Extreme Environmental Events Complexity in Forecasting and Early Warning [Hardcover]

Extreme Environmental Events is an authoritative single source for understanding and applying the basic tenets of complexity and systems theory, as well as the tools and measures for analyzing complex systems, to the prediction, monitoring, and evaluation of major natural phenomena affecting life on earth. These phenomena are often highly destructive, and include earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, climate change,, and weather. Early warning, damage, and the immediate response of human populations to these phenomena are also covered from the point of view of complexity and nonlinear systems. In 61 authoritative, state-of-the art articles, world experts in each field apply such tools and concepts as fractals, cellular automata, solitons game theory, network theory, and statistical physics to an understanding of these complex geophysical phenomena.

This book offers an authoritative single source for understanding and applying the concepts of complexity theory together with the tools and measures for analyzing complex systems, with applications spanning all fields of science and engineering.Complexity in Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Volcanoes, and Forecast.- Complexity in Human Reaction to Extreme Events.- Climate Modeling, Global Warming and Weather Prediction.

Forecasting and early warning of natural hazards has been in the news over the last several years, particularly in Japan (earthquake and tsunami early warning and forecasting after the March 2011 magnitude 9 Eastern Japan earthquake), Chile ?(tsunami warning after the February 2010 magnitude 8.8 earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Chile) and the United States (after a series of tornadoes in the Central and eastern United States and the startup of the development of a earthquake early warning system for California, Oregon and Washington).? The two volume set Extreme Environmental Events and Complexity in Forecasting and Early Warning Selelc