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Climate, Planetary and Evolutionary Sciences

A Machine-Generated Literature Overview

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  • A Machine-Generated Literature Overview of climate, planetary and evolutionary sciences

  • An experimental text into machine generated and curated content

  • A starting guide to Climate, Planetary and Evolutionary Sciences

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Origin and Evolution of Atmospheres

    • Guido Visconti
    Pages 1-29
  3. Downscaling, Regional Models and Impacts

    • Guido Visconti
    Pages 31-99
  4. Stochastic Weather and Climate Models

    • Guido Visconti
    Pages 131-154
  5. Progress in Climate Modeling

    • Guido Visconti
    Pages 155-192
  6. Maximum Entropy Production (MEP) and Climate

    • Guido Visconti
    Pages 193-214
  7. Geobiology

    • Guido Visconti
    Pages 317-329
  8. The Fermi Paradox

    • Guido Visconti
    Pages 331-343
  9. The Gaia Hypothesis, Evolution and Ecology

    • Guido Visconti
    Pages 345-364

About this book

This book presents the result of an innovative challenge, to create a systematic literature overview driven by machine-generated content. Questions and related keywords were prepared for the machine to query, discover, collate and structure by Artificial Intelligence (AI) clustering. The AI-based approach seemed especially suitable to provide an innovative perspective as the topics are indeed both complex, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, for example, climate, planetary and evolution sciences. Springer Nature has published much on these topics in its journals over the years, so the challenge was for the machine to identify the most relevant content and present it in a structured way that the reader would find useful. The automatically generated literature summaries in this book are intended as a springboard to further discoverability. They are particularly useful to readers with limited time, looking to learn more about the subject quickly and especially if they are new to the topics. Springer Nature seeks to support anyone who needs a fast and effective start in their content discovery journey, from the undergraduate student exploring interdisciplinary content, to Master- or PhD-thesis developing research questions, to the practitioner seeking support materials, this book can serve as an inspiration, to name a few examples. 

It is important to us as a publisher to make the advances in technology easily accessible to our authors and find new ways of AI-based author services that allow human-machine interaction to generate readable, usable, collated, research content.

Keywords

  • climate models
  • atmospheric composition
  • stochastic weather
  • maximum entropy production
  • astrobiology
  • exoplanets
  • geobiology
  • gaia
  • habitability sustainability
  • Dynamical systems and climate
  • statistical physics
  • Response Theory
  • Stochastic climate models
  • Maximum entropy production
  • Fermi paradox

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche e Chimiche, Università Degli Studi dell’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy

    Guido Visconti

About the editor

Guido Visconti is Professor Emeritus at Università dell'Aquila, Italy and a member of the National Academy of Lincei. He has held a Fulbright Fellowship (1968-69), University of Maryland (USA). NATO Fellowship, Dept of Meteorology, MIT, USA, (1976, 1977). NATO Senior Fellowship, NCAR, USA (1986 -1987). He has served as committee member of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climatic Change (IPCC) and Member of the International Ozone Commission (WMO). In his long career he was the Principal Investigator UARS Correlative Measurements Program (NASA) and Atmospheric Effects of Supersonic Airplane (AESA, NASA). He was the author of the books, Fundamentals of Physics and Chemistry of the Atmosphere, Second Edition, (2016), Problems, Philosophy and Politics of Climate Science, (2018) and Fluid dynamics (2020).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Climate, Planetary and Evolutionary Sciences

  • Book Subtitle: A Machine-Generated Literature Overview

  • Editors: Guido Visconti

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74713-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74712-1Published: 15 April 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74715-2Published: 16 April 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74713-8Published: 14 April 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 364

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Climate, general, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Astrobiology, Evolutionary Biology

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eBook USD 109.00
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  • Read on any device
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Softcover Book USD 139.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 159.99
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