Evapotranspiration is a major component of the global water cycle and provides a critical
nexus between terrestrial water, carbon and surface energy exchanges. Evapotranspiration …

The climate is a forced, dissipative, nonlinear, complex, and heterogeneous system that is
out of thermodynamic equilibrium. The system exhibits natural variability on many scales of …

This paper addresses key implications in momentous current global energy choices–both for
social science and for society. Energy can be over-used as a lens for viewing social …

Our aim is to propose a theory which goes beyond the classical formulation of
thermodynamics. This is achieved by enlarging the space of basic independent variables …

Our time is characterized by an explosion of information and by an acceleration of
knowledge. A book cannot compete with the huge amount of data available on the Web …

The tendency of the entropy to a maximum as an isolated system is relaxed to the
equilibrium (the second law of thermodynamics) has been known since the mid-19th …

The technosphere, the interlinked set of communication, transportation, bureaucratic and
other systems that act to metabolize fossil fuels and other energy resources, is considered to …

This pioneering graduate textbook provides readers with the concepts and practical tools
required to understand the maximum entropy principle, and apply it to an understanding of …

The free energy principle (FEP) has been presented as a unified brain theory, as a general
principle for the self-organization of biological systems, and most recently as a principle for a …

The climate is a forced and dissipative nonlinear system featuring nontrivial dynamics on a
vast range of spatial and temporal scales. The understanding of the climate's structural and …