The Weather and Climate: Emergent Laws and Multifractal Cascades

ISBN-13: 9781108446013 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 507 str.

Shaun Lovejoy; Daniel Schertzer

Opis

A new method of modeling the atmosphere, synthesizing data analysis techniques and multifractal statistics, for atmospheric researchers and graduate students.

Spis treści

Preface; Acknowledgements; Acronyms and abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Classical turbulence, modern evidence; 3. Scale by scale simplicity: an introduction to multiplicative cascades; 4. Empirical analysis of cascades in the horizontal; 5. Cascades, dimensions and codimensions; 6. Vertical stratification and anisotropic scaling; 7. Generalized scale invariance and cloud morphology; 8. Space-time cascades and the emergent laws of the weather; 9. Causal space-time cascades: the emergent laws of waves, predictability and forecasting; 10. The emergent laws of macroweather and the transition to the climate; 11. The climate; References; Index.