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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences (LNEARTH, volume 112)
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The enormous progress over the last decades in our understanding of the mechanisms behind the complex system “Earth” is to a large extent based on the availability of enlarged data sets and sophisticated methods for their analysis. Univariate as well as multivariate time series are a particular class of such data which are of special importance for studying the dynamical p- cesses in complex systems. Time series analysis theory and applications in geo- and astrophysics have always been mutually stimulating, starting with classical (linear) problems like the proper estimation of power spectra, which hasbeenputforwardbyUdnyYule(studyingthefeaturesofsunspotactivity) and, later, by John Tukey. In the second half of the 20th century, more and more evidence has been accumulated that most processes in nature are intrinsically non-linear and thus cannot be su?ciently studied by linear statistical methods. With mat- matical developments in the ?elds of dynamic system’s theory, exempli?ed by Edward Lorenz’s pioneering work, and fractal theory, starting with the early fractal concepts inferred by Harold Edwin Hurst from the analysis of geoph- ical time series,nonlinear methods became available for time seriesanalysis as well. Over the last decades, these methods have attracted an increasing int- est in various branches of the earth sciences. The world’s leading associations of geoscientists, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the European Geosciences Union (EGU) have reacted to these trends with the formation of special nonlinear focus groups and topical sections, which are actively present at the corresponding annual assemblies.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Applications in Climatology and Atmospheric Sciences
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Applications in Oceanography and Seismology
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Applications in Solar-Terrestrial Physics
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nonlinear Time Series Analysis in the Geosciences
Book Subtitle: Applications in Climatology, Geodynamics and Solar-Terrestrial Physics
Editors: Reik V. Donner, Susana M. Barbosa
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78938-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-78937-6Published: 18 August 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09769-0Published: 25 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-78938-3Published: 03 August 2008
Series ISSN: 0930-0317
Series E-ISSN: 1613-2580
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 390
Topics: Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Climatology, Geophysics/Geodesy