Complexity vs Simplicity in Geophysics

Really interesting mechanistic reductionism illustrating what it means to explain phenomena scientifically. It’s all about the maths.

GeoEnergy Math



from Deacon_Information_Complexity_Depth.pdf

Here’s a breakdown from least complex to most complex

1. Say we are doing tidal analysis by fitting a model to a historical sea-level height (SLH) tidal gauge time-series. That’s essentially an effective complexity of1because it just involves fitting amplitudes and phases from known lunisolar sinusoidal tidal cycles.


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