A preliminary investigation on the topology of Chinese climate networks

作     者：王革丽 Anastasios A Tsonis 

作者机构：Institute of Atmospheric PhysicsChinese Academy of Sciences Department of Mathematical SciencesAtmospheric Sciences GroupUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 

出 版 物：《Chinese Physics B》 (中国物理B（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2009年第18卷第11期

页      面：5091-5096页

核心收录：

学科分类：07[理学] 070601[理学-气象学] 0706[理学-大气科学] 

基　　金：Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos 40890052 and 40505018) 

主　　题：Chinese climate network complex systems small world community 

摘      要：Complex networks have been studied across many fields of science in recent years. In this paper, we give a brief introduction of networks, then follow the original works by Tsonis et al （2004, 2006） starting with data of the surface temperature from 160 Chinese weather observations to investigate the topology of Chinese climate networks. Results show that the Chinese climate network exhibits a characteristic of regular, almost fully connected networks, which means that most nodes in this case have the same number of links, and so-called super nodes with a very large number of links do not exist there. In other words, though former results show that nodes in the extratropical region provide a property of scale-free networks, they still have other different local fine structures inside. We also detect the community of the Chinese climate network by using a Bayesian technique; the effective number of communities of the Chinese climate network is about four in this network. More importantly, this technique approaches results in divisions which have connections with physics and dynamics; the division into communities may highlight the aspects of the dynamics of climate variability.