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17 Entropy and Gaia: Is There a Link Between MEP and Self-Regulation in the Climate System?
The Gaia hypothesis posits that the Earth’s climate is self-regulating, while the maximum entropy production (MEP) principle suggests that the...
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Comparison of the tidal signatures in sporadic E and vertical ion convergence rate, using FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC radio occultation observations and GAIA model
Sporadic E or Es is a transient phenomenon where thin layers of enhanced electron density appear in the ionospheric E region (90–120 km altitude)....
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The Dawn of Gaia
The gravitational aggregation of dust and fragments from the solar nebula into planetesimal and Earth-size bodies has culminated in melting and...
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The Ethics of Gaia: Geoethics From an Evolutionary Perspective
In times of unprecedented ecological change led by human activities, a global ethical framework is most needed to support the rapid transformation of...
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The Living Planet
The spectacle of Life, its evolution and the transformation of its environments, led James Lovelock (Atmospheric Environment 6:579–580, 1972) to...
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14 Biotic Entropy Production and Global Atmosphere-Biosphere Interactions
Atmospheric conditions constrain biotic activity through incoming solar radiation, temperature, and soil water availability on land. At the same time...
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13 The Free-Energy Transduction and Entropy Production in Initial Photosynthetic Reaction
Initial photosynthetic reactions in bacterial photosynthesis are modeled in this chapter as transitions among discrete states of integral membrane...
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1 Entropy Production by Earth System Processes
Degradation of energy to lower temperatures and the associated production of entropy is a general direction for Earth system processes, ranging from...
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6 Cosmological and Biological Reproducibility: Limits on the Maximum Entropy Production Principle
The Maximum Entropy Production principle (MEP) seems to be restricted to reproducible dissipative structures. To apply it to cosmology and biology,...
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8 Entropy Production of Atmospheric Heat Transport
We examine the rate of entropy produced by the atmospheric general circulation and the hypothesis that it adjusts itself towards a macroscopic state...
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Materialities, Perceptions and Ethics
Ethics is often the distillation of cultural and social tradition, including religious beliefs. Prominent cultural differences are frequently due to...
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A dynamic 2DH flocculation model for coastal domains
A dynamic two-dimensional depth-averaged (2DH) parameterization for flocculation of cohesive sediments is proposed based on the kinetic model by...
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The Proserpina Principle
This book has been a journey around the world and deep into geological time to test ideas about life and soil in past cycles of global climate...
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The emergence and evolution of Earth System Science
Earth System Science (ESS) is a rapidly emerging transdisciplinary endeavour aimed at understanding the structure and functioning of the Earth as a...
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Earth Systems Science (ESS) and Systems Ecology
Earth systems science (ESS) is a science that is strongly linked to biogeochemistry, through its study of the earth systems (lithosphere,...
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Stability criteria for Bayesian calibration of reservoir sedimentation models
Modeling reservoir sedimentation is particularly challenging due to the simultaneous simulation of shallow shores, tributary deltas, and deep waters....
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Relationship between day-to-day variability of equatorial plasma bubble activity from GPS scintillation and atmospheric properties from Ground-to-topside model of Atmosphere and Ionosphere for Aeronomy (GAIA) assimilation
The relationship between day-to-day variability of equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) and the neutral atmosphere is studied. This study is based on the...
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16 Temperature, Biogenesis, and Biospheric Self-Organization
We argue that the biosphere has evolved deterministically as a selforganized system, given the initial conditions of the Sun-Earth system. With...
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From Hadean to Anthropocene—The Endless Story of a Lucky Planet
Earth’s history can be viewed as a series of processes and events that transformed a glowing molten sphere into a habitable planet. This astonishing...