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Dynamics of Multiscale Earth Systems

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Editors:
  1. Horst J. Neugebauer

    1. Institut für Geodynamik, Universität Bonn, Bonn

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  2. Clemens Simmer

    1. Meteorologisches Institut der Universität Bonn, Bonn

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences (LNEARTH, volume 97)

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In many aspects science becomes conducted nowadays through technology and preferential criteria of economy. Thus investigation and knowledge is evidently linked to a speci?c purpose. Especially Earth science is confronted with two major human perspectives concerning our natural environment:sustainability of resources and assessment of risks. Both aspects are expressing urgent needs of the living society, but in the same way those needs are addressing a long lasting fundamental challenge which has so far not been met. Following on the patterns of economy and technology, the key is presumed to be found through a devel- mentoffeasibleconceptsforamanagement ofbothournaturalenvironmentand in one or the other way the realm of life. Although new techniques for obser- tion and analysis led to an increase of rather speci?c knowledge about particular phenomena, yet we fail now even more frequently to avoid unforeseen impli- tions and sudden changes of a situation. Obviously the improved technological tools and the assigned expectations on a management of nature still exceed our traditional scienti?c experience and accumulated competence. Earth- and Life- Sciences are nowadays exceedingly faced with the puzzling nature of an almost boundless network of relations, i. e. , the complexity of phenomena with respect to their variability. The disciplinary notations and their particular approaches arethusnolongeraccountingsu?cientlyfortherecordedcontextofphenomena, for their permanent variability and their unpredictable implications. The large environmental changes of glacial climatic cycles, for instance, demonstrate this complexity of such a typical phenomenology.

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Scale Concepts in Geosciences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 3-4
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    2. Scale Aspects of Geo-Data Sampling

      • Hans-Joachim Kümpel
      Pages 5-15

    3. Notions of Scale in Geosciences

      • Wolfgang Förstner
      Pages 17-39

    4. Complexity of Change and the Scale Concept in Earth System Modelling

      • Horst J. Neugebauer
      Pages 41-63

  3. Multi-Scale Representation of Data

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-68
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    2. Wavelet Analysis of Geoscientific Data

      • Thomas Gerstner, Hans-Peter Helfrich, Angela Kunoth
      Pages 69-88

    3. Diffusion Methods for Form Generalisation

      • Andre Braunmandl, Thomas Canarius, Hans-Peter Helfrich
      Pages 89-101

    4. Multi-Scale Aspects in the Management of Geologically Defined Geometries

      • Martin Breunig, Armin B. Cremers, Serge Shumilov, Jörg Siebeck
      Pages 103-117

  4. Scale Problems in Physical Process Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-122
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    2. Wavelet and Multigrid Methods for Convection-Diffusion Equations

      • Thomas Gerstner, Frank Kiefer, Angela Kunoth
      Pages 123-134

    3. Analytical Coupling of Scales — Transport of Water and Solutes in Porous Media

      • Thomas Canarius, Hans-Peter Helfrich, G. W. Brümmer
      Pages 135-143

    4. Upscaling of Hydrological Models by Means of Parameter Aggregation Technique

      • Bernd Diekkrüger
      Pages 145-165

    5. Parameterisation of Turbulent Transport in the Atmosphere

      • Matthias Raschendorfer, Clemens Simmer, Patrick Gross
      Pages 167-185

    6. Precipitation Dynamics of Convective Clouds

      • Günther Heinemann, Christoph Reudenbach
      Pages 186-198

    7. Sediment Transport — from Grains to Partial Differential Equations

      • Stefan Hergarten, Markus Hinterkausen, Michael Küpper
      Pages 199-213

    8. Water Uptake by Plant Roots — a Multi-Scale Approach

      • Markus Mendel, Stefan Hergarten, Horst J. Neugebauer
      Pages 215-232

  5. Scale-Related Approaches to Geo-Processes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-236
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    2. Fractals — Pretty Pictures or a Key to Understanding Earth Processes?

      • Stefan Hergarten
      Pages 237-256

    3. Fractal Variability of Drilling Profiles in the Upper Crystalline Crust

      • Sabrina Leonardi
      Pages 257-269
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Geodynamik, Universität Bonn, Bonn

    Horst J. Neugebauer

  • Meteorologisches Institut der Universität Bonn, Bonn

    Clemens Simmer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Dynamics of Multiscale Earth Systems

  • Editors: Horst J. Neugebauer, Clemens Simmer

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45256-7

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-41796-5Published: 07 April 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-45256-0Published: 26 January 2008

  • Series ISSN: 0930-0317

  • Series E-ISSN: 1613-2580

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 362

  • Topics: Geology, Geophysics/Geodesy

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