Instructor: Shaun Lovejoy, Rutherford Physics

Short Course (90 minutes) at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly (Monday, April 28, 2014)

Part 1

Part 2

Scale, scaling and multifractals in geophysics (4x90 minutes, U. Paris Sud, May 6, 7, 2014)

Part 1: Introduction

Part 2: Fractal sets, multifractal cascades

Part 3: Data analysis, Codimensions

Part 4: Extremes, Generalized Scale Invariance, Simulations

Multifractals and Turbulence PHYS 616 (Physics, McGill, Jan. 15- April 9, 2014), 12x2 hours

Synopsis

Useful books (incomplete)

Lecture 1, Jan. 15, 2014, Introduction: Our multifractal world part 1

Lecture 2, Jan. 22, 2014, Introduction: Our multifractal world part 2

Vortex stretching, appendix 2B: Fourier locality

Lecture 3, Jan. 29, 2014, Turbulence and spectra

List of project titles and people

Lecture 4, Feb. 5, 2014, Spectra, turbulence, fractal sets

Atmospheric turbulence: section 2.6, 2.7 of the book

Lecture 5, Feb. 12, 2014, Fractal sets, multifractal cascades

Lecture 6, Feb. 14, 2014, Multifractals: moments

Lecture 7, Feb. 19, 2014, Data analysis

Lecture 8, March 12, 2014, Multifractals: codimensions

Lecture 9, March 19, 2014, Multifractals: extremes

Lecture 10: March 26, 2014: Multifractal simulations

Lecture 11: April 4, 2014: Generalized Scale Invariance: linear

Lecture 12: April 9, 2014: Generalized Scale Invariance: nonlinear, space-time