Stochastic Climate Theory: Models and Applications Book

	Introduction	1
1	Climatic System: Data, Processes, Scales, and Deterministic Models	5
1.1	Main Components of the Climate System	6
1.2	Climate Processes	12
1.3	Scales of Climatic Variability	19
1.4	Deterministic Climate Models	28
1.5	Observational Basis for Stochastic Climate Theory	35
2	Theoretical Foundations of the Stochastic Approach to Climate Variability Studies	45
2.1	Basic Ideas and Principles of the Stochastic Climate Theory	45
2.2	Introduction to the Theory of Random Functions with Emphasis on Climate Variability	56
2.3	Estimation of Model Parameters	81
2.4	Physical Basis of the Stochastic Climate Theory	105
3	Stochastic Models of Recent Climatic Changes	125
3.1	Changes in Thick Climatic Subsystems	125
3.2	Variabilities of Thin Climatic Subsystems	186
3.3	Changes in Local and Discrete Climatic Objects	204
4	Stochastic Models for Glacial Cycles	211
4.1	Stochastic Analysis of Reconstructed Data on Glacial Cycles	212
4.2	Zero-Dimensional Model of Glacial Cycles	228
4.3	Two-Dimensional Stochastic Dynamical Model of Glacial Cycles	236
	Conclusion	261
	References	263
	Index	279