, the thermohaline circulation, and their transient behavior. While our conceptual understanding of the time-mean wind-driven circulation is now fairly mature, basic questions remain regarding the thermohaline circulation, for example, surrounding its overall strength and stability. Similarly, basic questions remain regarding the transient adjustment and internal variability of the ocean circulation.

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