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Fractal Analysis of Climate and Environmental Systems

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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
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Keywords

  • Theory and techniques in the fractal mining of big earth data
  • 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

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