Self-Organized Criticality in Earth - E-book

eBook

Self-organized Criticality In Earth Systems - ENG

Stefan Hergarten

eBook

$3,180.00

Disponible

Información adicional
Sinopsis

ISBN:	9783662043905
Formato:	ePub
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Springer Nature
Tema:	Tecnología e ingeniería
Subtema:	Ingeniería (General)
Año de publicación:	2013-03-14

Self-organized criticality (SOC) has become a magic word in various scientific disciplines; it provides a framework for understanding complexity and scale invariance in systems showing irregular fluctuations. In the first 10 years after Per Bak and his co-workers presented their seminal idea, more than 2000 papers on this topic appeared. Seismology has been a field in earth sciences where the SOC concept has already deepened the understanding, but there seem to be much more examples in earth sciences where applying the SOC concept may be fruitful. After introducing the reader into the basics of fractals, chaos and SOC, the book presents established and new applications of SOC in earth sciences, namely earthquakes, forest fires, landslides and drainage networks.

eBooks