803547 VO Fractals in meteorology (2005S)
Fractals in meteorology
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Fr, 9:00-9:45, 2D506
Beginn: 11.3.
Beginn: 11.3.
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Last modified: Fr 31.08.2018 09:01
Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, lightning does not travel in a straight line, and earth-quakes recur not regularly. To describe the complexity of nature`s "shapes" a new geometry, the geometry of fractal shapes was developed. We touch also on connections with stochastics and chaos-theory.