Chaos in Hydrology Bridging Determinism and Stochasticity /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Sivakumar, Bellie (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Θέματα: Earth sciences.; Hydrology.; Hydrogeology.; Geotechnical engineering.; System theory.; Civil engineering.; Earth Sciences.; Hydrology/Water Resources.; Civil Engineering.; Complex Systems.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.; Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems.

This authoritative book presents a comprehensive account of the essential roles of nonlinear dynamic and chaos theories in understanding, modeling, and forecasting hydrologic systems. This is done through a systematic presentation of: (1) information on the salient characteristics of hydrologic syst...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• Part A: Hydrologic Systems and Modeling
• Characteristics of hydrologic systems and processes
• Conventional linear stochastic time series methods
• Modern nonlinear time series methods
• Part B: Nonlinear dynamics and chaos
• Fundamentals
• Identification of chaos
• Prediction of chaos
• Part C: Applications of chaos theory in hydrology
• Overview
• Applications to rainfall data
• Applications to river flow data
• Applications to other hydrologic data
• Studies on related problems. Part D: A look ahead
• Current status
• The future
• References
• Index.