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Fractal percolation exhibits a dramatic topological phase transition, changing abruptly from a dust-like set to a system spanning cluster. The transition points are unknown and difficult to estimate. In many classical percolation models the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Michael A. Klatt , Steffen Winter

Antarctic sea ice has undergone unprecedented changes in recent years, raising questions about how this key geophysical system is responding to climate change. Decades of slow expansion were replaced by a precipitous decline in 2014-2017, a…

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Observations have long associated ice streams with the presence of meltwater at the bed. More recently, theoretical models have been able to reproduce ice-stream behaviour as a consequence of the coupled dynamics of ice and subglacial…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-12-17 T. M. Kyrke-Smith , R. F. Katz , A. C. Fowler

The margins within the geographic range of species are often specific in terms of ecological and evolutionary processes, and can strongly influence the species' reaction to climate change. One of the frequently observed features at range…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-28 R. Juhász , B. Oborny

The use of probe molecules to extract the local dynamical and structural properties of complex dynamical systems is an age-old technique both in simulations and experiments. A lot of important information which is not immediately accessible…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-30 Anoop Mutneja , Smarajit Karmakar

We study continuum percolation with disks, a variant of continuum percolation in two-dimensional Euclidean space, by applying tools from topological data analysis. We interpret each realization of continuum percolation with disks as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-08 Leo Speidel , Heather A. Harrington , S. Jonathan Chapman , Mason A. Porter

It has been widely debated whether Arctic sea-ice loss can reach a tipping point beyond which a large sea-ice area disappears abruptly. The theory of dynamical systems predicts a slowing down when a system destabilises towards a tipping…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2016-01-26 Sebastian Bathiany , Bregje van der Bolt , Mark S. Williamson , Timothy M. Lenton , Marten Scheffer , Egbert van Nes , Dirk Notz

Phase-contrast microscopy is used to monitor the shapes of micron-scale fluid-phase phospholipid-bilayer vesicles in aqueous solution. At fixed temperature, each vesicle undergoes thermal shape fluctuations. We are able experimentally to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-15 H. -G. Döbereiner , E. Evans , M. Kraus , U. Seifert , M. Wortis

Self-similarity and long-range correlations are the remarkable features of the Earth's surface topography. Here we develop an approach based on percolation theory to study the geometrical features of Earth. Our analysis is based on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-02-13 Jingfang Fan , Jun Meng , Abbas Ali Saberi

Thermodynamic tools are well suited to connecting evolution of protein functionalities to mutations of amino acid sequences, especially for neuronal network structures. These tools enable one to quantify changes in modular structure and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2014-10-07 J. C. Phillips

The control of wave scattering in complex non-Hermitian settings is an exciting subject -- often challenging the creativity of researchers and stimulating the imagination of the public. Successful outcomes include invisibility cloaks,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-28 Jared Erb , Nadav Shaibe , Robert Calvo , Daniel Lathrop , Thomas Antonsen , Tsampikos Kottos , Steven M. Anlage

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) uses insights from topology to create representations of data able to capture global and local geometric and topological properties. Its methods have successfully been used to develop estimations of fractal…

The predictions of mean-field electrodynamics can now be probed using direct numerical simulations of random flows and magnetic fields. When modelling astrophysical MHD, it is important to verify that such simulations are in agreement with…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-09-12 Irina Makarenko , Paul Bushby , Andrew Fletcher , Robin Henderson , Nikolay Makarenko , Anvar Shukurov

A set of discrete individual points located in an embedding continuum space can be seen as percolating or non-percolating, depending on the radius of the discs/spheres associated with each of them. This problem is relevant in theoretical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-21 Pablo Villegas , Tommaso Gili , Andrea Gabrielli , Guido Caldarelli

One of the clearest but unresolved questions for Europa is the thickness of its icy shell. Europa's surface is resplendent with geological features that bear on this question, and ultimately on its interior, geological history, and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-05 Kelsi N. Singer , William B. McKinnon , Paul M. Schenk

This study focuses on the stratification patterns and dynamic evolution of reservoir water temperatures, aiming to estimate and reconstruct the temperature field using limited and noisy local measurement data. Due to complex measurement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Qianyu He , Huaiwei Sun , Yubo Li , Zhiwen You , Qiming Zheng , Yinghan Huang , Sipeng Zhu , Fengyu Wang

Aims. We develop an extended percolation method to allow the comparison of geometrical properties of the real cosmic web with the simulated dark matter web for an ensemble of over- and under-density systems. Methods. We scan density fields…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 J. Einasto , I. Suhhonenko , L. J. Liivamägi , M. Einasto

In this article, we considered the problem of sea ice cover is melting. Considering the `satellite passive microwave remote sensing data' as functional data, we studied daily observation of sea ice cover of each year as a smooth continuous…

Applications · Statistics 2016-10-25 Purba Das , Ananya Lahiri , Sourish Das

Understanding local currents in the North Atlantic region of the ocean is a key part of modelling heat transfer and global climate patterns. Satellites provide a surface signature of the temperature of the ocean with a high horizontal…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-10-22 Gautier Cosne , Guillaume Maze , Pierre Tandeo

Retrogressive Thaw Slumps (RTS) in Arctic regions are distinct permafrost landforms with significant environmental impacts. Mapping these RTS is crucial because their appearance serves as a clear indication of permafrost thaw. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Wenwen Li , Chia-Yu Hsu , Sizhe Wang , Zhining Gu , Yili Yang , Brendan M. Rogers , Anna Liljedahl