The Application of Neural Networks in the Earth System Sciences

This book introduces some applications of Computational Intelligence (CI) to problems of Earth System Science (ESS). In my opinion, the meeting of CI and ESSs is not a coincidence. There is an affinity between these two fields of science at a very deep level. Both of them use a systems approach; they see their object as a complex system of partly autonomous, evolving, and adaptive subsystems intensively interacting with each other and with their environment, which also changes due to the interaction between subsystems and due to changes of the subsystems. This deep affinity between the two fields makes the approaches and tools developed in CI well suited for solving many problems in ESSs; therefore, CI can provide adequate models for modeling subsystems of the Earth System.