2019/07/01 by Bernhelm Booß–Bavnbek, Booss-Bavnbek, Bernhelm, Rasmus Kristoffer Pedersen +3
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #86A10 #91B55 #92C30 #93A15 #93C70 #Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics #Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols #C.4 #FOS: Economics and business #FOS: Physical sciences #General Economics (econ.GN) #I.6 #Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena #Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS) #Primary 34E13 #Secondary 82D30
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1907.01902
openalex publication_date 2019/07/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This topic review communicates working experiences regarding interaction of a multiplicity of processes. Our experiences come from climate change modelling, materials science, cell physiology and public health, and macroeconomic modelling. We look at the astonishing advances of recent years in broad-band temporal frequency sampling, multiscale modelling and fast large-scale numerical simulation of complex systems, but also the continuing uncertainty of many science-based results. We describe and analyse properties that depend on the time scale of the measurement; structural instability; tipping points; thresholds; hysteresis; feedback mechanisms with runaways or stabilizations or delays. We point to grave disorientation in statistical sampling, the interpretation of observations and the design of control when neglecting the presence or emergence of multiple characteristic times. We explain what these working experiences can demonstrate for environmental research.