NG41A:
Scaling, Symmetries, Cascades, and Hazards in Complex Geodynamical Systems: Theory, Applications, and Computational Methods I


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Session ID#: 57986

Session Description:
Geophysical fields and geodynamical systems display variability over wide ranges of space and time scales. Interactions between processes operating in this wide range of scales lead to complex nonlinear behavior and to extreme events, including hazard cascades. Documenting these interactions is of vital importance in understanding the dynamics of complex systems. This session is focused on recent progresses on nonlinear techniques (e.g. scaling, (multi-) fractals, complex networks, causality and information transfer) to uncover the underlying, non-trivial symmetries, information transfer across scales, causal effects and driving forces as well as their applicationsand computational methods to data analysis and modelling of geodynamical systems and phenomena.
Primary Convener:  Daniel J M Schertzer, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées | Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Hydrology Meteorology and Complexity (HM&Co), Champs-sur-Marne, France
Conveners:  Seth Stein, Northwestern University, Earth & Planetary Sciences and Institute for Policy Research, Evanston, IL, United States, A. D. Kirwan Jr, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States and John B Rundle, University of California Davis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Daniel J M Schertzer, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Hydrologie Météorologie et Complexité (HM&Co), Champs-sur-Marne, France
Chairs:  Daniel J M Schertzer, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Hydrologie Météorologie et Complexité (HM&Co), Champs-sur-Marne, France, John B Rundle, University of California Davis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, A. D. Kirwan Jr, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States and Seth Stein, Northwestern University, Earth & Planetary Sciences and Institute for Policy Research, Evanston, IL, United States
OSPA Liaison:  A. D. Kirwan Jr, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
Co-Organized with:
Nonlinear Geophysics, and Natural Hazards

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • NH - Natural Hazards

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

4306 Multihazards [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4415 Cascades [NONLINEAR GEOPHYSICS]
4430 Complex systems [NONLINEAR GEOPHYSICS]
4440 Fractals and multifractals [NONLINEAR GEOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

On the M7.3 earthquake on 9 March 2011 in Japan and the subsequent M9.0 Tohoku earthquake on 11 March 2011 in the light of natural time (386111)
Nicholas V Sarlis, University of Athens, Athens, Greece, Panayiotis Varotsos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Solid Earth Physics Institute, Athens, Greece and Efthimios S Skordas, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Physics, Athens, Greece
Facilitating Rapid Analysis of Remotely Sensed Cascading Disasters using Science Gateways (Invited) (399704)
Andrea Donnellan, 1Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Science Division, Pasadena, CA, United States, Jay W Parker, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Gregory A Lyzenga, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Margaret T Glasscoe, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States, Chris Milliner, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Marlon Edwin Pierce, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, Jun Wang, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, United States, John B Rundle, University of California Davis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, Lisa Grant Ludwig, Univ California, Irvine, CA, United States, Michael B Heflin, Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, United States, Robert Granat, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Lindsay LaBrecque, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Evaluating fractal scaling behaviour in groundwater level fluctuations in semi-confined aquifer in Punjab, North India (350959)
Vijay P Dimri, CSIR - National Geophysical Research Institute, Fractals in Geophysics, Hyderabad, India, Sakambari Padhi, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Simanchal Padhy, CSIR - National Geophysical Research institute, Seismology, Hyderabad, India and R Rangarajan, CSIR - National Geophysical Research Institute, Groundwater Division, Hyderabad, India
Fractal topography of the intra-urban thermal landscape (358172)
Anamika Shreevastava, New York University, New York, United States, P Suresh Rao, Purdue University, Lyles School of Civil Engineering and Department of Agronomy, West Lafayette, IN, United States and Gavan Sean McGrath, Uni of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
Investigating Vertical Profile of Horizontal Wind and Energy Transport Mechanism between Planetary Boundary Layer and Cloud Level (398181)
Masih Eghdami, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Ana Paula Barros, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
Observations and Models of Oceanic Macroturbulence: Meet the New Bias, Same as the Old Bias (Invited) (398611)
Baylor Fox-Kemper1, Brodie Pearson2, Scott Bachman3, Frank Bryan4, Jenna Lynn Palmer5 and Valentin Resseguier2, (1)Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, (2)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics, Boulder, United States, (5)Brown University, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States
Applicability of Classical Turbulence Scaling Relations to Surface Drifter Observations in the Gulf of Mexico (Invited) (412231)
Andrew Poje, Staten Island, NY, United States
Weak-Turbulent Theory of Wind-Driven Sea (413481)
Vladimir E Zakharov, University of Arizona, Dept. of Math., Tucson, AZ, United States

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