The Stochastic Nature of Environmental Phenomena and Processes / by Georgy Golitsyn, Costas Varotsos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Golitsyn, Georgy., Author.

Varotsos, Costas., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Earth sciences.

Stochastic models.

Climatology.

Earth Sciences.

Stochastic Modelling in Statistics.

Climate Sciences.

Local Subjects:

Earth Sciences.

Stochastic Modelling in Statistics.

Climate Sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIII, 285 p. 103 illus., 39 illus. in color.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2025.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2025.

Summary:

This book is useful not only for young but also for mature scientists who are preparing methods for studying natural environmental phenomena and their alteration by human activity. As spatio-temporal scales of natural environmental phenomena become larger, the variance of their fluctuations increases or decreases over wide ranges. Such signals appear not only in environmental dynamics but everywhere, even in seemingly unrelated fields. When one looks at these signals more closely, one finds that they are governed by specific, measurable scaling laws, that is, a statistical relationship between big and small, between fast and slow. In this book, the authors describe and explain processes that have puzzled environmental science for decades, such as the climate crisis, clouds, turbulence, earthquakes, cosmic rays, sea wind waves, hurricanes, floods, radiation field in the climate system, ozone hole, greenhouse effect, air pollution, El Nino / La Nina, nowcasting models.

Contents:

1. Necessary notions from the theory of stochastic processe

2. Turbulence

3. Earthquakes

4. Energy spectrum of cosmic rays

5. Turbulence and rotation

6. Sea wind waves

7. Turbulence eddy mixing in the atmosphere and on the sea surface

8. Statistical structure of the sky bodies surface relief – Kaula’s rule

9. Stochastic motions at the prescribed rotation (hurricanes and other vortices)

10. Size distributions for lakes and rivers. Flood damag

11. Additions and comments to previous sections

12. Similarity and dimension, rules of action

13. Convection

14. Clouds and turbulence, self-similarity, and peculiar invariants

15. The global sea level dynamics

16. The intrinsic properties of precipitation and rainfall

17. The global vertical atmospheric ozone long-memory

18. The air temperature scaling effect

19. The spectral solar radiation variability

20. Scaling of near-ground spectral albedo variability

21. Scaling properties of air pollution

22. Scaling effect in Greenhouse Gasses

23. A New Tool to Study Complex Systems: The Natural Time

24. El Niño Southern Oscillation; A New Prediction Tool

25. Other Applications of Natural Time to Extreme Phenomena

26. The climate linear and non-linear regime

References.

ISBN:

3-031-77015-3