Fractal Analysis of Climate and Environmental Systems
A special issue of Fractal and Fractional (ISSN 2504-3110). This special issue belongs to the section "Complexity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (16 February 2024) | Viewed by 1725
Special Issue Editors
Interests: big data; fractals; climate change; environmental evolution
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Interests: harmonic analysis on fractals; Laplacians on fractals; Brownian motion on fractals; geometry of fractals; iterated function systems; fractal stochastic processes; stochastic analysis; applications to physics; diffusion on fractals
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Interests: statistical models; climate change; mathematical biology; marine ecosystem
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The large-scale impacts of small-scale fluctuations in climate and environmental systems are often underestimated. The well-established butterfly effect has demonstrated that the flapping of a butterfly's wings in one part of the world can cause a hurricane on the other side of the globe. Fractal analysis can extract long-term persistence and self-similarity patterns within complex climate and environmental systems over a wide range of size, spatial, and temporal scales. These fractal features can help to advance our understanding of environmental processes and have vital implications for climate simulation and prediction. In this Special Issue, we aim to collect recent results reflecting the development and application of monofractal/multifractal techniques in order to analyze, mine, diagnose, simulate and predict climate and environmental systems.
Prof. Dr. Zhihua Zhang
Prof. Dr. Palle Jorgensen
Prof. Dr. M. James C. Crabbe
Guest Editors
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Keywords
fractal geometry of nature, including river, coastline, cloud, mountain and sea waves;
multiscale fractal features of environmental processes;
fractal structure and the butterfly effect in climate change;
fractal prediction models of extreme climates and natural disasters;
fractal growth and urban planning;
fractal-like patterns of sustainability
