Polyadic Dynamic Nexus among Complex Socio-Environmental Systems: from Earth System Dynamics to Sustainable Development.

Investigating the synchrony and interdependency of heavy rainfall occurrences is crucial to understand the underlying physical mechanisms and reduce physical and economic damages by improved forecasting strategies. In this context, studies utilizing functional network representations have recently contributed to significant advances in the understanding and prediction of extreme weather events.To thoroughly expand on previous works employing the latter framework to the East Asian Summer Monsoon (EASM) system, we focus here on changes in the spatial organization of synchronous heavy precipitation events across the monsoon season (April to August) by studying the temporal evolution of corresponding network characteristics in terms of a sliding window approach. Specifically, we utilize functional climate networks together with event coincidence analysis for identifying and characterizing synchronous activity from daily rainfall estimates with a spatial resolution of 0.25&#176; between 1998 and 2018. Our results demonstrate that the formation of the Baiu front as a main feature of the EASM is reflected by a double-band structure of synchronous heavy rainfall with two centers north and south of the front. Although the two separated bands are strongly related to either low- or high-level winds which are commonly assumed to be independent, we provide evidence that it is rather their mutual interconnectivity that changes during the different phases of the EASM season in a characteristic way.Our findings shed some new light on the interplay between tropical and extratropical factors controlling the EASM intraseasonal evolution, which could potentially help improving future forecasts of the Baiu onset in different regions of East Asia.&#160;Further details: F. Wolf, U. Ozturk, K. Cheung, R.V. Donner: Spatiotemporal patterns of synchronous heavy rainfall events in East Asia during the Baiu season. Earth System Dynamics (in review). Discussion Paper: Earth System Dynamics Discussions, (2020)

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KR08 Achieving Sustainable Development in Southern California: Collaborative Learning through System Dynamics Modeling

INCOSE International Symposium ◽

10.1002/j.2334-5837.2008.tb00894.x ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 1483-1497

Author(s):

Raymond Madachy ◽

Benjamin Haas ◽

Hilary Bradbury ◽

Josh Newell ◽

Mansour Rahimi ◽

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Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Collaborative Learning ◽

System Dynamics ◽

Southern California ◽

System Dynamics Modeling ◽

Dynamics Modeling

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Tandem-L: And innovative interferometric and polarimetric SAR mission to monitor earth system dynamics with high resolution

2010 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium ◽

10.1109/igarss.2010.5650322 ◽

2010 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

G. Krieger ◽

I. Hajnsek ◽

K. Papathanassiou ◽

M. Eineder ◽

M. Younis ◽

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Keyword(s):

High Resolution ◽

System Dynamics ◽

Earth System ◽

Polarimetric Sar

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System Dynamics Simulation and Adjustment on Coal Resource Utilization Based on Circular Economy

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.524-527.3190 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 524-527 ◽

pp. 3190-3201

Author(s):

Yan Hong Hao ◽

Ling Mei Wang ◽

Li Xia Qiu

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

System Dynamics ◽

Resource Utilization ◽

Circular Economy ◽

Waste Recycling ◽

Added Value ◽

Dynamics Simulation ◽

Utilization Rate ◽

Recycling Rate ◽

Coal Resource

Coal resource utilization system, based on circular economy, is an opening, complex and time-varying system. It composes of subsystems such as industry, population, economy and environment etc. Taking the industry subsystem as prime object, this paper builds its system dynamics model adopting the system dynamics method based on full life cycle. The adjustment parameters such as utilization rate of by-product of mining, the proportion of coal use in each industry and waste recycling rate etc. were confirmed. As a case of coal utilization system being designed, thirteen development projects belong to two types of scenarios were run on the model. The efficacy coefficient method was applied to analyze the simulation results and determine the comparatively best project of coal resource utilization system for the first time. The results indicate that the C4 among them are the best project comparatively, its waste emission is the least, and the benefits of economy, environment and society are the maximum. Research shows that extending industrial chain, increasing production proportion of high added-value product and raising waste recycling rate are beneficial to decrease coal-mining quantity for unit output value, protect coal resource and achieve sustainable development, namely that adopting circular economy development pattern is undoubtedly worthy of advocating for sustainable development of economy, environment and society.

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