Extreme events and natural hazards : the complexity perspective /

• Other Authors: Sharma, A. Surjalal, 1951-
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : American Geophysical Union, 2012.
• Series: Geophysical monograph ; 196.
• Subjects: Geophysical prediction.; Natural disasters.; Computational complexity.; Hazard mitigation.; SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.; SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geology.; Naturkatastrophe; Naturereignis; Electronic books.

"Extreme Events and Natural Hazards: The Complexity Perspective examines recent developments in complexity science that provide a new approach to understanding extreme events. This understanding is critical to the development of strategies for the prediction of natural hazards and mitigation of...

Table of Contents:

• Complexity and Extreme Events in Geosciences: An Overview
• Earthquakes: Complexity and Extreme Events
• Patterns of Seismicity Found in the Generalized Vicinity of a Strong Earthquake: Agreement With Common Scenarios of Instability Development
• Characterizing Large Events and Scaling in Earthquake Models With Inhomogeneous Damage
• Fractal Dimension and b Value Mapping Before and After the 2004 Megathrust Earthquake in the Andaman-Sumatra Subduction Zone
• Stress Pulse Migration by Viscoelastic Process for Long-Distance Delayed Triggering of Shocks in Gujarat, India, After the 2001 Mw 7.7 Bhuj Earthquake
• Extreme Seismic Events in Models of Lithospheric Block-and-Fault Dynamics
• Investigation of Past and Future Polar Low Frequency in the North Atlantic
• Variability of North Atlantic Hurricanes: Seasonal Versus Individual-Event Features
• Large-Scale Patterns in Hurricane-Driven Shoreline Change
• Precipitation and River Flow: Long-Term Memory and Predictability of Extreme Events
• Extreme Events and Trends in the Indian Summer Monsoon
• Empirical Orthogonal Function Spectra of Extreme Temperature Variability Decoded From Tree Rings of the Western Himalayas
• On the Estimation of Natural and Anthropogenic Trends in Climate Records
• Climate Subsystems: Pacemakers of Decadal Climate Variability
• Dynamical System Exploration of the Hurst Phenomenon in Simple Climate Models
• Low-Frequency Weather and the Emergence of the Climate
• Extreme Space Weather: Forecasting Behavior of a Nonlinear Dynamical System
• Supermagnetic Storms: Hazard to Society
• Development of Intermediate-Scale Structure in the Nighttime Equatorial Ionosphere
• Complex Analysis of Polar Auroras for 1996
• On Self-Similar and Multifractal Models for the Scaling of Extreme Bursty Fluctuations in Space Plasmas
• Extreme Value and Record Statistics in Heavy-Tailed Processes With Long-Range Memory
• Extreme Event Recurrence Time Distributions and Long Memory
• Dealing With Complexity and Extreme Events Using a Bottom-Up, Resource-Based Vulnerability Perspective.