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Extreme Environmental Events: Complexity in Forecasting and Early Warning
By Robert A. Meyers (editor)
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Publisher Springer Verlag
Publication date May 10, 2011
Binding Hardcover
Edition 1 har/psc
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781441976963
ISBN-10 1441976965
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Original list price $1019.00
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Extreme Environmental Events is an authoritative single source for understanding and applying the basic tenets of complexity and systems theory, as well as the tools and measures for analyzing complex systems, to the prediction, monitoring, and evaluation of major natural phenomena affecting life on earth. These phenomena are often highly destructive, and include earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, climate change,, and weather. Early warning, damage, and the immediate response of human populations to these phenomena are also covered from the point of view of complexity and nonlinear systems. In 61 authoritative, state-of-the art articles, world experts in each field apply such tools and concepts as fractals, cellular automata, solitons game theory, network theory, and statistical physics to an understanding of these complex geophysical phenomena.



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1 har/psc edition from Springer Verlag (May 10, 2011)
9781441976963 | details & prices | List price $1019.00
About: Extreme Environmental Events is an authoritative single source for understanding and applying the basic tenets of complexity and systems theory, as well as the tools and measures for analyzing complex systems, to the prediction, monitoring, and evaluation of major natural phenomena affecting life on earth.
With William H. K. Lee (other contributor), Hartmut Grassl (other contributor) | from Springer Verlag (November 3, 2010)
9781441976949 | details & prices | 1250 pages | 7.50 × 10.25 × 3.00 in. | 6.50 lbs | List price $679.00

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