Stability, complexity and the maximum dissipation conjecture

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 650, 2010, Pages 1161-1169

  Nicolis, C ^a   Nicolis, G ^b  

^a ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Entropy production; Fluctuations; Global climate; Nonlinear dynamics

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE SYSTEM; DYNAMICAL BEHAVIOURS; ENTROPY PRODUCTION; FLUCTUATIONS; GLOBAL CLIMATES; IRREVERSIBLE THERMODYNAMICS; KEY INDICATOR; NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; NONLINEAR BEHAVIOURS; RANDOM PERTURBATIONS;

DYNAMICS;

ENTROPY;

DISSIPATION; ENTROPY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PERTURBATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 77956198443     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.642     Document Type: Article

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