Category: Earth Systems

This paper was written Axel Kleidon, P. Porada, and S. J. Schymanski and published in 2011. The abstract states: “Hydrological processes are irreversible and produce entropy. Hence, the framework of non-equilibrium thermodynamics is used here to describe them mathematically. This means flows of water are written as functions of gradients in the gravitational and chemical…

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This paper was written by Axel Kleidon and James Dyke and published in 2010. The abstract states: “The Maximum Entropy Production (MEP) principle has been remarkably successful in producing accurate predictions for non-equilibrium states. We argue that this is because the MEP principle is an effective inference procedure that produces the best predictions from the…

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