Networks from flows--from dynamics to topology.
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SUBMITTER: Molkenthin N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3927207 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb
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Networks from flows--from dynamics to topology.
Molkenthin Nora N Rehfeld Kira K Marwan Norbert N Kurths Jürgen J
Scientific reports 20140218
Complex network approaches have recently been applied to continuous spatial dynamical systems, like climate, successfully uncovering the system's interaction structure. However the relationship between the underlying atmospheric or oceanic flow's dynamics and the estimated network measures have remained largely unclear. We bridge this crucial gap in a bottom-up approach and define a continuous analytical analogue of Pearson correlation networks for advection-diffusion dynamics on a background fl ...[more]
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