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- Presents a new concept of General Systems Theory and its application to atmospheric physics
- Includes a universal quantification for the signature of self-organized criticality, namely an inverse power law form for fractal fluctuations in terms of the golden ratio
- Offers a universal inverse power law form for fractal fluctuations that rules out linear secular trends in climate parameters
- Shows that energy input into the atmospheric eddy continuum, whether natural or man-made, results in the enhancement of fluctuations of all scales, manifested in the intensification of high-frequency fluctuations such as the quasi-biennial oscillation and the El-Nino–Southern Oscillation Cycle
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Atmospheric Sciences (SPRINGERATMO)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book presents a new concept of General Systems Theory and its application to atmospheric physics. It reveals that energy input into the atmospheric eddy continuum, whether natural or manmade, results in enhancement of fluctuations of all scales, manifested immediately in the intensification of high-frequency fluctuations such as the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation and the El-Nino–Southern Oscillation cycles. Atmospheric flows exhibit self-organised criticality, i.e. long-range correlations in space and time manifested as fractal geometry to the spatial pattern concomitant with an inverse power law form for fluctuations of meteorological parameters such as temperature, pressure etc. Traditional meteorological theory cannot satisfactorily explain the observed self-similar space time structure of atmospheric flows. A recently developed general systems theory for fractal space-time fluctuations shows that the larger-scale fluctuation can be visualised to emerge from the space-time averaging of enclosed small-scale fluctuations, thereby generating a hierarchy of self-similar fluctuations manifested as the observed eddy continuum in power spectral analyses of fractal fluctuations. The interconnected network of eddy circulations responds as a unified whole to local perturbations such as global-scale response to El-Nino events.
The general systems theory model predicts an inverse power law form incorporating the golden mean Ï„ for the distribution of space-time fluctuation patterns and for the power (variance) spectra of the fluctuations. Since the probability distributions of amplitude and variance are the same, atmospheric flows exhibit quantumlike chaos. Long-range correlations inherent to power law distributions of fluctuations are identified as nonlocal connection or entanglement exhibited by quantum systems such as electrons or photons. The predicted distribution is close to the Gaussian distribution for small-scale fluctuations, but exhibits a fat long tail for large-scale fluctuations. Universal inverse power law for fractal fluctuations rules out unambiguously linear secular trends in climate parameters.
Authors and Affiliations
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Ministry of Earth Sci., Govt. of India, Retd.from IITM Ministry of Earth Sci., Govt. of India, Pune, India
Amujuri Mary Selvam
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Self-organized Criticality and Predictability in Atmospheric Flows
Book Subtitle: The Quantum World of Clouds and Rain
Authors: Amujuri Mary Selvam
Series Title: Springer Atmospheric Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54546-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-54545-5Published: 12 May 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85419-9Published: 09 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-54546-2Published: 05 May 2017
Series ISSN: 2194-5217
Series E-ISSN: 2194-5225
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 139
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations
Topics: Atmospheric Sciences, Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory, Climatology