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...

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1. Verfasser:	Hergarten, Stefan (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2002
Schlagworte:	Engineering Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering Earth Sciences, general Geophysics/Geodesy Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences Geology Earth sciences Geophysics Statistics Applied mathematics Engineering mathematics Geowissenschaften Kritikalität Selbstorganisation
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Zusammenfassung:	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
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (IX, 272 p)
ISBN:	9783662043905
DOI:	10.1007/978-3-662-04390-5