Hans Kaper, Hans Engler

Mathematics and Climate

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A timely textbook aimed at students and researchers in mathematics and statistics who are interested in current issues of climate science, as well as at climate scientists who wish to become familiar with qualitative and quantitative methods of mathematics and statistics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
• Seitenzahl: 345
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 256mm x 177mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 574g
• ISBN-13: 9781611972603
• ISBN-10: 1611972604
• Artikelnr.: 40511425

Autorenporträt

Hans Kaper is affiliated with Georgetown University and is Co-Director of the Mathematics and Climate Research Network (www.mathclimate.org). He is a Corresponding Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and was named a SIAM Fellow in 2009. Kaper is Editor-in-Chief of SIAM News, a member of the SIAM Committee on Science Policy, and Chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Dynamical Systems. He is interested in the mathematics of physical systems.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Climate and mathematics
2. Earth's energy budget
3. Oceans and climate
4. Dynamical systems
5. Bifurcation theory
6. Stommel's box model
7. Lorenz equations
8. Climate and statistics
9. Regression analysis
10. Mauna Loa CO2 data
11. Fourier transforms
12. Zonal energy budget
13. Atmosphere and climate
14. Hydrodynamics
15. Climate models
16. El Niño-southern oscillation
17. Cryosphere and climate
18. Biogeochemistry
19. Extreme events
20. Data assimilation
Appendix A. Units and symbols
Appendix B. Glossary
Appendix C. MATLAB codes.