Nonlinear Dynamics in Geosciences

Preface.- Introducing Networks in Climate Studies.- Two Paradigms in Landscape Dynamics: Self-Similar Processes and Emergence.- Effects of Systematic and Random Errors on the Spatial Scaling Properties in Radar-Estimated Rainfall.- Nonlinear Dynamics in the Earth???s Magnetosphere.- Microseism Activity and Equilibrium Fluctuations.- An Exponential Langevin-type Model for Rainfall Exhibiting Spatial and Temporal Scaling.- Storm Tracking and Ensemble Prediction .- Towards a Nonlinear Geophysical Theory of Floods in River Networks: An Overview of 20 Years of Progress.- Investigations of Wave-induced Nonlinear Response of Minor Species with the KBM Averaging Method.- ENSO Signal Propagation Detected by Wavelet Coherence and Mean Phase Coherence Methods.- Twenty-Five Years of Nonlinearity in Oceanography from the Lagrangian Perspective.- Self-Scaling of the Statistical Properties of a Minimal Model of the Atmospheric Circulation .- Hindcast AGCM Experiments on the Predictability of Stratospheric Sudden Warming.- Self Organized Criticality and/or Low Dimensional Chaos in Second Earthquake Processes: Theory and Practice in Hellenic Region.- Analysis of Nonlinear Biophysical Time Series in Aquatic Environments: Scaling Properties and Empirical Mode Decomposition.- The Arctic Ocean as a Coupled Oscillating System to the Forced 18.6 Year Lunar Gravity Cycle.- Dynamical Synchronization of Truth and Model as an Approach to Data Assimilation, Parameter Estimation, and Model Learning.- Scale, Scaling and Multifractals in Geosciences: Twenty Years On.- Statistics of Return Intervals and Extreme Events in Long-Term Correlated Time Series.- Statistical Properties of Mid-Latitude Atmospheric Variability.- On the Spatiotemporal Variability of the Temperature Anomaly Field.- Time Evolution of??the Fractal Dimension of Electric Self-Potential Time Series.- Diffusion Entropy Analysis in Seismicity.- Snow Avalanches as a Non-Critical, Punctuated Equilibrium System.- Evidence from Wavelet Lag Coherence for Negligible Solar Forcing of Climate at Multi-year and Decadal Periods .- From Diversity to Volatility: Probability of Daily Precipitation Extremes.- Stochastic Linear Models of Nonlinear Geosystems.- Reducing Forecast Uncertainty to Understand Atmospheric Flow Transitions.- The Role of El Nino???Southern Oscillation in Regulating its Background State.- Nonlinear Dynamics of Natural Hazards .- Predicting the Multifractal Geomagnetic Field.- Index.