Irreversible Phenomena and Dynamical Systems Analysis in Geosciences [Hardcover]

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Crete, Greece, July 14-24, 1985I  Dynamical Systems, Stability and Bifurcation.- Bifurcation and Stochastic Analysis of Nonlinear Systems: An Introduction.- Catastrophe Theory in Geophysics.- II  Geophysical Fluid Dynamics.- Patterns of Heat Transfer by Thermal Convection in a Rotating Fluid Subject to a Horizontal Temperature Gradient: A Summary.- Convection in Spherical Systems.- Dynamo Theory.- Nonpropagating Solitons and Edge Waves.- Universal Power Spectra for Wave Turbulence; Applications to Wind Waves and 1/f Noise.- Fluctuations and Dissipation in Problems of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics.- III  Atmospheric Dynamics.- Deterministic and Stochastic Aspects of Atmospheric Dynamics.- The Blocking Transition.- Dynamics and Statistics of Atmospheric Low Frequency Variability.- Dynamics, Statistics and Predictability of Planetary Flow Regimes.- An Analytic Approach to Atmospheric Waves in Three Dimensions.- IV  Climate Dynamics.- Nonlinear Phenomena in Climate Dynamics.- Climatic Predictability and Dynamical Systems.- Modeling the ?18 O-derived Record of Quaternary Climatic Change with Low Order Dynamical Systems.- Ice Sheet Dynamics and the Pleistocene Ice Ages.- A Relaxation Oscillator Model of the Ice Age Cycle.- Cloud-Ice-Vapor Feedbacks in a Global Climate Model.- Sea Ice-Ocean Interaction.- Some Aspects of Ocean Circulation Models.- Climate Variability: Some Results from a Simple Low-Order GCM.- Nuclear Winter: Recent Climate Model Results, Uncertainties, and Research Needs.- V  Geology.- Modeling Geochemical Self-Organization.- Nonlinear Convection Problems in Geology.- Reaction-Percolation Instability.- On Geomorphic Patterns with a Focus on Stone Circles Viewed as a Free-Convection Phenomenon.- VI  Concluding Remarks.- Low-Order Models and their Uses.