Stochastic climate theory: models and applications/
Serguei G. Dobrovolski
- Germany: Springer, 2000.
- xiii, 282 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
1. Climatic System: Data, Processes, Scales, and Deterministic Models -- 1.1. Main Components of the Climate System -- 1.2. Climate Processes -- 1.3. Scales of Climatic Variability -- 1.4. Deterministic Climate Models -- 1.5. Observational Basis for Stochastic Climate Theory -- 2. Theoretical Foundations of the Stochastic Approach to Climate Variability Studies -- 2.1. Basic Ideas and Principles of the Stochastic Climate Theory -- 2.2. Introduction to the Theory of Random Functions with Emphasis on Climate Variability -- 2.3. Estimation of Model Parameters -- 2.4. Physical Basis of the Stochastic Climate Theory -- 3. Stochastic Models of Recent Climatic Changes -- 3.1. Changes in Thick Climatic Subsystems -- 3.2. Variabilities of Thin Climatic Subsystems -- 3.3. Changes in Local and Discrete Climatic Objects -- 4. Stochastic Models for Glacial Cycles -- 4.1. Stochastic Analysis of Reconstructed Data on Glacial Cycles -- 4.2. Zero-Dimensional Model of Glacial Cycles -- 4.3. Two-Dimensional Stochastic Dynamical Model of Glacial Cycles.