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viii blems as the study of catalytic chemical reactions in the laboratory scale, quantum optics, hydrodynamic instabilities, or large scale phenomena of interest in physics, geology, atmospheric dynamics and climatology. We expect that the present Volume will acquaint researchers and advanced students in geosciences with the concepts and tools of dyna mical systems and will thus serve as a jumping off point for new developments and new points of view. Brussels, July 1986. c. Nicolis and G. Nicolis. ORGANIZING COIIM1'1'TEE Benzi R., I.B.M. Scientific Center, Via Giorgione 129, 00147 Roma, Italy. Berger A., Institut d'Astronomie et de Geophysique Georges Lemaftre, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Chemin du Cyclotron 2, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Flytzanis N., Physics Department, University of Crete, Iraklion, Crete, Greece. Ghil M., Department of Atmospheric Sciences and Institute of Geophy sics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024, U.S.A. Nicolis C" Institut d' Aeronomie SpaUale de Belgique, Avenue Circulaire 3, 1180 Bruxelles, Belgium. Nicolis G., Faculte des Sciences, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Campus Plaine, C.P. 226, Boulevard du Triomphe, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium. 50487, 28080 Velarde M.G., U.N.E.D.-Ciencias, Apdo Correos Madrid, Spain. LIST or PAB.TICIPAI1TS Andre J .C. da Cunha L.V. Centre National de Recherches Science Administrator Meteorologiques, NATO Scientific Affairs Division Avenue G. Coriolis 42 1110 Bruxelles 31057 Toulouse Cedex Belgium France Dalfes N.
List of contents
I - Dynamical Systems, Stability and Bifurcation.- Bifurcation and Stochastic Analysis of Nonlinear Systems: An Introduction.- Catastrophe Theory in Geophysics.- II - Geophysical Fluid Dynamics.- Patterns of Heat Transfer by Thermal Convection in a Rotating Fluid Subject to a Horizontal Temperature Gradient: A Summary.- Convection in Spherical Systems.- Dynamo Theory.- Nonpropagating Solitons and Edge Waves.- Universal Power Spectra for Wave Turbulence; Applications to Wind Waves and 1/f Noise.- Fluctuations and Dissipation in Problems of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics.- III - Atmospheric Dynamics.- Deterministic and Stochastic Aspects of Atmospheric Dynamics.- The Blocking Transition.- Dynamics and Statistics of Atmospheric Low Frequency Variability.- Dynamics, Statistics and Predictability of Planetary Flow Regimes.- An Analytic Approach to Atmospheric Waves in Three Dimensions.- IV - Climate Dynamics.- Nonlinear Phenomena in Climate Dynamics.- Climatic Predictability and Dynamical Systems.- Modeling the ?18 O-derived Record of Quaternary Climatic Change with Low Order Dynamical Systems.- Ice Sheet Dynamics and the Pleistocene Ice Ages.- A Relaxation Oscillator Model of the Ice Age Cycle.- Cloud-Ice-Vapor Feedbacks in a Global Climate Model.- Sea Ice-Ocean Interaction.- Some Aspects of Ocean Circulation Models.- Climate Variability: Some Results from a Simple Low-Order GCM.- Nuclear Winter: Recent Climate Model Results, Uncertainties, and Research Needs.- V - Geology.- Modeling Geochemical Self-Organization.- Nonlinear Convection Problems in Geology.- Reaction-Percolation Instability.- On Geomorphic Patterns with a Focus on Stone Circles Viewed as a Free-Convection Phenomenon.- VI - Concluding Remarks.- Low-Order Models and their Uses.
