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Self-Organized Criticality in Earth Systems

By Dr. Stefan Hergarten (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2002
ISBN
978-3-642-07790-6, 978-3-662-04390-5
DOI
10.1007/978-3-662-04390-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6451940 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
272\282
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of EngineerChemistry and Earth Sciences; GeologyComputer Sciencegeneral; Geophysics/Geodesy; Statistics for EnginePhysics

Description

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.

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