A timely textbook aimed at students and researchers in mathematics and statistics who are interested in current issues of climate science, as well as at climate scientists who wish to become familiar with qualitative and quantitative methods of mathematics and statistics.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Climate and mathematics; 2. Earth's energy budget; 3. Oceans and climate; 4. Dynamical systems; 5. Bifurcation theory; 6. Stommel's box model; 7. Lorenz equations; 8. Climate and statistics; 9. Regression analysis; 10. Mauna Loa CO2 data; 11. Fourier transforms; 12. Zonal energy budget; 13. Atmosphere and climate; 14. Hydrodynamics; 15. Climate models; 16. El Niño-southern oscillation; 17. Cryosphere and climate; 18. Biogeochemistry; 19. Extreme events; 20. Data assimilation; Appendix A. Units and symbols; Appendix B. Glossary; Appendix C. MATLAB codes.
