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NP Interviews: the 2019 Lewis Fry Richardson Medallist Shaun Lovejoy

Tommaso Alberti October 21, 2019

Shaun Lovejoy receiving the Lewis Fry Richardson Medal at EGU2019 from the NP Division President Stéphane Vannitsem. Credits: EGU/Foto Pfluegl

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 well a ...[Read More]

Workshop report: Mathematics of the Economy and Climate

Anna von der Heydt September 9, 2019

Percentage change in regional GDP under a laissez-faire scenario in 2100. Source: http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/pctgdp1.mp4 .

Just before the summer a group of about 40 scientists gathered in an old Monastery in the Netherlands (Kontakt der Kontinenten, Soesterberg) for a rather special collaborative workshop entitled “Mathematics of the economy and climate”. Mathematicians, climate scientists and economists – a group of scientists that normally does not mix and are rather unfamiliar with each other’s researc ...[Read More]

NP Interviews: the Division President Stéphane Vannitsem

Tommaso Alberti July 25, 2019

The Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences Division President Stéphane Vannitsem.

Today’s NP Interviews hosts the Nonlinear Processes Division President Stéphane Vannitsem. Stéphane is the head of the Dynamical Meteorology and Climatology Unit of the Research division of the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, and lecturer at the Free University of Brussels. He is currently president of the Nonlinear Processes division of the European Geosciences Union and executive edit ...[Read More]

Welcome to the Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences Blog!

Tommaso Alberti July 25, 2019

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 platform could serve as a starting point to strengthen our comm ...[Read More]