related to PIK research on Time Series Analysis and Complex Networks
Recurrence plots (RPs) provide an alternative way to study various aspects of complex systems, such regime transitions, classification, detection of time-scales, synchronisation, and coupling detection (RP bibliography). Main contributions have been in bivariate extensions (cross RPs) and coupling analysis, new measures of complexity, significance assessments of the RP based results, spatial extensions, parameter selection, RPs for irregularly sampled data, or complex network based quantification.
Complex networks provide a powerful approach to investigate extended and spatio-temporal systems, such as the climate by climate networks. Moreover, they offer an alternative way for a recurrence based time-series analysis by recurrence networks.
Special problems require especially adopted methods of time-series analysis. For example, proxy records in Earth sciences are often irregularly sampled and come with uncertainties in the dating points. Approaches for considering such dating uncertainties in the subsequent analysis and methods for correlation analysis of irregularly sampled time series have been developed. Such approaches can be helpful for the reconstruction of palaeoclimate complex networks.
The study of palaeoclimate from proxy records is helpful for a better understanding of the climate system. Information based on lake sediments or speleothemes can be used to study complex interrelationships or past climate transitions. We are also participating in the coordinated scientific research in the Blessberg Cave, Thuringia.
Besides the main focus on climate related problems, recurrence properties of the cardiovascular system are studied, e.g., to early detect ventricular tachycardia or preeclampsia, or to investigate the coupling mechanisms in the cardio-respiratory system.
Further interest in life science is related to EEG analysis, aiming at the detection of event related potentials or early signatures of epileptic seizures.
Methods to investigate complexity in 3D have been applied to study structural changes in trabecular bone, such as occurring during osteoporosis or space flights.
Scientific research in caves is performed to explore and survey newly discovered cave parts, but also to collect data for the palaeoclimate studies (samples, monitoring). Cave research is focused on caves in Switzerland (research with isaak), but also in India, Caucasus, Kosovo, and Germany.
one of the first web presentations of speleology was the speleo server east
2000-2003
DFG SPP 1097: Erdmagnetische Variationen:
Nonlinear Phase and Correlation Analysis of Palaeomagnetic and Palaeoclimatic Records
2003-2005
ESA project AO-99-030:
2D and 3D Quantification of Bone Structure and its Changes in Microgravity Condition by Measures of Complexity
2005-2008
ESA project AO-2004-125:
Assessing the Influence of Microarchitecture on the Mechanical Performance of Bone and its Changes in Microgravity from in-vivo Measurements
2006-2015
DFG Graduate School GK 1364:
Shaping Earth's surface in a variable environment
2010
Volkswagen Foundation I/85 116:
International Workshop on Recent Achievements on the Study of Extreme Events
2010-2013
WGL SAW-2010: Evolving Complex Networks (ECONS) — Regional resource management under environmental and demographic change
2011-2014
DFG Graduate School GK 1539:
Sichtbarkeit und Sichtbarmachung, Hybride Formen des Bildwissens
2011-2013
DFG Research Group FOR 1380: Himalaya: Modern and Past Climates (HIMPAC):
Analysis of the dynamics of palaeo and modern climate data under consideration of dating errors focussed on climate transitions and interrelations between teleconnections and regional climate
2011-2013
DFG project KU837/34-1: Interactions and complex structures in the dynamics of changing climate: impact of tipping elements in presence and past
2011-2014
BMBF Spitzenforschung und Innovation in den Neuen Ländern: Potsdam Research Cluster for Georisk Analysis, Environmental Change and Sustainability (PROGRESS):
Extremereignisse in Geoarchiven
2013-2016
WGL SAW-2013-IZW-2: Gradual environmental change versus single catastrophe — Identifying drivers of mammalian evolution
2014-2015
DFG project MA 4759/4-1: Investigation of past and present climate dynamics and its stability by means of a spatio-temporal analysis of climate data using complex networks
since 2015
DFG Graduate School GK 2043:
Natural Hazards and Risks in a Changing World (NatRiskChange)
2016-2020
EU project QUEST (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015):
QUantitative palaeoEnvironments from SpeleoThems (QUEST)
2017-2019
DFG project 337352542:
Trends, rhythms and events in East African climate: statistical analysis of the paleoclimare records of the long sediment cores of the Chew Bahir basin
2017-2022
DFG project MA4759/8-1:
Impacts of uncertainties in climate data analyses (IUCliD): Approaches to working with measurements as a series of probability distributions
2017-2020
DFG project MA4759/9-1:
Recurrence plot analysis of regime changes in dynamical systems
since 2019
DFG project MA4759/11-1:
Nonlinear empirical mode analysis of complex systems: Development of
general approach and application in climate
since 2019
EU project TiPES:
Tipping points in the earth system
since 2020
BMBF project climXtreme:
A research network on climate change and extreme events