Extreme events and natural hazards : the complexity perspective /
"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...
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Μορφή: | Ηλ. βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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Washington, DC :
American Geophysical Union,
2012.
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Σειρά: | Geophysical monograph ;
196. |
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Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- 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.