Self-Organized Criticality in Earth Systems

✍ Scribed by Dr. Stefan Hergarten (auth.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Leaves: 282
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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 years since Per Bak and his co-workers presented their seminal idea, more than 2000 papers on this topic have been published. Seismology has been a rich field in earth sciences where the SOC concept has already deepened understanding, but there seem to be many more examples in earth sciences where applying the SOC concept may be fruitful. After introducing the reader to the basics of fractals, chaos and SOC the book presents established and new applications of SOC in the earth sciences: earthquakes, forest fires, landslides and drainage networks.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Fractals and Fractal Distributions....Pages 1-24
Recognizing Power-Law Distributions....Pages 25-40
Self-Affine Time Series....Pages 41-66
Deterministic Chaos....Pages 67-86
Self-Organized Criticality....Pages 87-108
The Forest-Fire Model — Tuning and Universality....Pages 109-124
Earthquakes and Stick-Slip Motion....Pages 125-162
Landslides....Pages 163-188
Drainage Networks....Pages 189-234
SOC and Nothing Else?....Pages 235-252
Where do we Stand?....Pages 253-254
Back Matter....Pages 255-273

✦ Subjects

Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering; Earth Sciences, general; Geophysics/Geodesy; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences; Geology

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