Scientific Notes

• Yanai Wave
• The climatic effect of atmospheric pressure
• Notes on The future of everything by D. Orrell
• Notes on The Idea of Teleology by Mayr (1992)
• Notes on Contenders for life at the dawn of the twenty-first century: approaches from physics, biology and engineering by Fox-Keller (2007)
• Notes and questions relative to emergence in physical systems
• Notes from Ecology, the ascendent perspective, by R. Ulanowicz
• Ecosystem diversity and health
• “An argument for indeterminism” by Karl Popper
• Notes from “Towards a Post Reductionist Science: The Open Universe” by S. Kauffman (2009)
• About predicting the future...in practice
• Notes from Causal explanations in classical and statistical thermodynamics by S. Wicken (Phil. of Science, 1981)
• Notes on “Eddy viscosity in two and three dimensions” by Kraichnan (1976)
• The limitation of the computational power of the universe
• The Fluctuation Theorem
• Randomness, complexity, reducibility and incompleteness
• Three types of system behavior (and how to describe them)
• Isopycnal version of the potential vorticity (PV) equation
• Note on WKB stretched vertical scale
• Popper as a particular case to Bayesian probability theory
• Bayes, Maximum Entropy and all that
• Notes on the design of a scientific project
• Notes on bootstrap and Monte Carlo techniques