Global Climate: Current Research and Uncertainties in the Climate SystemSpringer Science & Business Media, 2002 M10 23 - 286 pages Uncertainty for Everyone The one thing that is certain about the world is that the world is uncertain. I have here, the question that apart of the matter, living matter, has to resolve in each and every one of its moments of existance. The environment of a living being is apart of the living being where it turns out, the rest of the living beings live. This is the drama of life on earth. Every living individual debates with his environment, exchanging matter, energy and information in the hope of staying alive, the same as all living beings who share that same environment. The adven ture of a living being (of all living beings ) is to maintain reasonable independ ence in face ofthe fluctuations ofuncertainty within the environment. The range of restrictions and mutual relationships is colossal. How is the tran seendental pretension of staying alive regulated? There is an equation imposed by the laws ofthermodynamics and the mathematical theory ofinformation about the interaction ofa living being with his environment which we could state like this: The complexity 01 a living individual plus his capacity for anticipation in re spect to his environment is identical to the uncertainty of the environmentplus the capacity of that living being to change the environment. |
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... ( ENSO ) , exchange huge amounts of energy . It is also the way by which small changes in solar radiation are internalized and translated into dramatic climatic episodes such as the Ice Ages . This interaction also largely determines the ...
... ( ENSO ) , exchange huge amounts of energy . It is also the way by which small changes in solar radiation are internalized and translated into dramatic climatic episodes such as the Ice Ages . This interaction also largely determines the ...
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... ENSO and NAO in monsoon dynamics . Finally , X. Rodd in Chap . 11 discusses the relations between the Tropics and the Extratropics , and analyzes how new approaches to data analysis and modeling could also be used to increase ...
... ENSO and NAO in monsoon dynamics . Finally , X. Rodd in Chap . 11 discusses the relations between the Tropics and the Extratropics , and analyzes how new approaches to data analysis and modeling could also be used to increase ...
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... and ecosystems 262 11.6 Feedbacks from the Extratropics ........... 266 11.7 Prospects for future research and the future evolution of ENSO 266 List of contributors Alverson , K. PAGES International Project Office Table of contents XV.
... and ecosystems 262 11.6 Feedbacks from the Extratropics ........... 266 11.7 Prospects for future research and the future evolution of ENSO 266 List of contributors Alverson , K. PAGES International Project Office Table of contents XV.
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... ENSO EOF EP GCM GCOS GFD GFDL GM90 Gent and McWillians 1990 Dissolved Inorganic Carbon December - January - February Season Dynamical Seasonal Prediction Deep Western Boundary Current East Atlantic Pattern East Atlantic Jet Pattern East ...
... ENSO EOF EP GCM GCOS GFD GFDL GM90 Gent and McWillians 1990 Dissolved Inorganic Carbon December - January - February Season Dynamical Seasonal Prediction Deep Western Boundary Current East Atlantic Pattern East Atlantic Jet Pattern East ...
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... ENSO Quasi - biennial band Quasi - geostrophic ENSO Quasi - quadrennial band Relaxed Arakawa - Schubert Scheme Radiative - Convective Model Second Assessment Report ( IPCC ) Scandinavian Pattern Scale Dependent Correlation Analysis Sub ...
... ENSO Quasi - biennial band Quasi - geostrophic ENSO Quasi - quadrennial band Relaxed Arakawa - Schubert Scheme Radiative - Convective Model Second Assessment Report ( IPCC ) Scandinavian Pattern Scale Dependent Correlation Analysis Sub ...
Contents
I | 3 |
II | 4 |
III | 6 |
IV | 11 |
V | 16 |
VI | 25 |
VII | 34 |
VIII | 41 |
XXXII | 102 |
XXXIII | 103 |
XXXIV | 111 |
XXXV | 124 |
XXXVI | 129 |
XXXVII | 131 |
XXXVIII | 134 |
XL | 140 |
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