Statistical mechanics and information-theoretic perspectives on complexity in the Earth system

Entropy

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 4844-4888

  Balasis, Georgios ^a   Donner, Reik V ^b,c   Potirakis, Stelios M ^d   Runge, Jakob ^b,e   Papadimitriou, Constantinos ^a,f   Daglis, Ioannis A ^a,f   Eftaxia, Konstantinos ^g   Kurths, Jürgen ^b,e,h  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^e HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Causality; Earth sciences; Entropy measures; Non extensive statistical mechanics; Symbolic dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901252857     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e15114844     Document Type: Review

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