Complex network approaches for climate data analysis

• Grant number: 13/23415-1
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Start date: February 11, 2014
• End date: May 10, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Electrical Engineering - Industrial Electronics, Electronic Systems and Controls
• Principal Investigator: Elbert Einstein Nehrer Macau
• Grantee: Elbert Einstein Nehrer Macau
• Visiting researcher: Yong Zou
• Visiting researcher institution: East China Normal University (ECNU), China
• Host Institution: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE). Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (Brasil). São José dos Campos , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 11/50151-0 - Dynamical phenomena in complex networks: fundamentals and applications, AP.TEM

Abstract

We will integrate some recent popular methods in the research line of nonlinear data analysis into analyzing observational data from climatology. The principal objective of this proposal is to present a novel paradigm for applying complex network approaches to quantify some new statistical aspects of time series sampled from geoscientific processes, in particular with historical archive data from Amazon region. This work will substantially enrich the existing knowledge of the climate variability in Amazon Region from a complex system's viewpoint, in an attempt to determine the nature of climate changes in the region. (AU)