Some Complex Challenges In Environment
Event details
| Date | 02.02.2011 |
| Hour | 12:15 |
| Speaker | Daniel Schertzer |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Environmental systems are complicated, but also complex: not only do they have a large number of components corresponding to a wide spectrum of scientific disciplines, but their nonlinear interactions generate an extreme variability over a wide range of space-time scales. This is a challenge for observations, theories, models and applications. For instance, classical environmental observables are scale sensitive, whereas the corresponding processes must be understood and represented across scales rather than at a given scale. This also points out needed changes in environmental science education.
Atmospheric dynamics, precipitations, floods, as well as city resilience, will be used to illustrate key questions, such as the determination of scaling ranges and anisotropies, quantification of intermittency and extremes.
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- General public
- Free
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- Christina Treier