Mathematics and climate
by Kaper, H. G.
Mathematics and Climate is 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. The authors emphasize conceptual models that capture important aspects of Earth's climate system and present the mathematical and statistical techniques that can be applied to their analysis. Topics …
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- Full title :Mathematics and climate / Hans Kaper, Hans Engler.
Summary
Mathematics and Climate is 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. The authors emphasize conceptual models that capture important aspects of Earth's climate system and present the mathematical and statistical techniques that can be applied to their analysis. Topics from climate science include the Earth's energy balance, temperature distribution, ocean circulation patterns such as El Niño-Southern Oscillation, ice caps and glaciation periods, the carbon cycle, and the biological pump. Among the mathematical and statistical techniques presented in the text are dynamical systems and bifurcation theory, Fourier analysis, conservation laws, regression analysis, and extreme value theory. The following features make Mathematics and Climate a valuable teaching resource: issues of current interest in climate science and sustainability are used to introduce the student to the methods of mathematics and statistics; the mathematical sophistication increases as the book progresses; topics can thus be selected according to interest and level of knowledge; each chapter ends with a set of exercises that reinforce or enhance the material presented in the chapter and stimulate critical thinking and communication skills; the book contains an extensive list of references to the literature, a glossary of terms for the nontechnical reader, and a detailed index.--[Source inconnue].
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- Publication Date:2013
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):SIAM, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- Place of Publication:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013
Notes
In SIAM e-books.
Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 27 mai 2015).
The Physical Object
- Description:1 ressource en ligne (xx, 326 pages) : : fichiers PDF
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781611972610, 1611972612
- oclc:on1132017376
- LC Classification:QC981
- Dewey Decimal:551.601/51
Table of Contents
Climate and mathematics -- Earth's energy budget -- Oceans and climate -- Dynamical systems -- Bifurcation theory -- Stommel's box model -- Lorenz equations -- Climate and statistics -- Regression analysis -- Mauna Loa CO2 data -- Fourier transforms -- Zonal energy budget -- Atmosphere and climate -- Hydrodynamics -- Climate models -- El Niño, southern oscillation -- Cryosphere and climate -- Biogeochemistry -- Extreme events -- Data assimilation -- Units and symbols -- Glossary -- MATLAB codes.
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