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  Statistical physics approaches to the complex Earth system

Fan, J., Meng, J., Ludescher, J., Chen, X., Ashkenazy, Y., Kurths, J., Havlin, S., Schellnhuber, H. J. (2021): Statistical physics approaches to the complex Earth system. - Physics Reports, 896, 1-84.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physrep.2020.09.005

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Fan, Jingfang1, Author              
Meng, Jun1, Author              
Ludescher, Josef1, Author              
Chen, Xiaosong2, Author
Ashkenazy, Yosef 2, Author
Kurths, Jürgen1, Author              
Havlin, Shlomo2, Author
Schellnhuber, Hans Joachim1, Author              
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1Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, ou_persistent13              
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 Abstract: Global warming, extreme climate events, earthquakes and their accompanying socioeconomic disasters pose significant risks to humanity. Yet due to the nonlinear feedbacks, multiple interactions and complex structures of the Earth system, the understanding and, in particular, the prediction of such disruptive events represent formidable challenges to both scientific and policy communities. During the past years, the emergence and evolution of Earth system science has attracted much attention and produced new concepts and frameworks. Especially, novel statistical physics and complex networks-based techniques have been developed and implemented to substantially advance our knowledge of the Earth system, including climate extreme events, earthquakes and geological relief features, leading to substantially improved predictive performances. We present here a comprehensive review on the recent scientific progress in the development and application of how combined statistical physics and complex systems science approaches such as critical phenomena, network theory, percolation, tipping points analysis, and entropy can be applied to complex Earth systems. Notably, these integrating tools and approaches provide new insights and perspectives for understanding the dynamics of the Earth systems. The overall aim of this review is to offer readers the knowledge on how statistical physics concepts and theories can be useful in the field of Earth system science.

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 Dates: 2020-09-052020-09-232020-10-032021-02-15
 Publication Status: Finally published
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 Rev. Type: Peer
 Identifiers: arXiv: 2009.04918v1
DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2020.09.005
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PIKDOMAIN: RD1 - Earth System Analysis
PIKDOMAIN: RD4 - Complexity Science
PIKDOMAIN: Director Emeritus / Executive Staff / Science & Society
Research topic keyword: Complex Networks
Research topic keyword: Atmosphere
Research topic keyword: Climate impacts
Model / method: Nonlinear Data Analysis
Regional keyword: Global
Organisational keyword: RD1 - Earth System Analysis
Organisational keyword: Director Emeritus Schellnhuber
Organisational keyword: RD4 - Complexity Science
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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 896 Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 1 - 84 Identifier: Other: Elsevier
Other: 1873-6270
ISSN: 0370-1573
CoNE: https://publications.pik-potsdam.de/cone/journals/resource/physics-reports
Publisher: Elsevier