COVID-19 is currently affecting over 180 countries in the world and poses serious threats to public health as well as economic and social stability of many countries. Modeling and extrapolating in near real-time the evolution of COVID-19 epidemics is a scientific challenge, which requires a deep understanding of the factors undermining the dynamics of the …[Read More]
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NP Interviews: the newly elected NP Division President François Schmitt
Today’s NP Interviews hosts the newly elected NP Division President François Schmitt. François has a PhD degree from Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris (1993), in atmospheric turbulence, and an Habilitation degree from the same university (2001). He has stayed in Belgium during 6 years as a post-doc, working in meteorology and in fluid …[Read More]
NP Interviews: the AGU 2019 Turcotte awardee Vera Melinda Galfi
Before pursuing a scientific career, Melinda studied economics and worked in the field for several years. Her scientific career took place until now in Hamburg, Germany, where she completed both her undergraduate and graduate studies in meteorology. Melinda finished her PhD in 2018 under the supervision of Valerio Lucarini, studying extreme events in chaotic atmospheric …[Read More]
NP Division at the General Assembly 2020
Each year the European Geosciences Union organizes the largest European geosciences event which is the EGU General Assembly. It usually attracts over than 15000 scientists from all over the world, including both established researchers and early career scientists, who contribute to more than a half of the participants. It consists of several sessions (usually more …[Read More]
NP Interviews: the 2019 Lewis Fry Richardson Medallist Shaun Lovejoy
Today’s NP Interviews hosts the Lewis Fry Richardson Medallist Shaun Lovejoy. Shaun has degrees in physics from Cambridge and McGill University; he has been a McGill professor since 1985. For four decades, he has developed fractal, scaling ideas in the geosciences, contributing to advances in cascade processes, multifractals, anisotropic scale invariance, space-time multifractal modeling as …[Read More]
Welcome to the Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences Blog!
We are happy to announce that the growing Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences (NP) community has a new unifying platform where newsworthy information on different topics will be published, with the main aim to reach many scientists at a time. Thus, this is the official launch of the Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences Blog! We hope this …[Read More]